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Jim Bellows
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Overview
Born
November 12
,
1922
·
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died
March 6
,
2009
·
Santa Monica, California, USA
(Alzheimer's disease)
Height
5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
Mini Bio
Jim Bellows was born on November 12, 1922 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was a producer, known for
Entertainment Tonight (1981)
,
The Living Century (2001)
and
The Last Editor (2002)
. He was married to Karen. He died on March 6, 2009 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
Family
Spouse
Karen
(? - March 6, 2009) (his death, 4 children)
Trivia
He took the helm of newspapers struggling against big-budget rivals, and made them more competitive with gritty reporting and gossip columns.
From 1961 to 1981, he was an editor with the New York Herald Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and the Washington Star.
He helped the careers of writers
Jimmy Breslin
,
Judith Crist
, and
Maureen Dowd
.
Quotes
(on revitalizing struggling newspapers) We didn't have to worry about profit and earnings and so on, because we didn't have any. But we certainly worked harder and did unusual things in the process. (from a 2002 interview for PBS' "NewsHour")
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