Evening Newspaper Research Articles

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This article aims to illuminate certain cultural aspects of the work of an evening newspaper (working style, ways of thinking, assumptions about the business, its objectives, perceptions of the readership) as well as how communication in group situations contributes to the social construction of organizations in terms of objectives, meaning and style. The paper will also address the issues of play, emotions and pleasure on work. It is argued that a situational focus, when studying organizations and other social phenomena, provides a less constrained understanding of the object than predominant systemic approaches. The situation, as studied and discussed here, is a monthly meeting between managers and news bill editors of an evening newspaper where sales and the content of news bills are evaluated. It is concluded that, while the premise for the meeting (the casual relation between sales and news bill layout) guides the conversation, the meeting primarily operates as an emotional arena where excitement and pleasure are produced under game-like circumstances. This allows the participants to address, in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, questions such as:Who are we? How do we look upon ourselves? Who are our customers? What ’needs’ shall we satisify? What is important and good? What is central? How do we work? How do we think about certain things?While some answers are provided and reinforced, the main outcome of the meeting is the possibility, however restricted, to pose these questions and play with them. Thus, the participants manage to establish a zone with considerable degrees of freedom; free from committments but not free from remainders of who they are or ought to be.

Saint Weidmann

Saint Weidmann Philip Watts E UGÈNE WEIDMANN, the author of six dramatic murders in Paris in 1937, first appears to us on the opening page of Genet’s Notre-Dame-des-Fleurs, culled by the author from the front page of a Parisian daily newspaper. From this liminal position in Genet’s first novel, Weidmann was to remain an emblematic figure in the gallery of criminals whose exploits Genet glorified throughout his work.1 Weid­ mann is also a transitional figure, a flesh and blood assassin whose pres­ ence in Genet’s text permits a passage from the world of newspaper prose and public figures to Genet’s private and poetic gallery of criminal saints. The demarcation between a public prose on the one hand, and Genet’s writing on the other is not as clear as it may seem, however. When Genet turns to Weidmann as what we might call a model criminal he is selecting a celebrity felon who had, with his six murders, violated the laws of the same bourgeois society that had imprisoned the author. More than this, however, in Weidmann, Genet has also found a figure who, through his own self-fashioning and through the writings of com­ mentators at the time, has already crossed the line from ordinary assassin to criminal saint and literary artifact. Weidmann, more than any other criminal of his time, had become the subject of a literary gaze, his exploits and his physical features described and aestheticized by writers as varied as Bernanos, Geo London, Janet Flanner and Colette. Without discounting the importance for Genet of a source such as the popular magazine Détective, which ran a special issue on the killer in 1937, we might consider that Genet turned to Weidmann, not only because of his status as a criminal, but precisely because he was, from the day of his arrest, marked by terms that Genet found in the papers and would re­ cycle in his novel. By the time Genet completed his portrait of Weidmann, discursive practice around the celebrated trial had already turned the felon into an aestheticized criminal dandy and a quasi-literary figure.2One of the cen­ tral aspects of the case was, of course, Weidmann’s German nationality. The mounting tensions between France and Nazi Germany infused the case with nationalist fervor and the popular press regularly played this cord, calling Weidmann a pure product of Nazi propaganda and com­ Vol. XXXV, No. 1 11 L ’E sprit C réateur paring him to a series of other monstrous criminals, all German. Some investigators even suspected Weidmann of being a Nazi agent acting under the direct orders of the Gestapo. German papers, for their part, apparently fearing precisely this type of comparison, hardly mentioned Weidmann and his crimes at all (Colombani 244). At the same time, how­ ever, there developed around the assassin a religious aura that bordered, in the eyes of some commentators, on saintliness. Shortly after Weidmann ’s arrest, for example, Georges Bernanos, upon seeing a picture of the killer in an evening newspaper, wrote to Weidmann’s attorney Renée Jardin: Il me semble que, passé un certain degré dans l’horreur, le crime se rapproche de l’extrême misère aussi incompréhensible, aussi mystérieux qu’elle. L’une et l’autre mettent une créature humaine hors et comme au-delà de la vie. J ’ignore tout du misérable que vous assistez. Mais il est impossible de regarder sans une espèce de terreur religieuse les admirables photos de Paris-Soir.3 Even if Bernanos was predisposed to seeing the saint in every sinner, he was not alone in his assessment. Weidmann himself participated in the process of sanctification, as, during his last weeks in prison, he took to praying incessantly and began to read L ’Imitation de Jésus-Christ, a 15th-century pious text that had known a resurgence of interest among artists and intellectuals at the end of the 19th century. The day of Weid­ mann’s execution one defense attorney stuffed medallions of the Virgin into his pocket and another, noting that the killer took communion shortly before being executed...

Remembering Writing, Remembering Reading

woman born in a Wisconsin mill town in 1968 said her earliest memory of writing ?A was making marks and scratches on the door of a bedroom she shared with four sisters. She did it, she said, Because I wanted my mom's attention. She was constantly reading, and I think I wanted her to see my writing. Another young Wisconsin woman, raised as an adopted daughter on a small and sometimes struggling dairy farm, recalled picking up the evening newspaper to read and finding her father's budget calculations penciled all over the margins. A third woman of similar age, raised in the suburbs of Chicago, remembered during a visit to an aunt's house secretly taking from her mother's purse an envelope on which her mother's signature was written. Alone, she began to copy the signature, trying desperately not to get caught. She was, in fact, discovered by family members. But, she said, Instead of being punished for practicing my art of forgery, my beautiful and skillful penmanship was celebrated.

Obtaining Outpatient Referrals for Clinical Research

Two methods of recruiting patients with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) were compared. One hundred general practitioners in the immediate neighbourhood of a major urban hospital were approached for referrals, and an article on generalised anxiety asking for volunteers was placed in the evening newspaper. The former resulted in ten doctor-initiated referrals, two of whom fulfilled DSM-III criteria for GAD. The latter resulted in over 500 volunteers. In a random selection of 136 volunteers who secured their doctors' approval, 56 fulfilled GAD criteria. The majority of the remainder had a depressive illness. The newspaper article was more economical of researchers' time and more successful in finding suitable subjects than directly approaching general practitioners.

Marketing Evening Newspapers: An Analysis

The Times of India group launched a Hindi evening newspaper, Sandhya Samachar Seva from Lucknow in October 1984. It was discontinued in February 1987, after nearly two and a half years. Chahal and Kinra analyse the concept of the Sandhya Samachar Seva based on a survey of a small number of literate commuters, content analysis of issue samples of the newspaper, and its revenues and costs. The authors identify the importance of developing a marketable concept viewing the newspaper as a product and developing it from the concerns of its readers and advertisers.

TV News Viewing and the Decline of the Afternoon Newspaper

Viewing television news programs is frequently blamed for the decline of the afternoon newspaper. This study compared Nielsen ratings with newspaper circulation figures to determine if there is a relationship between the presence of an evening newspaper and highly rated newscasts. No relationship was found. However, some significant variations were found between market size and location, and the ratings for local and network newscasts.

An adventure during the thaw: The evening newspaperRigas Balss—Personal experiences 1957–1971

An adventure during the thaw: The evening newspaper<i>Rigas Balss</i>—Personal experiences 1957–1971

Tales from a Greek Island (review)

Reviews 151 to appear but it seems unlikely that they will, at least not in the foreseeable future. So, once again (as with the 'Apanda of Palamás) we are dealing with an initiative that is at once exhaustive and frustrating. A rudimentary index of persons, places, and works— but not of subjects—is some consolation and the chronological and other tables at the end help to provide an overview. There is also an introductory note on the philological methods employed. What remains are the letters themselves. Ranging in length from three words to over three thousand, in tone from vituperative to playful, they bring us into immediate contact with the first and second generations of demoticism's leadership, providing a group portrait of devoted people who come alive on the page precisely because alongside their dedication to the Idea appear moments of irritation, fatigue, and egotism. Although the most domineering personality is clearly Psiháris's, the central figure of this volume is the wealthy businessman Pállis, who for decades aided other demoticists both morally and materially from his base in Liverpool where, after his evening newspaper and his nap from fatigue, he worked each night from nine to twelve (plus all day Sunday) for the Idea. Peter Bien Dartmouth College Alexandros Papadiamantis, Tales from a Greek Island, translated with introduction and notes by Elizabeth Constantinides. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 1987. Pp. xxiii + 176. $16.95. Tales from a Greek Island contains twelve short stories in English translation preceded by an informative introduction and followed by brief, helpful notes. These notes are gathered at the end of the book and are not signalled by number in the text so that the reader is not distracted from the text. The selection of stories is judicious, twelve of the approximately 180 the author wrote. Murderess has been translated, and the inclusion of Βαϕδιάνος στα σπόϕκα, though well worth reading, would have unbalanced the volume because of its length. AU the stories are set on an island, Skiáthos, hence the title. For the most part, however, they also concern domestic life, and more often than not depict various aspects of what I view as the unsatisfactory role of women 152 Reviews in family and society. Not all the stories are strong, but several, notably "Civilization in the Village" and "A Dream among the Waters," are fine portrayals of life and character. While a brief inspection of stories other than those included here reveals other criteria which one might have used for selection, (for instance, those involving school teachers), such criteria would not have produced a better collection of stories. Papadiamantis was not one for plot as such, and not all the slices of life he serves prove tasty. Constantinides has done well to concentrate Papadiamantis and our attention. The translation for the most part reads well and will not put off the English-speaking reader. There are points at which I would have chosen a different English locution, but I cannot guarantee that I would have chosen better. Weakest of course are the conversations, for here Constantinides must grapple with the inevitable idioms and conversational short-cuts of ordinary discourse. No one deals adequately with the Greek habit—quite un-Anglo-Saxon—of imploring various divinities more or less pro forma and referring to one's self and others as "unfortunate" or "unhappy." Greeks are different, and the difference, if preserved, can distract. If ironed out, one loses the Greekness. An added difficulty stems from the author himself. Papadiamantis frequently inserts conversations unnecessarily and in part to show off the local idiom (cf. the children's report on p. 35 of "The Homesick Wife"). The translation is accurate. Generally when Constantinides diverges from the literal the result is as good or better than the literal would have been. In "Civilization in the Village", however, I detected errors of a distinctly minor sort, some of which may result from the use of different editions. On p. 72 (bottom) the sentence should read: "the damned woman didn't tell me;" p. 73 (middle) the doctor was nearing forty; in the middle of p. 75 "all of this I had lost earlier on" is...

The English provincial evening newspaper and its library: a view from the wapentakes1

The scarce literature on news libraries has not done sufficient justice to the British provincial newspaper, of which there are many more than nationals, and wherein there are problems, solutions, and attitudes worthy of professional interest. The article presents differences between the national and the provincial press. It demonstrates how these are reflected by the provincial readers and their relationships with the newspaper and its library, and in turn how the library's cuttings files reflect the information interests of a local community. Some attention is paid to the legal implications of publicly accessible files. The existence of two newly formed groups of newspaper librarians is noted.

How I run Radio CX-30

Radio CX-30 is a small, independent radio station in a country ruled by the military; its director explains how he and his station have managed to survive. Plaza Independencia is at the very heart of Montevideo, Uruguay's capital on the Rio de la Plata. Its buildings are symbolic of both the country's past and what has happened during the past decade of military rule. In the centre of the square is a statue to General Artigas, a hero of the fight for liberation from Spain in the nineteenth century, who put forward revolutionary land reform proposals. He died a pauper in exile. Opposite is the one-storey Presidential Palace, now in the shadow of a ten-storey military headquarters under construction for the past few years, but still unfinished. The other side of the square is dominated by Montevideo's traditional luxury hotel, the Victoria Plaza Hotel. This too has changed hands in recent times, and now belongs to the South-Korean inspired Unification Church (the ‘Moonies’) who bought it in 1982. To make their financial dealings simpler, they bought a majority shareholding in the Banco de Credito, Uruguay's third largest banking group. They also set up an evening newspaper Ultimas Noticias, run by the former secretary of the armed forces' information services. At one end of the Plaza Independencia is the arch leading to the spur of land which comprises the old city and the port. These were sealed off in June 1984 when a leading political exile, Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, returned from eleven years abroad after being elected as the Blanco party presidential candidate for controlled elections which the present military-backed government has called for November, after all their previous plans for continuing their own rule met with steadfast opposition from the Uruguayans. The radio station which has been prominent in giving a voice to that opposition is housed at the opposite end of the square, in the Palacio Salvo, a piece of grandiose Spanish architecture which somehow suffered a mid-century continental drift and found itself on the far side of the South Atlantic rather than in Barcelona. Radio CX-30 occupies the second floor of the rambling building. The defiant stance it has adopted towards the military government, particularly since 1980, has made it very popular, and its entrance is thronged constantly with people hoping to get their complaints heard, or to talk with its director, German Araujo. He is a small man with aquiline features and seemingly boundless energy. Appointed to head the radio in 1973, his personal prestige has grown with its popularity, and reached a high point last December when he embarked on a hunger strike in protest at the government's closure and occupation of the radio.

Judy Blume as Archie Bunker

Judy Blume as Archie Bunker Jill P. May If you were to ask, "What's the difference between a children's book written by Lloyd Alexander and one written by Judy Blume" I might ask you, "What's the difference between the cartoon page of the local paper and the editorial page in the New York Times?" Each has a real function in our world; some would say that we couldn't do without either one. When I sit down to read the evening newspaper I usually read the comics first. After all, I've already done my serious thinking. What I really want to do is relax, and the best way to relax is to laugh at my own human failings. There they are, all ready for me to see. I can laugh at Hi and Lois because they seem to be facing the everyday problems that I sometimes face myself, whether it's raking the leaves, balancing the check book, or deciding who handles the children's schedules on Saturday. I laugh at their problems and their inane solutions because they remind me that I'm not the only one who pretends that silly solutions are quite sensible. I do not, however, take the comics seriously. I simply enjoy a familiar situation without feeling a need to reflect upon my behavior or to change my attitudes. A youngster choosing Judy Blume is choosing what Booklist once called the "good read," the contemporary story which shows her (or him) that others worry about physical development, family values, and peer acceptance. The young reader can laugh at the main character's inadequacies while at the same time acknowledging that this is an experience shared by many youngsters in that age group. Most children do not, however, take these books seriously. They are simply enjoying a familiar scene without experiencing pressure to change. When they meet their friends they will ask, "Have your read Judy Blume's new book?" They might even giggle over scenes that deal with subjects not often discussed by adults with children. But they won't sit down for a long talk about what Judy Blume really means. The book doesn't deserve that kind of consideration. When I turn to the editorial page I am looking for "guiding messages." I hope that the authors will give me insight that can help me sort out my uneasy feelings about the world as it is, compared to my projections of the world "as it should be." And so, I turn to Ellen Goodman, not because she tells me about solutions to great international crises or even because she suggests that government would be better run by women. Ellen Goodman reaches to my soul. She tells me about the injustices that I (or my daughters) will face in the daily world; she shows me the unsophisticated smugness that comes from supporting causes without facing individual human needs; she shows me that life in its day-to-day routine could be more ideal. When children turn to Lloyd Alexander they are turning to their guiding light. They do not expect that he will relate to their mundane existence as fifth, or sixth, or seventh grade students. They do not see his books as ones that will help them to understand the hard facts of being laughed at in class or to face the inevitabilities of physical maturity. And there are no juicy passages in his books that are worth sharing simply because "the elders wouldn't approve." Lloyd Alexander reaches for their souls. He tells them about the injustices that young heroes must struggle against; he shows them that truth, honesty and courage are worthwhile virtues; he shows them that to be a hero one must first be a human. And, in the end, he shows us a world that should be. I appreciate Ellen Goodman more than any other editorial writer. She helps me formulate my thinking, and she forces me out of my complacency as a wife, mother, and a career woman. She stirs me to action; she makes me talk up for women at cocktail parties when I should be quietly refreshing drinks. But I must admit...

A regulator’s view

The current debate on the level of air fares must at the moment look more than usually odd to people outside the industry, and indeed to many people within it. The prospectus for this seminar refers to current accusations that the travelling public is being ‘ripped off and to comparisons between Europe and the USA. Yet we have only to look at the classified advertisements in the evening newspaper to see that we can buy a week’s inclusive tour to Majorca in early December for £60. The airlines tell us not only that they are making losses in Europe, but that even in good years profitability is never more than modest. They point to the high level of costs in Europe relative to the USA — the price of fuel, airport charges, the indirectness of many European routeings, the costs of a multi-country operation and to the more favourable operating conditions in the US, particularly the route density, the long sector distances and the greater flexibility in the hiring, firing and use of labour. The present period of recession, with its combination of high inflation and weak demand is making life even more difficult. Yet users call for lower fares in Europe and the CAA and the Department of Trade are also identified with the cause. What is going on?

Statistics and the news‐vendor

The paper considers the well‐aired problem of the seller of a single‐issue evening newspaper who has to decide how many copies to order each day. A mathematical model is constructed, and solved with the aid of material normally covered near the start of courses in probability and statistics. The author's concern is, not so much to encourage paper‐sellers to make more profit, as to help pupils, through their teachers, to see some purpose in their early statistical studies. Suggestions are made for extending the basic problem to provide topics for further study as pupils become better acquainted with the subject.

The price elasticity of demand for evening newspapers

This paper provides an analysis of the price elasticity of demand for evening newspapers in the United Kingdom. The method used represents a departure from the research tradition which has developed around the technique of multiple regression and the subsequent derivation of elasticity measures from the relevant coefficients of regression. Section I sketches in outline some characteristics of the evening newspaper industry with particular regard to the possibility of applying regression analysis to the available data. Section II describes the data and variables employed in the investigation. Section III outlines the model adopted. Finally, Section IV details the results and explains why, because of the peculiar stochastic specification of the circumstances, regression is not the most appropriate form of analysis.

Doctors and the press; mass medication; smoking and carcinoma.

AN eminent English physician told me how he once delivered a paper at the annual meeting of the Young Turks in Atlantic City. To his consternation and to the embarrassment of his American hosts, a full report appeared in the evening newspaper. He assured his friends that he had held no press conference and had spoken to no one outside the medical profession since reading his paper. He told them that he had gone straight from the meeting to the Chalfont Haddon Hotel, where the only stranger he had spoken to was a good-looking woman medical student, who had approached . . .

Combined Space Sales in Morning and Evening Newspapers Not Violation of Sherman Act

Combined Space Sales in Morning and Evening Newspapers Not Violation of Sherman Act

Trollope and the "Pall Mall Gazette". Part One

OIIIiII1N February 7, I865, George Smith, as proprietor, and Frederick Greenwood, as editor, published the first number of The Pall Mall Gazette, a London evening newspaper that took its title from Thackeray's imaginary journal and recruited its staff from the Cornhill writers.' One of the contributors to the first number was Anthony Trollope. Since the appearance of Framley Parsonage in i86o, Trollope had been closely associated with George Smith, the two men having turned what was at first a mere business relationship into a very pleasant social relationship. Trollope had long felt a sense of obligation to Smith for having given him his first significant literary opportunity. For this reason and for the even more compelling reason of personal friendship he therefore lent his talents, without thought of adequate remuneration, toward the successful establishment of the new venture. For three or four years he considered himself a member of the Pall Mall staff, though he was very much the free-lance reporter on roving assignment and his contributions were sporadic. When Michael Sadleir was compiling his Trollope: A Bibliography, he had access to a series of letters to George Smith in which Trollope discussed his Pall Mall

Weather Observations

A SUPPLEMENTARY contribution to the same number of the Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society by Col. E. Gold follows Sir Napier's with the title “Incidents in the March, 1906—1914”. This deals with a number of aspects of the work of the Meteorological Office not touched on by Sir Napier, among which may be mentioned the important contributions to the relationship between barometric pressure gradient and wind force, and to radiation in the atmosphere, made by the writer himself, and to the perhaps even more important pioneer investigations of Cr. I. Taylor in the subject of atmospheric turbulence, carried out during his tenure of the Schuster readership at Cambridge. It was during those years that the weather observations made at the health resorts were brought under official control, with the result that a reasonable degree of intoreomparability has ever since existed in the tabular weather summaries published in most of the morning and evening newspapers, whereas formerly observers had almost unlimited opportunity for creating a false impression of the amount of sunshine to be expected by visitors favouring their own locality. The vexed question of the most suitable units to be used in British meteorology is also touched upon, a question that does not admit of easy solution seeing that the units that satisfy the meteorologist and are intelligible to the ordinary citizen of France and Germany, are not popular with those who, through not having been educated in natural science, are unfamiliar with the C.Q.S. system and the centigrade thermometer.

Oldest Halfpenny evening newspaper

Oldest Halfpenny evening newspaper

Oldest Halfpenny evening newspaper

Journal Article Oldest Halfpenny evening newspaper Get access W. M. Noble W. M. Noble 1Wistow, Hunts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume s12-X, Issue 216, 3 June 1922, Page 436, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/s12-X.216.436e Published: 03 June 1922