LONDON JOURNALIST
EDITOR FOR FIFTY YEARS. Fifty years as editor-in-chief of the English weekly, the “News of the World,” were completed on May 1 by Sir Emsley Carr, who celebrated his 74th birthday on the same day. Sir Emsley’s paper, of which he is also chairman and managing-director, recently attained a circulation of 4,000,000. To mark his jubilee, he was entertained by over 200 friends at a gathering held at the Dorchester Hotel and presided over by Major J. J. Astor, chairman of “The Times.” His portrait, which had been exhibited in the last Royal Academy, was presented to him. In an interview at the end of April, Sir Emsley said the circulation of the “News of the World” had been built up on the manner in which the news was presented, and the fact that it was always given without prejudice. “Journalism has not become an industry,” he added. “Unless a newspaper becomes an institution and has a soul it cannot flourish,”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 7
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163LONDON JOURNALIST Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 July 1941, Page 7
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