A Sacred Trust: Nelson Poynter and the St. Petersburg Times
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (750 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813012341 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 409 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly Poynter (1903-1978) was raised in an Indiana newspaper-owning family, attended the state's university and Yale and worked for a number of papers before becoming owner of the St. Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. He practiced his credo that participation in the media is a trust and privilege with obligations, and under him the Times won Pulitzer Prizes in 1964 and 1967. As University of Florida journalism professor Pierce shows, Poynter blended principles and pragmatism to become a tough idealist. As a newspaper owner, he was an innovator, introducing departmentalization in areas like business, religion and zoned editions. A liberal, he retained his usually Democratic political loyalties in the midst of ultraconservative St. Petersburg. . Photos. Although padded with excessive information about tangential individuals, this biography does justice to a significant contributor to 20th-century journalism. Petersburg Times in 1938
"Enjoyable read." according to RJB. I worked for the Times in the 70's as an advertising representative. I admired Poynter's journalistic values and leadership in product development. He set the standard for me. Now that I've worked at different organizations and newspapers, this was a highly interesting read.. Great Book A very entertaining and insightful look at the history of the St Petersburg Times and The life of the driving force behind the Times emergence into one of the most respected daily newspapers in the country.
The Times gave its readers what it thought was good for them, whether they liked it or not. His will set in motion a unique experiment in U.S. Any corporate history is a suspicious undertaking, and the author writes in the preface that he was wary at the outset, recognizing that the Times's extraordinary story had taken on mythical dimensions as told by true believers among its executives. The book is nevertheless as objective as biography can be. As a result of Poynter's obsessive demands, the St. One of the country's most respected newspapers developed in tandem with the sometimes paradoxical life of Nelson Poynter, its owner for three decades until his death in 1978. This procedure left ownership of the paper to an educational institute but gave total control to a series of chief executives, each of whom would choose a successor. Equally paradoxical was Poynter's legacy. It exhorted its readers to change their minds on gun control, Contra aid, and capital punishment. In the end, though, it is a story of human beings, some brilliant, some obsessed, all with limitations, (who) somehowworked together to fashion a newspaper unlike any other.. journalism management that made public service, not money-making, the movin