News and the Human Interest Story

-There is not an intelligent newspaper reader in the country who would not be made more intelligent by reading this book, and even some of the unintelligent might be made a little less so.- --Christian Century -Where others have spoken of the degradation of an honorable institution, she evaluates the changes in the newspaper as natural and significant. This interesting, sociological approach is a real contribution.- --M.M. Willey, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science -Hughes has traced out the origin of the human interest story, and since she knows the smell peculiar to the city room, gives an excellent and well-written account of its gradual emergence into a place of prominence in our contemporary daily newspapers.- --j.P. Shalloo, American Sociological Review "There is not an intelligent newspaper reader in the country who would not be made more intelligent by reading this book, and even some of the unintelligent might be made a little less so." --Christian Century "Where others have spoken of the degradation of an honorable institution, she evaluates the changes in the newspaper as natural and significant. This interesting, sociological approach is a real contribution." --M.M. Willey, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "Hughes has traced out the origin of the human interest story, and since she knows the smell peculiar to the city room, gives an excellent and well-written account of its gradual emergence into a place of prominence in our contemporary daily newspapers." --j.P. Shalloo, American Sociological Review "There is not an intelligent newspaper reader in the country who would not be made more intelligent by reading this book, and even some of the unintelligent might be made a little less so." --Christian Century "Where others have spoken of the degradation of an honorable institution, she evaluates the changes in the newspaper as natural and significant. This interesting, sociological approach is a real contribution." --M.M. Willey, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "Hughes has traced out the origin of the human interest story, and since she knows the smell peculiar to the city room, gives an excellent and well-written account of its gradual emergence into a place of prominence in our contemporary daily newspapers." --j.P. Shalloo, American Sociological Review