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atlantic station when conditions warrant it. These four news organizations have the radio field practically to themselves.
In the matter of broadcasting, first honors fall to the Chicago Tribune, which introduced the half hourly bulletin now sent out regularly from wgn in Chicago. The Tribune operated its own plant for a time but later determined to use one of the commercial stations. Its bulletins are well known to a large section of the American public, furnishing a brief survey in terse language of just what is going on in the world. The bulletins sent out by the Radio Corporation of America also are copied on ships in the seven seas. Some of the big passenger vessels, maintaining their own printing plants, reproduce these dispatches in the form of miniature newspapers which are distributed every day the traveler is aboard. On other ships, lacking this pretentious equipment, they still constitute a tie with the world of affairs which lies behind and before.
kyw, also in Chicago, broadcasts the bulletins of the local Hearst papers, which further inform the public of the activities of its neighbors whether they happen to live in the next county or on the next continent. Even secret treaties and whispered understandings have drifted into this great hopper of news. Radio now supplements the press in disseminating such information everywhere. The man who
runs need not pause to read. He can listen as he goes and take with him a concise, photographic mind picture of how the world is conducting itself.
MANY PAPERS BROADCAST NEWS
OTHER papers in many states are broadcasting news by radio, ranging from such diverse communities as Detroit to Fort Worth. It is an odd phase of New York journalism that none of the country's greatest papers so far have embarked in news broadcasting. But the practice is growing daily, notably in cities of the 200,000 class, where life is not quite so busy as in the big centers, and people presumably have more time to heed the world's gossip. It is even said that farmers' wives have quit listening on the party line when Mrs. Jones calls up the grocer, preferring to get the latest word from Paris about this season's dresses. Radio news is broadly diversified, as it should be. It is a noticeable reflection of the daily newspaper. First comes the "leader," the big story of the hour. Then the other news in a descending scale. Occasionally there is an editorial squib. The sports department, ordinarily the last in rank, frequently enjoys a larger number of minutes than all of the other departments joined together. The public may or may not care about the British cabinet decision and the new
THE RADIO ROOM OF THE NEW YORK " TIMES " Here, operators are constantly on duty receiving press messages addressed to them from their correspondents abroad. A watch is also kept on the various commercial wavelengths. In that way, news is transmuted almost instantly from the air to the printed page. The Times has been able to score many news "beats" through the enterprise of their listening radio operators. F. E. Meinholtz, chief radio operator of the Times is standing, and R. J. Iveson is seated at the typewriter. The apparatus on the long table is devoted almost entirely to receiving from European stations on wavelengths of 10,000 meters and above