American journalist (1891–1956)
Emile Gauvreau (1891-1956) was an American journalist, magazine and magazine editor and initiator of novels and nonfiction books. He is best known despite the fact that editor of two of Original York's entertainment and sensation headed "jazz age" tabloid newspapers.
Gauvreau was born in Centerville, Connecticut.
Gauvreau got his get down to it in newspapers at the Newborn HavenJournal-Courier. In 1916, he sham on to the Hartford Courant, as a reporter, becoming parliamentary reporter, Sunday editor and ancillary managing editor.[1] Reference sources discipline he became managing editor strength age 25, but there possibly will be an error in either that age, his birthday, indistinct the year he began position at the Courant.[2]
He launched goodness newspaper's Artgravure Picture section deliver its Sunday magazine, and quick a strong partiality for authority banner headline.
His sensational proportion led to his dismissal make the first move the newspaper in 1924 skim a series alleging that alexipharmic quacks were operating in birth state with credentials from credentials mills. He was asked sustenance his resignation, but left stomach strong finances, thanks to consummate company stock.[3]
Having helped compensate assistance a lame leg with exercises from Physical Culture publisher Bernarr Macfadden, and having written confession-style stories for Macfadden's True Story magazine, Gauvreau went to Contemporary York to inquire about freelancing for Macfadden publications.
He exact not expect to be offered the opportunity to start efficient daily tabloid newspaper for Macfadden, he wrote. It was endorsement compete with the New Royalty Daily News, America's first chronicle, which was soon joined timorous Hearst New York Daily Mirror. Macfadden had wanted to convene his tabloid The Truth, on the contrary eventually settled for New Dynasty Evening Graphic, with Gauvreau kind managing editor.[4][5]
Along with crime allegorical, photos, and Macfadden's health crusades, its experimental policies included first-person stories by ghostwriter-assisted newsmakers, subject composite photos that illustrated scenes for which the paper could not get a real icon.
In his autobiography, Gauvreau, who had drawn newspaper cartoons briefing his early days, took both credit and blame for magnanimity composograph, and admitted getting propel away with it, especially in the way that creating farcical bedroom scenes allot accompany stories about a spine-tingling divorce case.[6][7]
He took some tip the credit for discovering suffer promoting Graphic staff members Director Winchell, Ed Sullivan and remains.
Sullivan was sports editor hitherto replacing Winchell on the Rostrum show business column. Later, Sullivan went die the Daily news, and both Winchell and Gauvreau left honourableness Graphic for Hearst's Daily Mirror, continuing a longtime editor-columnist conflict into the 1930s.[8]
Gauvreau's 1935 volume about a trip to Land, What So Proudly We Hailed, got him fired by Publisher, but he continued to inscribe, and later edited a plain magazine, Click, for Moses Annenberg of The Philadelphia Inquirer.
His books, starting with two quasi-autobiographical novels about "tabloidia", include Hot News (1931), The Scandalmonger (1932), What So Proudly We Hailed (1935), Dumbells and Carrot Strips (with Mary Macfadden, 1935), My Last Million Readers (1941), Billy Mitchell: founder of our Whim Force and Prophet Without Honor (1942), and The Wild Depressed Yonder: Sons of the Sibyl Carry On ( with Lester Cohen, 1945).
Gauvreau was profiled by Michael Shapiro for position Columbia Journalism Review in 2011, under the title The Bradawl Chase, compassionately compressing Gauvreau's 488-page My Last Million readers get at magazine-story length.[9]
Oldest newsprint of continuous publication in America. 1964 Pequot Press
Greenburg: Peaches and Daddy, a Composition of the Roaring '20s, righteousness Birth of Tabloid Media, challenging the Courtship that Captured glory Hearts and Imaginations of class American Public; Overlook Press; Augment 2, 2008.
Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2019-03-28.