James Bellows, newspaper editor for a number of the scrappy underdogs
including the New York Herald Tribune in its final days (``Who says a
good newspaper has to be dull?''), the Washington Star, and the Los
Angeles Herald Examiner, has reached his Thirty.
Extra World News Now connection: the Trib in its later days also had
this sports guy name of Dick Schaap who did some interesting reporting
too. Also the modern newspaper style where you don't have fourteen
narrow ribbons of text that barely reach out into two-column headlines
except when Japan surrenders but instead have graphically appealing
pages often with complete stories on them is largely attributable to
his influence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/business/media/07bellows.html?_r=1
> James Bellows, 86, Newspaper Editor Who Promoted New Journalism, Dies
> By DENNIS HEVESI
> Published: March 7, 2009
> James G. Bellows, whose insistence on stylish writing and bold,
> clean graphics promoted the New Journalism movement while he was the
> editor of three major newspapers, including The New York Herald
> Tribune, died Friday. He was 86 and lived in Los Angeles.
>
> His death, at an assisted-living facility, was caused by Alzheimer’s
> disease, said his wife, Keven.
> In a 34-year career at eight newspapers, Mr. Bellows — a scrappy,
> intense man with an underdog’s self-image — took pride in remolding
> what he conceded were the No. 2 papers in town. Besides The Herald
> Tribune (in the shadow of The New York Times), he was the top editor
> at The Washington Star (second to The Washington Post) and The Los
> Angeles Herald Examiner (behind The Los Angeles Times).
>
> Mr. Bellows made perhaps his most significant mark in New York, at
> “The Trib.” He was in his third year at the paper in 1963 when he
> hired Clay Felker, a former features editor for Esquire magazine,
> and told him to start planning a new Sunday supplement. First
> appearing in 1964 and called New York, the supplement outlived the
> newspaper and became New York magazine.
>
> With Mr. Bellows’s support, Mr. Felker, who died last year, embraced
> the use of novelistic techniques to give reporting new layers of
> emotional depth. New Journalism’s admirers — and there were
> detractors — believed that it presented the news more truthfully
> than traditional objective reporting.
>
> Under Mr. Bellows, blossoming writers like Tom Wolfe, Jimmy Breslin
> and Judith Crist were given free rein. Mr. Bellows was the prime
> mover behind “City in Crisis,” an influential Herald Tribune series
> in 1965 that, employing New Journalism techniques, examined poverty,
> substandard schools, rundown housing and injustice in the court
> system.
>
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