Godfather of Tabloid - Generoso Pope Jr. And the National Enquirer

Informationen zum Autor Jack Vitek is an associate professor of journalism and English at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. For many years, he was a professional journalist working for numerous publications, including the Washington Daily News, the Wall Street Journal, and Newsday. He is coauthor of Idol Rock Hudson: The True Story of an American Film Hero. Klappentext Grounded in interviews with many of Pope's supporters, detractors, and associates, The Godfather of Tabloid is the first comprehensive biography of the man who created a genre and changed the world of publishing forever. Zusammenfassung They're impossible to miss at grocery stores and newsstands in America: colorful, heavily illustrated tabloid newspapers with headlines promising shocking, unlikely, and sometimes impossible stories within.

About the author

Jack Vitek is an associate professor of journalism and English at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin. For many years, he was a professional journalist working for numerous publications, including the Washington Daily News, the Wall Street Journal, and Newsday. He is coauthor of Idol Rock Hudson: The True Story of an American Film Hero.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Vitek
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.09.2008
• EAN: 9780813125039
• ISBN: 978-0-8131-2503-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Medienwissenschaften, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Biografien: Literatur, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Biography / Autobiography