The Chain Gang

Name: The Chain Gang
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Richard McCord
ISBN: 9781455101535

Author: Richard McCord

Narrator: Richard McCord

Unabridged: 11 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/22/2005

Categories: Nonfiction, Social Science, Media Studies

Synopsis

Im afraid theyre going to get me, said Frank Wood, publisher of the Green Bay NewsChronicle, in a phone call to colleague Richard McCord. Wood could not hold out much longer against a devouring giant, the Gannett Company. McCord, as a publisher of the Santa Fe Reporter, had successfully fended off Gannetts Operation Demolition. Now Wood was seeking the help of a survivor.

About Richard McCord

Richard McCord has been a professional journalist for more than twenty-five years at Newsday in New York and at the Santa Fe Reporter in New Mexico. His work has been honored for excellence by the Scripps Howard Foundation, the National Press Club, the National Newspaper Association, and Investigative Reporters and Editors.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Annie on November 26, 2018

Interesting read because of the local connection. The story is a couple of decades old and a lot has happened in newspapering since then, but still a good read.......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on August 04, 2014

A firsthand account of how large media corporations destroyed independent newspaper publishing in the US.......more