Press is ‘dull, dull, dull'
Globe editor raps writers
By D0bble Howlett
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A smooth, blue, pinstriped
suit states Thomas Winship's
conservative philosophy A red
tie, offering some flash to the
subdued clothing, underscores
the modernization the Boston
Globe editor says he is bringing
to basic journalism
Winship was the speaker for
the 62nd Oregon Newspaper
Publisher's Association Confer
ence's Eric Allen Memorial Lec
ture A luncheon was held in
the EMU Ballroom Friday
Winship took charge of the
Globe in 1965, and since then
the paper has won eight
Pulitzers — three in one year
Everette Dennis, dean of the
University's journalism school,
proclaimed Winship as the man
who took the Globe from a
"mediocre paper to a great
American newspaper ”
Introduced as a "writer's edi
tor," Winship said that the
American press is "dull, dull,
dull."
Winship told the audience of
about 250 that newspapers
need better writing from
reporters "Only good, concise,
easy-to-read newspapers will
survive the cable TV electronics
invasion."
Relating a tale from another
journalism conference, Winship
said that his colleagues com
plained of "poor lineage and
sagging circulations because of
electronic media gremlins "
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Winship told of another edi
tor's answer to those com
plaints. "Gents,” quoted
Winship, "why don’t we do what
we’re best equipped to do —
improve writing?"
During his speech, Winship
said that journalism schools are
paying "prime attention to good
writing — to turning out brighter
and brighter, more and more
eager journalists
After the speech, Winship
pointed to schools like the
University as examples of jour
nalism schools focusing on
writing skills
"There's more to journalism
schools than just Columbia," he
said "Oregon is one of the
great ones, one of the trail
blazers," Journalism schools
'Only good,
concise papers
will survive the
cable TV inva
sion. ’
are turning out reporters that
"come to us way ahead,” he
said.
The key to developing good
writing is atmosphere, Winship
said. "We need informal, ir
reverent, comradery in the
newsroom We’ve even had
romances and marriages.
"Once, Sally Grimm called me
the skipper of the love boat ”
Winship said it all comes
down to what he calls the “care
and feeding" of reporters. One
of the caretakers at the Boston
Globe is an English teacher
Winship hired.
"Every metro paper should
have a full-time teacher of writ
ing — even law firms have
them," he said
"While our electronic breth
ren gallop headlong into the
future, journalism should go
backwards to good writing,
good design, and the basics
"Our biggest challenge,"
Winship said after his speech,
"is to be useful and relevant in
houses full of electronic gad
getry "
bchool hosts news conference
The University met the press this weekend,
during the 62nd conference of the Oregon News
paper Publishers Association, sponsored by the
University Journalism School
Highlighting the weekend of lectures and
workshops was Thomas Winship. the editor of the
Boston Globe, who gave the "Eric Allen Memorial
Lecture ”
Workshops on design, circulation, creativity
in packaging and daily/nondaily roundtable dis
cussions made up the bulk of the conference
Two noted papers were discussed in the
graphics workshop " Joann Byrd, executive
editor of the Everett (Wash ) Herald and Martin
Weinberger, publisher and owner of the Clare
mont (Calif.)Courier, gave a slide presentation
of their papers
At the Friday night banquet. Everette Dennis,
dean of the University’s journalism school, spoke
to the publishers and editors about journalism
education and the press in hard times.
Dennis chronicled his travels through jour
nalism school and his career, pointing out that in
his senior year at the University, as editor of the
Emerald, he was sued for libel
"It's a great adventure to come back to the
University," Dennis said "The state of journalism
education is that of underfunding, overenroll
ent and growing consumerism "
But, said Dennis, "We haven't lost that fight
ing spirit."
Dennis spoke of a need for the University to
serve the middle management professional to
both the professional's and the student’s advan
tage
"We need to take a new look at ourselves,"
said Dennis. "Journalism education has become
somewhat ossified."
The conference, which ran through mid-day
Saturday, gathered professionals from California,
Oregon and Washington, as well as a smattering
of professionals from around the country.
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