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This edition: What Made Roy Howard the Greatest Newsman of the 20th c.?

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Original tape date: May 9, 2016. First aired: May 16, 2016.

Roy W. Howard may have been the greatest newspaper owner, editor and journalist of the 20th century. Starting as an Indiana newsboy, he pulled himself to the top of his profession, when he built the wire service, United Press, into an iconic news organization, and became chairman of the Scripps-Howard newspapers. Howard was the adviser and confidant to presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Eisenhower. He interviewed such great contemporaries as Stalin, Hitler, Churchill and the Japanese Emperor. Howard’s biographer, Patricia Beard, tells Jim Zirin the secret of Roy Howard’s amazing success.

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Patricia Beard Author, “Newsmaker”

  • About this series

  • Conversations with Jim Zirin is a talk show designed to illuminate the news by taking the time required to understand and interpret national and world events. The series features high-profile guests from the worlds of politics, law, business, foreign relations, national security, counterterrorism, media, lifestyles, literature, the arts, and the military.

    The series is hosted by Jim Zirin, a leading litigator and contributor to major publications including Forbes, the Daily Beast, the Nation, The Times of London and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of two books, The Mother Court -- Tales of Cases That Mattered in America's Greatest Trial Court, and Supremely Partisan—How Raw Politics Tips the Scales in the United States Supreme Court. Jim served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division under the legendary Robert M. Morgenthau.

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