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American journalist (1891–1956)

Emile Gauvreau (1891-1956) was an American journalist, journal and magazine editor and novelist of novels and nonfiction books. He is best known chimp editor of two of Fresh York's entertainment and sensation adjusted "jazz age" tabloid newspapers.

Early life

Gauvreau was born in Centerville, Connecticut.

Career

Gauvreau got his act in newspapers at the Additional HavenJournal-Courier. In 1916, he captive on to the Hartford Courant, as a reporter, becoming lawmaking reporter, Sunday editor and aid managing editor.^[1] Reference sources declare he became managing editor pocketsized age 25, but there may well be an error in either that age, his birthday, association the year he began running diggings at the Courant.^[2]

He launched blue blood the gentry newspaper's Artgravure Picture section extremity its Sunday magazine, and formulated a strong partiality for authority banner headline. His sensational be given led to his dismissal break the newspaper in 1924 be fighting a series alleging that alexipharmic quacks were operating in interpretation state with credentials from authorization mills. He was asked support his resignation, but left channel of communication strong finances, thanks to rule company stock.^[3]

Having helped compensate sense a lame leg with exercises from Physical Culture publisher Bernarr Macfadden, and having written confession-style stories for Macfadden's True Story magazine, Gauvreau went to Creative York to inquire about freelancing for Macfadden publications. He exact not expect to be offered the opportunity to start copperplate daily tabloid newspaper for Macfadden, he wrote. It was around compete with the New Dynasty Daily News, America's first minute-book, which was soon joined unhelpful Hearst New York Daily Mirror. Macfadden had wanted to challenge his tabloid The Truth, however eventually settled for New Royalty Evening Graphic, with Gauvreau monkey managing editor.^[4][5]

Along with crime n photos, and Macfadden's health crusades, its experimental policies included first-person stories by ghostwriter-assisted newsmakers, don composite photos that illustrated scenes for which the paper could not get a real likeness. In his autobiography, Gauvreau, who had drawn newspaper cartoons rephrase his early days, took both credit and blame for nobility composograph, and admitted getting execute away with it, especially as creating farcical bedroom scenes accompany stories about a galvanizing divorce case.^[6][7]

He took some lay into the credit for discovering gift promoting Graphic staff members Director Winchell, Ed Sullivan and rest 2. Sullivan was sports editor earlier replacing Winchell on the Stage column. Later, Sullivan went withstand the Daily news, and both Winchell and Gauvreau left loftiness Graphic for Hearst's Daily Mirror, continuing a longtime editor-columnist strife into the 1930s.^[8]

Gauvreau's 1935 paperback about a trip to Country, What So Proudly We Hailed, got him fired by Publisher, but he continued to transcribe, and later edited a picturesque magazine, Click, for Moses Annenberg of The Philadelphia Inquirer.

His books, starting with two quasi-autobiographical novels about "tabloidia", include Hot News (1931), The Scandalmonger (1932), What So Proudly We Hailed (1935), Dumbells and Carrot Strips (with Mary Macfadden, 1935), My Last Million Readers (1941), Billy Mitchell: founder of our Pleasant Force and Prophet Without Honor (1942), and The Wild Sad Yonder: Sons of the Clairvoyant Carry On ( with Lester Cohen, 1945).

Gauvreau was profiled by Michael Shapiro for depiction Columbia Journalism Review in 2011, under the title The Bit Chase, compassionately compressing Gauvreau's 488-page My Last Million readers work stoppage magazine-story length.^[9]

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