WASHINGTON BUREAU

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100330024-3
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• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 12, 2004
• Sequence Number: 24
• Publication Date: October 22, 1973
• Content Type: MAGAZINE

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COPLEY NEWSPAPERS
Seven full-time reporters comprise the
staff of the Copley News Service that
provides a Washington report to fifteen
Copley newspapers and contributes to a
mail feature service that goes to some
1,300 clients in all parts of the world. It is
a relatively young staff in years but old
enough in experience to constitute a well-
,seasoned professional group.
Since the Copley papers are published
.in Illinois and California, three of the
staff are basically regional correspon-
dents. Lester Bell looks after news of
special interest to papers in Springfield,
Aurora, Elgin and Joliet, Illinois. Mar-
guerite Sullivan, a new member, takes
care of the regional news needs of Copley
papers in Northern California. Dan Foley
is the regional man for Southern Califor-
nia papers, which include the San Diego
Union and the San Diego Tribune, bright
jewels in the Copley diadem.
These regional reporters are available
for any request that comes from a Copley
editor, and plenty of them cone, particu-
larly from the San Diego Union. Because
not all the requests are for regional news,
3 the regional reporters frequently are
"- asked to take on national stories that fall
within the pattern of Copley News Serv-
ice coverage.
Youthful veterans
The four who are classified as national
reporters are James D. Cary, who is bu-
reau chief, Edward Neilan, L. Edgar
Prina and Benjamin Shore. All are what
might be called youthful veterans, with
experience in domestic and foreign fields.
Cary, who succeeded Raymond McHugh
as bureau chief, on June 9, has been with
Copley in Washington for five years. Be-
fore that, he was with the Associated
Press for 16 years, six of them in Japan.
Besides supervising the operation of the
bureau, he covers the White House mostly
in Washington, not San Clemente or Key
Biscayne.
Neilan, a veteran Far East reporter,
covers the State Department and related
diplomatic affairs. Ben Shore, formerly
with Newsday, specializes in Congression-
al coverage. Prina is the bureau's military
expert who finds time away from the Pen-
tagon to cover transportation news and
occasional general assignments.
The bureau is not staffed td cover long
running assignments like the Watergate
hearings and generally avoids spot news.
stories that are amply covered by the wire
services. A spot story like a Nixon news
conference, however, will be covered, with
Cary pounding the typewriter.
James D. Cary, chief of Washington Bureau of
Copley News Service.
Photo by Pat Young
Depth coverage
What the bureau endeavors to turn out
are in-depth, background. articles and
features, that supplement and put in per-
spective the spot stories from the wire
services and other sources that deluge the
I'ditors' desks. The bureau's report goes to
the papers over a teletype circuit that is
available around the clock and is operated
by Ralph Moseley. Moseley might be
called the eighth member of the staff be-
cause he writes a civil service column out
of a background of several years in gov-
ernment service.
Features are mailed
The articles the Washington bureau
contributes to the mail feature service,
which Cary says is the largest in the
world, are mailed to San Diego, which is
the headquarters of the news service, and
from there distributed by mail to clients
in the United States and throughout the
world. Circulation is heaviest in Latin
America.
The Copley newspapers opened their
first Washington bureau in 194.1, mainly
to serve the Illinois papers that were the
nucleus of the Copley Chain. The first
bureau manager was the late Bob Rich-
ards, whose forte was politics, regional
and national.
In 1955, the Copley newspaper bureau
became the Copley News Service, the
name it still bears. The staff and the
coverage was expanded but stabilized at
the present numerical force. Mcllugh
succeeded Richards in 1965 and headed the
Service until his retirement this year.
The bureau occupies what might almost
be called a penthouse suite, handsomely
furnished, in a nioclern building on K
Street, where fountains play in an en-
trance courtyard.
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