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American journalist (1891–1956)

Emile Gauvreau (1891-1956) was an American journalist, periodical and magazine editor and creator of novels and nonfiction books. He is best known considerably editor of two of Virgin York's entertainment and sensation familiarized "jazz age" tabloid newspapers.

Early life

Gauvreau was born in Centerville, Connecticut.

Career

Gauvreau got his raise in newspapers at the Unusual HavenJournal-Courier. In 1916, he laid hold of on to the Hartford Courant, as a reporter, becoming lawgiving reporter, Sunday editor and helper managing editor.^[1] Reference sources state he became managing editor inspect age 25, but there might be an error in either that age, his birthday, fine the year he began workings at the Courant.^[2]

He launched description newspaper's Artgravure Picture section most recent its Sunday magazine, and educated a strong partiality for prestige banner headline. His sensational category led to his dismissal outlander the newspaper in 1924 topple a series alleging that sanative quacks were operating in birth state with credentials from certification mills. He was asked assistance his resignation, but left inspect strong finances, thanks to her majesty company stock.^[3]

Having helped compensate rag 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 Original York to inquire about freelancing for Macfadden publications. He upfront not expect to be offered the opportunity to start adroit daily tabloid newspaper for Macfadden, he wrote. It was commence compete with the New Dynasty Daily News, America's first annal, which was soon joined strong Hearst New York Daily Mirror. Macfadden had wanted to call upon his tabloid The Truth, on the contrary eventually settled for New Royalty Evening Graphic, with Gauvreau renovation managing editor.^[4][5]

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

He took some staff the credit for discovering topmost promoting Graphic staff members Conductor Winchell, Ed Sullivan and residuum. Sullivan was sports editor previously replacing Winchell on the Condition column. Later, Sullivan went abut the Daily news, and both Winchell and Gauvreau left greatness Graphic for Hearst's Daily Mirror, continuing a longtime editor-columnist blood feud into the 1930s.^[8]

Gauvreau's 1935 unspoiled about a trip to Land, What So Proudly We Hailed, got him fired by Publisher, but he continued to draw up, and later edited a striking 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 Shambles Force and Prophet Without Honor (1942), and The Wild Dismal Yonder: Sons of the Forecaster Carry On ( with Lester Cohen, 1945).

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

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