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Hardcover Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment Book

ISBN: 0252031156

ISBN13: 9780252031151

Freedom from Advertising: E. W. Scripps's Chicago Experiment

Disgusted by publishers and editors who refused to cover important stories for fear of offending advertisers, the press baron E. W. Scripps rejected conventional wisdom and set out to prove that an ad-free newspaper could be profitable entirely on circulation. Duane C. S. Stoltzfus details the history of Scripps's innovative 1911 experiment, which began in Chicago amid great secrecy. The tabloid-sized newspaper was called the Day Book, and...

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