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If it Ain't Broke, Break it
Donna Lampkin Stephens
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Description for If it Ain't Broke, Break it
Paperback. Based on the author's dissertation (Ph.D.--University of Southern Mississippi, 2012). Num Pages: 300 pages, 15 images. BIC Classification: 1KBBSR; 3JJ; DNJ; JFD; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
The Arkansas Gazette, under the independent local ownership of the Heiskell/Patterson family, was one of the most honoured newspapers of twentieth-century American journalism, winning two Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of the Little Rock Central Crisis. But wounds from a fierce newspaper war against another local owner—Walter Hussman and his Arkansas Democrat—combined with changing economic realities, led to the family’s decision to sell to the Gannett Corporation in 1986.
Whereas the Heiskell/Patterson family had been committed to quality journalism, Gannett was focused on the bottom line. The corporation shifted the Gazette’s editorial focus from giving readers what they needed ... Read more
The Arkansas Gazette, under the independent local ownership of the Heiskell/Patterson family, was one of the most honoured newspapers of twentieth-century American journalism, winning two Pulitzer Prizes for its coverage of the Little Rock Central Crisis. But wounds from a fierce newspaper war against another local owner—Walter Hussman and his Arkansas Democrat—combined with changing economic realities, led to the family’s decision to sell to the Gannett Corporation in 1986.
Whereas the Heiskell/Patterson family had been committed to quality journalism, Gannett was focused on the bottom line. The corporation shifted the Gazette’s editorial focus from giving readers what they needed ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Fayetteville, United States
ISBN
9781557288141
SKU
V9781557288141
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99-15
About Donna Lampkin Stephens
Donna Lampkin Stephens worked at the Arkansas Gazette for six years, USA, leaving when the company closed. She is now professor of journalism at the University of Central Arkansas, USA and the producer of the films The Old Gray Lady: Arkansas’s First Newspaper and The Crisis Mr. Faubus Made: The Role of the Arkansas Gazette in the Central High Crisis. ... Read more
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