Charles Chapin's story

Newspapering, of a kind, commenced for me in a thriving little Western town when I was just fourteen years old, and had started out to climb from the bottom the long ladder that...

As soon as I had recovered from my illness, I began hunting for a job. I had already decided on a newspaper career and I went to Chicago with the hope of finding employment as a...

I enjoyed my work on the Chicago _Tribune_. It was the life I had longed for from boyhood, and I became so fascinated with reporting that I regretted having wasted so much time...

The escape of McGarrigle from the Chicago jail gave me an opportunity to score my first conspicuous news scoop. It won me a lot of glory among the craft and what was more gratif...

One day I entered the _Tribune_ office just as a tip came in of a tragedy in the little village of Winnetka, in the northern suburbs. Henry Lloyd, an editorial writer, lived the...

As an illustration of what I mean by creating an assignment, I once clipped a five-line item from an evening paper about a band of regulators in southern Indiana that were maski...

Just a week after the McCauley homicide, I became city editor of the Chicago _Times_. It was a great newspaper when I was a youngster, but it was subsequently wrecked by incompe...

I never went back to the _Herald_. After my health was restored, or partly so, I went to New York from the seashore, drifted down to Park Row and was attracted by the gilded dom...

On arriving in New York and reporting at the _World_ office, I was told why I had been summoned from St. Louis on such short notice. There had been a tragedy in the editorial ro...

Many newspaper readers have a mistaken impression that reporters wander aimlessly around the city, gathering news wherever they chance to run across it. It may surprise them to...

Joseph Pulitzer was the greatest man I ever knew; great as a journalist, great as a writer, great as a business man, great as a scholar, great as a thinker, great in his knowled...

The editor of one of the leading magazines recently wrote to me, asking that I write for him a series of articles on the rise and decline of journalism during the last fifty yea...

Newspaper men are notoriously improvident. Many of them spend their salaries as fast as they earn them. Perhaps if they were to acquire habits of thrift and were ambitious to sa...

When I went to California I had enough put away to have kept me comfortably the remainder of my life and to insure the future of all who were near and dear to me. I came back to...

The amazing part of my story is that I am alive to relate it. I have often asked myself how it happened that I did not finish what I set out to do, and I am sure that this thoug...