Poet of the Newsroom
Mar 02, 2020
4 minutes
Review by Henry Allen
FINAL DRAFT: The Collected Work of David Carr
EDITED BY JILL ROONEY CARR
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 400 pp., $28
NEARLY A CENTURY ago, Stanley Walker, city editor of the New York Herald Tribune, was a living legend of journalism, a hard-eyed Texan who wrote about the speakeasies and ruckus of New York City. He foretold the future of other living legends in his beloved newspaper business, which is to say the prizes you get and the prices you pay for spending a gritty life in a gritty newsroom.
To wit: in the 1920s, Walker wrote,
What makes a good newspaperman? The answer is easy.
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