North American Newspaper Alliance
Formerly | Bell Syndicate-North American Newspaper Alliance |
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Company type | newspapers |
Owner | John Neville Wheeler (1930–1951) Ernest Cuneo (1951–1963) |
Divisions | Bell Syndicate |
The North American Newspaper Alliance (NANA) was a large
History
Foundation
NANA was founded in 1922 by 50 major newspapers in the United States and Canada led by Harry Chandler of the Los Angeles Times and Loring Pickering of the San Francisco Chronicle.[1]
Wheeler era
Publishing executive John Neville Wheeler became general manager of NANA in 1930, which soon absorbed the Bell Syndicate, a similar organization Wheeler had founded around 1916, although both continued to operate individually under joint ownership. NANA continued to acquire other syndicates over time, including Associated Newspapers and the Consolidated Press Association (at that point headed by David Lawrence).[1]
In the 1930s and 1940s, NANA was known for its selections for the College Football All-America Team, using four well-known coaches each year. One of NANA's most famous correspondents was Ernest Hemingway, who was sent to Spain in 1937 to report on the Spanish Civil War.[2] Hemingway based one of his best-known novels, For Whom the Bell Tolls, published in 1940, on his experiences there.[3]
In 1943,
Cuneo era
By the early 1950s the syndicate was being overshadowed by more powerful news syndicates, and in March 1951 it was purchased by a small group of investors led by
Ernest Cuneo and the Bell Syndicate-North American Newspaper Alliance group acquired the McClure Newspaper Syndicate in September 1952, with Louis Ruppel installed as president and editor.[4]
Cuneo acquired full control over NANA in the mid-1950s and served as president until 1963 when he sold it. However, he remained with NANA as a columnist and military analyst from 1963 to 1980.[6]
Because of Cuneo's association with former members of American and British intelligence, including Fleming and Bryce, and because some writers in the Cuneo era had alleged links to the
Later years
A notable event late in the syndicate’s history occurred when a freelance correspondent,
NANA and Bell McClure were acquired by United Feature Syndicate in 1972.[10] The news service discontinued operations in 1980.
References
- ^ a b Watson, Elmo Scott. "CHAPTER VIII: Recent Developments in Syndicate History 1921-1935," 'History of Newspaper Syndicates. Archived at Stripper's Guide.
- ^ Speiser and Easterling-Hallman Collection of Ernest Hemingway, "The Spanish Civil War and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories"
- ^ Mitgang, Herbert (August 30, 1988). "Hemingway On Spain: Unedited Reportage". The New York Times Book Review.
Hemingway later turned his experiences on the Loyalist side into the play "The Fifth Column" and the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls"...
- ^ a b Knoll, Erwin. "McClure Syndicate Sold to Bell-NANA". Editor & Publisher (September 6, 1952).
- ^ Jennet Conant, The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington, 2008. p. 332
- ^ "Ernest L. Cuneo, 82; Owned Newspaper Service", The New York Times, March 5, 1988. Accessed April 23, 2010.
- ^ "NORTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE". NameBase. Retrieved 2012-01-20.[dead link]
- New York Times. August 19, 1973.
- ^ Ackerman, Elise (February 23, 1998). "An agent drawn to scandal: Lucianne Goldberg's taste for controversy". U.S. News & World Report.[dead link]
- ^ Goldberg To Retire From United Media
Further reading
- John Neville Wheeler, I’ve Got News for You: Fifty Years in The Newspaper Syndication Business, 1961.