The Last Editor by Jim Bellows

Author:Jim Bellows [Bellows, Jim]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4494-1322-4
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

I joined the Los Angeles Times in December 1966. The following years were an explosive era. The Times supported the Vietnam War; Paul Conrad and I, and a few others, including Ed Guthman, questioned it. Otis Chandler had brought in Ed in May 1965 to build a national staff, which consisted of reporters in Washington, San Francisco, and Atlanta. Ed opened bureaus in New York, Chicago, and Houston as well.

Ed Guthman had a sparkling résumé. He had won a Pulitzer Prize for stories he’d written for the Seattle Times on the eve of the Joe McCarthy period. Ed’s stories had cleared a University of Washington professor of charges by the state legislature’s Un-American Activities Committee that he had attended a secret Communist training school in 1938. Ed found that the committee had subverted the evidence against him.

Guthman had captured the attention of Bobby Kennedy, who brought him to the Justice Department as his press chief.

Nick Williams was nearing retirement and the word was that either Ed or I would succeed him, with Bill Thomas, the metropolitan editor, the outside choice.

In his book The Powers That Be, about the Los Angeles Times and other publishing dynasties, David Halberstam reviewed the odds on who would become editor: “Bellows was a man of very special editorial skills, creative, imaginative, he loved to venture into areas where journalists had never been before. He was a man of great energy, and for a major editor, of little caution.”

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