Description
Scott Newhall was an editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. Born in 1914 in San Francisco, he attended UC Berkeley but quit in his third year. Newhall joined the Chronical as a photographer in 1935 and rose to become executive editor in 1952, before stepping down in 1971. That year, he ran for mayor of San Francisco but was not elected. In 1963, he purchased The Newhall Signal, which he continued to edit until 1988. In 2012, he was inducted into the California Newspaper Hall of Fame. In this interview he discusses his art studies at UC Berkeley, the San Francisco Chronicle in the thirties and forties, the San Francisco environment, and the role of fact and fantasy in newspapers.