Winchell, W.

Japanese: ウィンチェル,W. - うぃんちぇる
Winchell, W.

…Essay columns written by famous writers and veteran reporters with good writing skills have long been a tradition in all newspapers, but it was America that developed columns into a newspaper's main product. A typical example is Walter Winchell, who wrote a gossip column titled "Broadway Hearsay" for the New York newspaper Graphic (founded in 1924) during the heyday of tabloid newspapers in the 1920s. His column was distributed and reprinted in 165 newspapers across the United States by a syndicate, and he became a nationally famous columnist. …

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Japanese:

…著名な文人,筆力のあるベテランの記者の書くエッセー・コラムは,どこの新聞でも古くからの慣行としてあったが,コラムを新聞の目玉商品として発達させたのは,アメリカである。1920年代のタブロイド新聞の全盛期,ニューヨーク《グラフィックGraphic》(1924創刊)に〈ブロードウェー風のたよりBroadway Hearsay〉と題する芸能界内幕ニュース,ゴシップのコラムを書いたウィンチェルWalter Winchellらが,その典型である。彼のコラムはシンジケートによりアメリカ各地の165紙に配給,転載され,コラムニストcolumnistとして全国的な著名人となる。…

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