Just Call Me Rae - Ann Weimer Moxley

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Résumé :

Rae O. Weimer founded the University of Florida's first school of
journalism, and within one year of his arrival in Gainesville, the
school received accreditation. No longer would Florida's students have
to leave the state to pursue dreams of becoming journalists. Just Call Me Rae
chronicles the life of the man who pioneered journalism education in
Florida and built one of the most innovative journalism and
communications programs in the country.

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Biographie:

Between 1925 and 1940, Rae worked for eleven
newspapers in six states, including the Akron Beacon Journal and
Cleveland Press in Ohio and the Buffalo Times in New York. The
culmination of his newspaper career was his role at the revolutionary
and historic PM newspaper in New York City. At PM, Rae rubbed elbows
with some of the greatest journalists and writers of his generation,
including Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Max
Lerner, I. F. Izzy Stone, Dashiell Hammett, and Pulitzer Prize-winner
Edna Ferber.

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Sommaire:

Rae
grew up in a small Midwestern town where he learned to be resourceful
and hardworking, traits that would make him--along with his
reputation--the prime candidate to lead UF's small journalism department.
Due to economic hardship, he dropped out of college in his final year,
but he knew he was destined to be a newspaperman. He learned everything
he could about the profession, taking any job that came his way.

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