Search -
Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart: Tales from the Last Glory Days of Cleveland Newspapers Told by the Men and Women Who Reported the News
Gimme Rewrite Sweetheart Tales from the Last Glory Days of Cleveland Newspapers Told by the Men and Women Who Reported the News Author:John H. Tidyman It was a job unlike any other putting out a daily newspaper for a major city. In this case, Cleveland, where reporters, photographers and editors were envied, threatened, beatified, fooled and thought to be the luckiest s.o.b. s in town. — The office was called the city room, and the doors were wide open to politicians, huffing and puffing and th... more »reatening; to beauty queens, inventors, conspiracy theorists, bums, Barnum & Bailey clowns, sore losers and haughty winners . . . It was an amazing parade.
Stories rarely just walked in, though. Reporters wore out shoe leather, jamming dimes into pay phones, pressing their ears to closed doors. Photographers recorded the action, whether a murder victim or a murderer or the Girl Scout who sold the most cookies.
Now, here are the stories behind the stories, told by the men and women who covered them.
Listen in as veteran newspaper men and women talk about life on the job at Cleveland s newspapers during the 1950s, 60s and 70s when fierce competition between the Cleveland Press and the Plain Dealer made daily newspapers the most exciting business in town.
Their stories are funny, tragic, human and sometimes outrageous. Read them and find out why reporters in those days knew they had the world s best job.« less