eAlmanac | A Unique Online Reference Source » Point http://www.ealmanac.com A whole new association Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:36:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Three-Dot Journalism http://www.ealmanac.com/2340/numbers/three-dot-journalism/ http://www.ealmanac.com/2340/numbers/three-dot-journalism/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:04:59 +0000 Joel http://www.ealmanac.com/?p=2340 “Three-Dot Journalism” is an expression generally attributed to Herb Caen, the long-time—from 1938 to his death in 1997—and influential—he won the Pulitzer Prize—columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. Mr. Caen described this kind of journalism as a column filled with short items such as one-liners, gossip, and anecdotes. The style was very popular in American newspapers in the 1930′s and 1940′s, which was the era when he first started writing his column.

Among Mr. Caen’s other coinages is the term “beatnik.”

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