A long-time newspaperman and Asia hand, Mr. Ridding previously served as editor and publisher of the Asian edition of The Financial Times, and chairman of Pearson in Asia.
By late 1862, he was a full-time newspaperman in Virginia City, and on Feb. 3, 1863, he decided to sign an article with the name "Mark Twain," an old river expression that meant "two fathoms".
According to his colleagues, he was the epitome of an old-time newspaperman with his Lou Grant smile and cigar and daily lunch at Gough's, a now defunct newsmen's watering hole, who totally lived his passion, to be a meticulous, honest editor.
Ross brought to his magazine the old-time newspaperman's values, and they turned magazine writing into literature.
Even disguised as the fictional Chicago Bugle in the novel "Rumor Has It," written by a former Sun-Times newspaperman, Charles Dickinson, it is recognizable: "Put up in the 1950's out of burnished aluminum, plate glass and thin slabs of black granite, the Bugle building was only seven stories tall.
By the time the old newspapermen and women trundled to their offices to write up the event we bloggers already had four stories written and were on to the next thing.
The New Yorker, March 7 , 1925P. 7 Carr Vatell Van Anda, famous newspaperman with Times.
In Pittsfield, John first met John Nicolay, who was at the time a 20-year-old newspaperman.
He began his life in New York cautiously; he planted his wife, who followed him from Colorado, in the outer boroughs, and fathered a couple of children in that absent and absent-minded way of newspapermen of the time.
All this gives the 57-year-old Weil — a well-connected, third- generation newspaperman and a former Time magazine publisher — an extraordinarily free hand.
He was basically a shy man, and Dan Daniel, who covered the Yankees as a newspaperman, once commented that every time Gehrig went to bat he anticipated it might be the last time he would get a hit, despite his extraordinary ability.
