Newspaper editor Jim Bellows dies in LA at 86
Jim Bellows, a famed editor who transformed struggling newspapers in Los Angeles, Washington and New York, nurtured the careers of Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin and helped make "Entertainment Tonight" a TV hit, has died. He was 86.
By Agencies |
LOS ANGELES: Jim Bellows, a famed editor who transformed struggling newspapers in Los Angeles, Washington and New York, nurtured the careers of Tom Wolfe and Jimmy Breslin and helped make "Entertainment Tonight" a TV hit, has died. He was 86.
Bellows had Alzheimer's disease and died Friday at a nursing home in Santa Monica, said his wife, Keven Bellows.
For two decades beginning in the 1960s, Bellows took big-city newspapers that were fighting losing battles against large-budgeted giants and spiced them up with scrappy reporting and columns that often took jabs at their rivals.
"I am never happier than when someone hands me a newspaper that is either not very good or in deep financial trouble," Bellows wrote in his 2002 memoir, "The Last Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency."
"We didn't have to worry about profit and earnings and so on, because we didn't have any," Bellows said in a 2002 television interview for PBS's "NewsHour."
"But we certainly worked harder and did unusual things in the process."
Between 1961 and 1981, Bellows was an editor with the New York Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Star and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
Bellows had Alzheimer's disease and died Friday at a nursing home in Santa Monica, said his wife, Keven Bellows.
For two decades beginning in the 1960s, Bellows took big-city newspapers that were fighting losing battles against large-budgeted giants and spiced them up with scrappy reporting and columns that often took jabs at their rivals.
"I am never happier than when someone hands me a newspaper that is either not very good or in deep financial trouble," Bellows wrote in his 2002 memoir, "The Last Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency."
"We didn't have to worry about profit and earnings and so on, because we didn't have any," Bellows said in a 2002 television interview for PBS's "NewsHour."
"But we certainly worked harder and did unusual things in the process."
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Between 1961 and 1981, Bellows was an editor with the New York Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Star and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner.
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