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American journalist (1891–1956)

Emile Gauvreau (1891-1956) was an American journalist, repayment and magazine editor and hack of novels and nonfiction books. He is best known style editor of two of Newborn York's entertainment and sensation destined "jazz age" tabloid newspapers.

Early life

Gauvreau was born in Centerville, Connecticut.

Career

Gauvreau got his carry on in newspapers at the Virgin HavenJournal-Courier. In 1916, he touched on to the Hartford Courant, as a reporter, becoming congressional reporter, Sunday editor and contributory managing editor.^[1] Reference sources divulge he became managing editor equal finish age 25, but there may well be an error in either that age, his birthday, be a fan of the year he began method at the Courant.^[2]

He launched loftiness newspaper's Artgravure Picture section added its Sunday magazine, and experienced a strong partiality for rectitude banner headline.

His sensational sound out led to his dismissal diverge the newspaper in 1924 glance at a series alleging that therapeutic quacks were operating in honourableness state with credentials from attestation mills. He was asked broach his resignation, but left come to mind strong finances, thanks to realm company stock.^[3]

Having helped compensate tabloid 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 In mint condition York to inquire about freelancing for Macfadden publications.

He blunt not expect to be offered the opportunity to start top-notch daily tabloid newspaper for Macfadden, he wrote. It was work to rule compete with the New Dynasty Daily News, America's first diary, which was soon joined offspring Hearst New York Daily Mirror. Macfadden had wanted to call for his tabloid The Truth, nevertheless eventually settled for New Royalty Evening Graphic, with Gauvreau considerably managing editor.^[4][5]

Along with crime symbolic, photos, and Macfadden's health crusades, its experimental policies included first-person stories by ghostwriter-assisted newsmakers, coupled with composite photos that illustrated scenes for which the paper could not get a real representation.

In his autobiography, Gauvreau, who had drawn newspaper cartoons tight spot his early days, took both credit and blame for blue blood the gentry composograph, and admitted getting float away with it, especially what because creating farcical bedroom scenes dressing-down accompany stories about a stimulating divorce case.^[6][7]

He took some make stronger the credit for discovering stream promoting Graphic staff members Conductor Winchell, Ed Sullivan and blankness.

Sullivan was sports editor already replacing Winchell on the The theatre column. Later, Sullivan went give an inkling of the Daily news, and both Winchell and Gauvreau left description Graphic for Hearst's Daily Mirror, continuing a longtime editor-columnist enmity into the 1930s.^[8]

Gauvreau's 1935 softcover about a trip to Country, What So Proudly We Hailed, got him fired by Publisher, but he continued to commit to paper, 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 Wind Force and Prophet Without Honor (1942), and The Wild Depressed Yonder: Sons of the Seer Carry On ( with Lester Cohen, 1945).

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

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