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''The Real Paper'' was a Boston-area alternative weekly newspaper with a circulation in the tens of thousands. It ran from August 2, 1972, to June 18, 1981, often devoting space to counterculture and alternative politics of the early '70s. The offices were in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ==History== ''The Cambridge Phoenix'' was born on October 9, 1969, founded by Jeffrey Tarter. In the summer of 1972, Richard Missner, owner of what was then simply called "The Phoenix," fired editor Harper Barnes in a journalistic dispute.〔Ex-Phoenix staffers sue Missner for fraud, Madeleine Blais, July 29, 1972 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston-sub/doc/503521478.html?FMT=AI&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+29%2C+1972&author=Blais%2C+Madeleine&pub=Boston+Globe+%281960-1982%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=Ex-Phoenix+staffers+sue+Missner+for+fraud〕 〔George Frazier, July 29, 1972 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston-sub/doc/503521448.html?FMT=AI&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+29%2C+1972&author=Frazier%2C+George&pub=Boston+Globe+%281960-1982%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=The+lit%27ry+life〕 A union was formed and almost all of the staff went on strike. An agreement was reached within two weeks, without Barnes' reinstatement. Soon afterwards, the staff was informed of the purchase of the paper – its name and goodwill – by Stephen Mindich, owner of the more established (and more commercial) competitor ''Boston After Dark''. Hoping to eliminate his direct competition. Mindich renamed his paper ''The Boston Phoenix After Dark,'' later shortened back to ''The Boston Phoenix''. The entire former staff of ''The Phoenix'' was now unemployed, the lone exception being the late sportswriter George Kimball, who went to work for Mindich.〔()〕 Because of the solidarity developed before and during the strike, the Cambridge group decided to continue publication as ''The Real Paper'' (by implication, "The Real Phoenix") and organized themselves as an employee-run cooperative.〔()〕〔x-Phoenix staffers join to publish The Real Paper, Joe Pilati, July 31, 1972 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston-sub/doc/503490790.html?FMT=AI&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Jul+31%2C+1972&author=Pilati%2C+Joe&pub=Boston+Globe+%281960-1982%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=Ex-Phoenix+staffers+join+to+publish+the+Real+Paper〕 Bob L. Oliver, ''The Real Paper''s founding art director, was responsible for editorial and advertising graphic design from July 1972 to July 1973 and designed the paper's logo based on the original ''Phoenix'' type style.〔()〕 The Real Paper staff elected Robert Rotner as publisher, the late Jeff Albertson (a well-known staff photographer) as associate publisher, reporter Paul Solman as editor and Robert Williams as advertising director. The editorial staff included women's columnist Laura Shapiro, former editor Harper Barnes, rock critics Jon Landau and James Isaacs, reporters Charlie McCollum and Chuck Fager, cartoonist David Omar White,〔David Omar White finds the Boston Symphony a big draw Dec 2, 1973 Carolyn Clay http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston-sub/doc/746887588.html?FMT=AI&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Dec+2%2C+1973&author=Clay%2C+Carolyn&pub=Boston+Globe+%281960-1982%29&edition=&startpage=&desc=David+Omar+White+finds+the+Boston+Symphony+a+big+draw 〕 and writers Stephen Davis (music journalist), C. Wendell Smith and Jon Lipsky. David Chandler was the first design director, succeeded by Ronn Campisi and later Lynn Staley, who later became the head of design at ''The Boston Globe'' and Newsweek'' and Lucy Bartholomay, who succeeded Staley at "The Globe." Photo editor Peter Southwick also went on to "The Globe" as photo editor and now directs Boston University's photojournalism program.〔http://www.bu.edu/com/about-com/faculty/peter-southwick/〕 Paula Childs, the listings editor, became a television reporter. Though no capital was ever invested, The Real Paper cooperative became self-sustaining within several months. Two years of growth followed, accompanied by some employee turnover. Notable hires included reporters Joe Klein, Bo Burlingham, Anita Harris,〔http://brokenpatternsbook.com/about/anita-harris/〕 Burt Solomon and Ed Zuckerman, the late movie critic Stuart Byron, and columnists Kay Larson, aka Nora Lasky (art), and Mark Zanger (food, as "The Red Chef"), and music writers James Miller (academic) and Dave Marsh. As freelancers, the noted civil rights attorney Harvey A. Silverglate wrote on legal matters; Lita Lepie, author of the murder mystery ''Black Lotus'', wrote one of the country's first Lesbian columns under the pseudonym Lilith Moon; movie critic Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote about classical music, among other subjects; Fred Hapgood covered science.〔http://fhapgood.fastmail.fm/〕 Eventually, however, the strains of operating as a worker-owned firm without having learned how to handle cooperative management led to staff divisions. Published accounts of the split include one in the Harvard Crimson.〔()〕 Another appeared in a 1983 book, ''Life and Death on the Corporate Battlefield,'' by former editor Solman and former Managing Editor Thomas Friedman. Le Anne Schreiber, writing in ''The New York Times'' (January 3, 1983) discussed and quoted from the book's chapter on the paper's early history; :Lessons emerge from case histories of actual companies and individuals. Although it is told without hand-wringing, the saddest of these stories is what happened to the staff of ''The Real Paper''...Lines were drawn, and suddenly everybody was a close friend of somebody who was now the enemy of another close friend. :In a traditional organization, the conflicts that arose would have been solved by firings or resignations; but at ''The Real Paper'', which had been set up as an egalitarian business - with every employee holding an equal number of shares as long as he or she worked for the paper - there was no way to settle or to escape internal conflict. The fact that the paper had become profitable meant that no one wanted to leave and relinquish shares; but by staying together, given the bitter factionalism that had developed, the staff insured that the paper would become progressively less profitable.〔("Books of the Times," ''The New York Times'', January 3, 1983. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Real Paper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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