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Knott, Leonard - Interview

Item number (ISN):

142815

Series title:

Voice of the Pioneer

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1983-10-06

Item number (ISN):

142815

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

MCNEIL, Bill

Accession:

1989-0460

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1983-10-06

Production company:

Bill McNeil (Interviewer)

Description:

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Interview of Leonard Knott, about his career as a newspaper reporter and in public relations. He speaks about: growing up in Winnipeg, the city in which he was born in 1905; the predominance of people Anglo-Saxon background in the city's south end and at the university; cultural life and landmarks inWinnipeg; his joining the staff of the TORONTO STAR in 1927; the encouragement fellow TORONTO STAR reporters Greg Clark and Morley Callaghan gave to Ernest Hemingway while he was also at the STAR; the work of reporters at the TORONTO STAR in the 1920s; the differences between reporters then and now; newspaper reporting as a male occupation in the 1920s; the rise of the newspaper columnist; the decline of local news reporting; his coverage in 1920 of the Search for the [MacAlpine] pilots lost in the Arctic; the practice of newspapers of the past to send a team of reporters to cover a big story; his view that newspaper reporters of the past worked harder than they do now; the 1929 "Christmas Massacre" at the Star, when Knott and a group of his colleagues, including Gordon Sinclair, were fired after being caught playing a crap game in the newspaper dark room; Knott's move to the MONTREAL GAZETTE; the effect of the Depression on the newspaper business, notably wage cuts and the lack of job opportunities; his move to public relations and writing books; and his dislike of new technology such as word processors and videotape, that have changed communicating from an imaginative or creative occupation to a technological process.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Interview edited for broadcast on the CBC Radio series Voice of the Pioneer in three installments, on January 22, January 29 and February 5, 1984.~2. No complete radio program as broadcast.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

177393

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1989-0460/022

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

317488

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 9812-0021

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

58:52

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1004167

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 9812-0021

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1989-0460/022
1989-0460/023
1989-0460/025

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1151078

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

142815-1989-0460-022.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

27:31

Made from:

1989-0460/022

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 9812-0021

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Bill McNeilCBC has rights only for one broadcast of each of the programs.Contact for Bill McNeil: Dawn McNeil Lemaire.

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