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Article: The Last Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency.(Brief Article)
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- Columbia Journalism Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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THE LAST EDITOR: HOW I SAVED THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE WASHINGTON POST, AND THE LOS ANGELES TIMES FROM DULLNESS AND COMPLACENCY By Jim Bellows Andrews McMeel Publishing 349 pp. $28.95
THE LAST EDITOR: THE JIM BELLOWS STORY Produced and directed by Steven Latham and Christopher Carson
The book: Among New York journalists, Jim Bellows is remembered as the editor of the Herald Tribune in its last glittering phase in the 1960s, when it served as a platform for what Tom Wolfe dubbed the "New Journalism." In this genial memoir, Bellows tells how he made a career of persuading dying newspapers to shake their bones one last time--not just the Trib but the ...