Bernard Gallagher's 'Report': is the magic gone?

The article provides information on a report released by publisher Bernard Gallagher in the U.S. in 1971. In a Winchellesque, staccato style report, Gallagher, who for a time was perhaps the single most influential man in the communications industry, told who was being fired, whose position was in j...

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Publicado en:Columbia Journalism Review Vol. 10; no. 4; pp. 28 - 36
Autor principal: Welles, Chris
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Columbia Journalism Review Nov/Dec1971
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