TITLE: The QUILL
["The Magazine for Journalists" -- RARE and interesting issue!]
ISSUE DATE: MARCH 1974; VOLUME 62, NUMBER 3
CONDITION: Standard magazine size, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, GOOD condition, small cut-out from the front cover. (See photo)

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COVER: The Job is Rewrite. Cover photo by Jack Lenahau. Art design by Robert Tobaison.

THE JOB IS REWRITE . . . PAUL GALLOWAY . . . The rewriteman. The layman probably hasn't the vaguest notion of what he does. The rookie reporter sees him as the chain-smoking, gruff-voiced, impatient, nimble-fingered, well-versed-in-everything guy who is married to his typewriter, cherishes his headset, couldn't care less if he never saw the outside of the newsroom and has a similar regard for his by-line. Newspaper people are about the only ones who can really appreciate him. He can listen to a reporter for two hours and bang out a two-graph story that tells it all. When front-page news breaks at deadline, he remains cool, collecting information from 20 sources and punching out 10 clean takes for the first edition. Mainly he just gets the paper out. He deserves, and gets, the admiration of his peers as is evidenced in the article by Chicago Sun-Times reporter Paul Galloway and sidebars by staff members of three other newspapers eager to let their before-now anonymous rewritemen be known.

A FLURRY OF GAG RULES . . . STAN CROCK . . . The press has been successful in using the argument that a "public" trial, guaranteed to every citizen, is assured by press coverage. Gag rules, therefore, have been found unconstitutional. But the courts have been able to use their contempt powers to stifle press coverage of trials or pre-trial proceedings. Most recently, a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld the contempt conviction of two Baton Rouge, La., reporters who covered a pre-trial hearing directly disobeying an order the court said was unconstitutional. And the Supreme Court refused to hear the case. Palm Beach (Fla.) Post courthouse reporter Stan Crock takes a look at the Baton Rouge case and another case -- involving CBS -- which may discourage judges' attempts to invoke unconstitutional gag rules or at least give the press a rejoinder.

DISCLOSURES ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL . . . TIMOTHY HARPER . . . The Watergate scandal has inspired many states to attempt to insure the honesty of their politicians by passing campaign disclosure laws. AP writer Timothy Harper explains how the laws place an additional responsibility in the hands of the reporter on the campaign trail.

Reporters and the Public Business . . . William Johnston . . . William Johnston is best known among Pacific Northwest journalists for editorials he wrote from 1949 to 1965 as managing editor of the Lewiston (Idaho) Morning Tribune. He characterizes himself, though, as a "chronic FOI chairman," after serving as the committee chairman for the Idaho-Utah Associated Press Managing Editors for many years. He helped obtain an open meetings law in Idaho, pioneered state efforts to deflect the "collision course" between the courts and the press and spoke often and in many places about press freedoms and responsibilities. He is presently associate professor of communications at the University of Washington. And he readily discusses the press and how members of the media can work toward guaranteeing their freedom.

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The QUILL, a monthly magazine devoted to journalism, is owned and published by The Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi.

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