City Editor
New York City in the 1920s and 1930s was a great newspaper town, and few people knew the exciting world of breaking stories and five-star finals as intimately as Stanley Walker. Walker earned a reputation as one of the city`s most resourceful and astute newspaper men during the seven years he spent as city editor of the Herald Tribune. In CITY EDITOR, Walker distills his experiences into a robust insider`s account of the journalism of his day, bringing to life the era`s famous reporters and editors and offering hard-won and valuable insights into the practices and ideals of his profession. He takes on the difficult issues confronting the journalists of both his own day and ours: journalistic ethics, the value of journalism schools, freedom of the press and corporate influence on editorial content, and the impact of new media (in Walker`s day, news magazines and radio) on newspaper circulation....CITY EDITOR remains a lively, entertaining, and valuable record of the golden age of American journalism.

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