In an age when local daily papers with formerly robust reporting are cutting sections and even closing their doors, the contributors to The Life of Kings celebrate the heyday of one such paper, the Baltimore Sun, when it set the agenda for Baltimore, was a force in Washington, and extended its reach around the globe. Contributors like David Simon, creator of HBO's The Wire, and renowned political cartoonist Kevin Kallaugher (better known as KAL), tell what it was like to work in what may have been the last golden age of American newspapers -- when journalism still seemed like "the life of kings" that H.L. Mencken so cheerfully remembered. The writers in this volume recall the standards that made the Sun and other fine independent newspapers a bulwark of civic life for so long. Their contributions affirm that the core principles they followed are no less imperative for the new forms of journalism: a strong sense of the public interest in whose name they were acting, a reverence for accuracy, and an obligation

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Publisher

Stackpole Books

Year

2023

ISBN

9781442268784

Topic

History

Subtopic

North American History

Index

History

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Sellout at the Sun
Chapter 2: Getting Started
Chapter 3: Here’s to You, Mr. Dorsey!
Chapter 4: Time Travel
Chapter 5: More Fun than Getting Rich
Chapter 6: Learning from the Best
Chapter 7: Foreign Assignment
Chapter 8: Cradle of Corruption
Chapter 9: The Ivory Tower
Chapter 10: The Bay
Chapter 11: You Better Be Right
Chapter 12: A Free Hand Abroad
Chapter 13: The Op-Ed Page
Chapter 14: The Shadow Government
Chapter 15: The Conflict
Chapter 16: Nightcops
Chapter 17: Covering the Gipper
Chapter 18: Mandela Saves the Day
Chapter 19: Drawing Contempt
Chapter 20: Just North of Pleasant
Chapter 21: Doubling Up in Moscow
Chapter 22: Balkan Road Trip
Chapter 23: No Such Agency
Chapter 24: Shipbreaking
Chapter 25: Tribune
Chapter 26: A View from the Boardroom
Chapter 27: What Will Become of Newspapers?
About the Contributors