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Fresh Ink Behind the Scenes of a Major Metropolitan Newspaper by David Gelsanliter Foreword by Gene Roberts |
"I can think of no untold journalistic story more important than that of the Dallas Morning News. And no writer better equipped to tell it than David Gelsanliter. Fresh Ink is a remarkable marriage of subject and author."—Gene Roberts, Managing Editor, New York Times
"News is what happens at the margins of our lives. We see our newspaper as a member of the family—coming into the house before breakfast, when you may still be a little grumpy, before you've had your first cup of coffee. Tone of voice is important then. There is seldom a need to shout."—Burl Osborne, Editor and Publisher, Dallas Morning News
Futurists have called newspapers the last of the great smokestack industries—decrepit, dated, and destined to die. Fresh Ink offers proof that this need not be true. Newspapers are still a mass medium, able to gather a set of facts and create a sense of community each day—if they will.
Fresh Ink tells how Robert Decherd and Burl Osborne transformed a flawed paper with a checkered history into the leading newspaper in the southwest, winning seven Pulitzer Prizes along the way, one of them for graphics—the only newspaper ever to do so. The focus is on a week in the life of the Dallas Morning News, the death a month later of the competing Dallas Times Herald, and how the News has conducted itself in the three years since.
By offering an inside look at what is arguably the most successful newspaper in the country, this book makes an important contribution to the history of journalism.
DAVID GELSANLITER served as a diplomat in South America, West Africa, and Washington D.C. After eleven years with Knight-Ridder newspapers in Charlotte, Miami, and Philadelphia, he became general manager of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News. Now a writer living in New Mexico, his previous book was Jump Start: Japan Comes to the Heartland. GENE ROBERTS, former executive editor of the Philadelphia Inquirer, which won 17 Pulitzer Prizes during his tenure, is now managing editor of the New York Times.
Fresh Ink
ISBN 0-929398-84-X cloth $29.95s
ISBN 0-929398-91-2 paper $18.95s
LC 94-43363. 6x9. 217 pp. 8 color, 40 b&w photos. Gloss. Bib. Index.
Journalism. Business History. Urban Studies.
Publication Date: May 1995.
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