Background
Norman Ellis Isaacs was born on March 28, 1908, in Manchester, United Kingdom. He is the son of Rufus and Esther Simon Isaacs. The family moved to Canada when he was three and to Indianapolis when he was thirteen.
Norman Isaacs
Syracuse University where Norman Isaacs received his Doctor of Letters degree.
Syracuse University where Norman Isaacs received his Doctor of Letters degree.
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Identifies reasons for public disenchantment with the press, provides specific examples of mistakes made by newspaper owners, publishers, editors, and reporters, and gives advice on meeting the responsibilities of journalism
https://www.amazon.com/Untended-Gates-Mismanaged-Norman-Isaacs/dp/0231058772
1986
Norman Ellis Isaacs was born on March 28, 1908, in Manchester, United Kingdom. He is the son of Rufus and Esther Simon Isaacs. The family moved to Canada when he was three and to Indianapolis when he was thirteen.
Norman Isaacs received a Doctor of Letters degree in 1987 from Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York.
Norman Isaacs' newspaper career began as a high school sports correspondent for the Indianapolis Star. After putting up briefly with an editor who took money from a sports promoter to run stories, he quit and joined the Indianapolis Times, found an ethical tutor in an editor there and rose to become managing editor of the paper at the age of 27. He became editorial director of the Indianapolis News in 1943 and managing editor of the St. Louis Star-Times in 1945.
In 1951 he began ten years with the Louisville Times as managing editor; for the following nine years he served both the Times and the Courier-Journal as vice-president and executive editor. In 1971 he joined Columbia University as associate dean and editor-in-residence. The year 1975 found him taking over as president and publisher of the News-Journal Co. in Wilmington, Delaware. One of the significant developments in his career occurred while he was with the newspapers in Kentucky. The papers added the first newspaper ombudsman in the United States to hear complaints about the press.
During his career, he also found time to serve as president of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association as well as the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Isaacs served as chair of the National News Council from 1977 to 1982, was a member of the advisory board of the Pulitzer Prizes, was Hearst professor of communications at Stanford University in 1982, and was editor-in-residence at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, from 1983 to 1984.
His book, Untended Gates: The Mismanaged Press, was published by Columbia University Press in 1986.
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1986Norman Isaacs married Dorothy Ritz in 1932. They had two children. In 1977 his wife died. Later, in 1979, he married Mildred L. Wade.
