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Focuses on the sensational journalism. Report that a systematic and indefatigable emphasis, an efficient competition, has brought people to the point where everything strange and horrible gets into the news and very little of ordinary life can be said to be news at all; View that almost nothing is as old as the fact that the newspapers do not give the truth--the Whole Truth; Example of an imaginary editor, who can from the miscellaneous pile of the horrible or strange, can reconstruct the Whole Truth, the important truth, and the truth that people ought really to be reading about; View that under the banner heads would be quantities of unusual information, of a kind that people have never before received.

The article throws light on the printing-press works. For many years, there stood on Grand Street a tower that served as beacon to all the adventurous spirits that braved, and got lost in, the lower East Side. It was not much of a tower as towers go in this age of Jack-and-the-Beanstalks, but it held a big clock above tenements, and to its face the working world turned as a mariner to the sun. It also focuses on R. Hoe & Co., which is perhaps the last brick left of the old printing-press works which stood where the new Amalgamated Apartments rise with terraces and garden.

This article presents the author's views on the stories related to snakes published in papers. The Florida press are filled with snake stories which are printed by newspapers. In the North in summer, it might seem that in this age of unbelief both sets of yarns would gradually die of anemia and malnutrition, but fortunately for the amusement of the human race there seems to be no immediate danger of such a catastrophe. At least the 1930 crop seems to be without blight or blemish, for in spite of the presence in the orange groves of what Florida newspapers call for short the "Medfiy," the St. Petersburg Evening Independent reports that the snake-story season has opened on the east coast of the State both auspiciously and conspicuously.

The article focuses on the day-to-day experiences of media men and newspapermen on news gathering in the U.S. For radio reporters, things happen fast for them, with none of the waiting around so common in bleak old reality. Half of a reporter's life is spent waiting for a jury to decide whether to vote now or have another dinner on the county, waiting while the assistant state's attorney changes into a suit he thinks will photograph better or waiting at sunny airports.

Focuses on the ever changing nature of news. Duration of the front-page news that are pushed aside immediately when some other news becomes more important; Reference to Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man to orbit the earth in a space flight; News of the invasion of Cuba that became a cover page item for newspapers and journals; Arrest of political leader Moise Tshombe of Katanga, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Focuses on the state of American journalism and the factors influencing it. Comparison of news reporting with the previous years; Impact of newspaper's circulation on advertisers; Change in the attitudes of columnists about newspaper policies; Emergence of trade unionism in the newspaper world; Significance of reporters in journalism; Factors that have forced many newspapers to fill their inside pages with features; Example of Sam Newhouse, a publisher and a businessman who operates newspapers without regard to views.

The article focuses on the suppression by the Ginger-beer Press of news regarding the state of affairs in the Isle of Wright. It states that many readers were driven to read the journal instead of the misleading and erroneous sheets. It mentions that a large staff of world-famous war correspondents, descriptive writers, and photographers were dispatched. It adds that scores of children and women are leaving the Isle of Wright for the mainland.