The world's journalism . an in any country, is employedThe Telephone in journalism to a larger extent in other coun-as a Reporter tries than in our own. In Russia the telephonebrings a considerable share of the news fromdistant points to the greater journals. Paris, London, Berlin,Milan and other cities use telephone service from distant townswith a freedom that does not exist in the United States. Aus-tralia and New Zealand employ the telephone for news trans-mission to a degree unequalled in America. The transformation of the editorial page and the threatenedretirement of the leader in the c
The world's journalism . an in any country, is employedThe Telephone in journalism to a larger extent in other coun-as a Reporter tries than in our own. In Russia the telephonebrings a considerable share of the news fromdistant points to the greater journals. Paris, London, Berlin,Milan and other cities use telephone service from distant townswith a freedom that does not exist in the United States. Aus-tralia and New Zealand employ the telephone for news trans-mission to a degree unequalled in America. The transformation of the editorial page and the threatenedretirement of the leader in the cheaper British journalism asdiscussed by Mr. Scott-James, British press his-The Loss of torian, gives another light on the condition of thethe Leader worlds journalism as viewed from the British stand-point. The leading article, as the phrase is usedin Great Britain, means the part of a newspaper which aims atthe expression or guidance of opinion as distinct from the provi-sion of news. 38 UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI BULLETIN. THE OSAKA MAINICHI SHIMBUN, MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED NEWSPAPER INJAPAN. NOTE ARTICLE TOR JAPANESE STUDYING ENGLISH THE worlds journalism 39 To what extent, said Mr. Scott-James, the leading articlewill retain its importance in the half-penny daily papers, whichof late years have come to fill so> large a part in English journal-ism, it is hard to say. In this, as in other things, the supply willin the long run keep pace with the demand. This, however, isbut poor comfort so long as we are ignorant what the amountof the demand will be. As yet a half-penny daily paper is farmore valued for its news than for its comments. Indeed of thenews, to which it mainly owes its circulation, but a small partlends itself to the leading article. Crime, sport and excitingincidents of all kinds form the chief subjects of the descriptivesketches which fill so large a place in the modern newspaper. Itmay be that this is but a passing phase in the evolution of populareducation. Two
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