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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 to keep faith with the reader.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Sellout at the Sun -- Joseph R. L. Sterne
2 Getting Started -- Russell Baker
3 Here's to You, Mr. Dorsey! -- Muriel Dobbin
4 Time Travel -- Arnold R. Isaacs
5 More Fun than Getting Rich -- Ernest B. Furgurson
6 Learning from the Best -- Tony Barbieri
7 Foreign Assignment: Black Baltimore -- Antero Pietila
8 Cradle of Corruption -- Frederic B. Hill
9 The Ivory Tower -- Barry Rascovar
10 The Bay -- Tom Horton
11 You Better Be Right -- Steven M. Luxenberg
12 A Free Hand Abroad -- Gilbert A. Lewthwaite
13 The Op-Ed Page -- Stephens Broening
14 The Shadow Government -- C. Fraser Smith
15 The Conflict -- Robert Ruby
16 Nightcops -- David Simon
17 Covering the Gipper -- Robert Timberg
18 Mandela Saves the Day -- Jerelyn Eddings
19 Drawing Contempt: The Art of the Editorial Cartoonist -- Kevin Kallaugher
20 Just North of Pleasant -- Laura Lippman
21 Doubling Up in Moscow -- Kathy Lally
22 Balkan Road Trip -- Dan Fesperman
23 No Such Agency -- Scott Shane
24 Shipbreaking -- Will Englund
25 Tribune: The Rupture -- Sandy Banisky
26 A View from the Boardroom -- W. Shepherdson Abell
27 What Will Become of Newspapers? -- John S. Carroll
Index
About the Contributors
