"People do everything in their cars," said Sgt. Frank Stuart of the Suffolk County highway patrol bureau, who has seen it all -- eating, applying mascara, shaving, turning newspaper pages.
He has one: he is what executives call a content provider for the Tribune Company, the giant media conglomerate that is experimenting with turning newspaper reporters into multimedia journalists and merging Chicago media properties into one large newsgathering source.
It turned newspapers into radio stations, and radio stations into audio and video-on-demand services.
Its conceit is both witty and elaborate: the Dresden-born Enrico Türmer, a dramaturge turned newspaper tycoon, goes bankrupt in the late nineties and vanishes.
Fleming, the British intelligence officer turned newspaper man turned spy novelist born 100 years ago this year, spent winters on his Caribbean getaway for almost two decades.
The museum curator turned newspaper critic Richard Dorment was another, as was Richard Ormond, soon to become 19th-century curator at the National Portrait Gallery.
But it was more than that, an uncanny ability to turn newspaper paragraphs — those gray, metallic vehicles — into a fluid substance that would sweep up emotion and detail into an overwhelming wave.
With $100,000 still needed for the pedestal, Joseph Pulitzer, the Hungarian immigrant turned newspaper publisher, appealed to his readers, "As the rich citizens of New York have shown such apathy in this matter, let the poor citizens move".
Job: owner, the Independent, Independent on Sunday, i, London Evening Standard Age: 52 Industry: publishing 2011 ranking: 30 The former KGB spy turned newspaper proprietor owns the Independent, Independent on Sunday and the London Evening Standard.
I move in with a high school teacher who also does a little plumbing on the side, who ain't much to look at, but who's built a special kind of refrigerator that can turn newspaper unto lettuce.
