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Identifier: canprinterpublish1920toro
Title: Canadian printer & publisher
Year: 1920 (1920s)
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Subjects: Printing Printing
Publisher: Toronto, Maclean-Hunter [etc.]
Contributing Library: Fisher – University of Toronto
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cured during the war be main-tained. He suggested that there was a strong reasonwhy the conference should go on record as opposed to any sortof fetter of officialdom being imposed upon newspapers. Thewar had secured to newspapers a greater recognition of itsvalue and its dignity, but after a great war there was a tendencyto ofl^cial reaction. Suspect Publicity Bureaus The newspapers generally viewed with suspicion the mush-room growth of Government publicity bureaus with their cropof news despatches, sometimss with party politics. In Aus-tralia these usually found their way to the waste-paper baskets.There was also the duty which devolved upon newspapers toremove the suggestion that the capitalistic press was growingapace, and the belief in the minds of the industrial classes thatnewspapers were becoming the rich mans plaything. Referring to the censorship of the Press, Mr. Fink said that inAustralia the censorship during the war had been ludicrous inprinciple and irksome to a degree.
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Nicholas Knight Kerney was born in Duljlin, Ireland,1870; acquired the rudimentsof journalism on the staff of theDaily E.rprcs.s of that city;went to London 1895; and wasappointed London sub-editorof the Manchester Courier, andsubsequently also financial edi-tor of the same paper. Since1911 he has been London editorof the Argus South African news-papers:—the Star, Johannes-burg; the Cape Argus, Capeiown; the Natal Advertiser,Durban; the Bulawayo Chron-iele, Bulawayo; and the Rho-desian Herald, Salisbury. Alfred Langlen, governor-ing director of the West Aus-tralian Newspaper Co., Ltd.,and editor-in-chief of the WestAustralian and Western Mail,Perth, Western Australia, wasborn at Ipplepen, Devonshire,England, 1886. He went onthe editorial staff of the SoudiAustralian Register, Adelaide.1890-95; after some years Im-came actively concerned withthe business management ofthe paper. Succeeded the lateSir Winthrop Hackett, K.C.M.G., as editor-in-chief of theWest Australian and WesternMail
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