John Bryan (journalist)
| John Bryan | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 12, 1934 Cleveland, Ohio U.S. |
| Died | February 1, 2007 (aged 72) San Francisco, California, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Publisher, Editor, Journalist |
| Notable work |
Open City Press Open City The Sunday Paper |
| Movement | Underground press |
| Spouse(s) | Joan |
John Charles Bryan (November 12, 1934 – February 1, 2007) was an American newspaper publisher, editor, and journalist best known for founding and running the Los Angeles alternative newspaper Open City. He also published the San Francisco-based Open City Press and the Sunday Paper. In 1981, the San Francisco Chronicle called Bryan "The King of the Underground Press."Warren Hinckle of the Chronicle called Bryan a "one-man-newspaper newspaperman," noting that his apartment was crammed with printing equipment. Paul Krassner said that Bryan was a journalist in the tradition of I.F. Stone.
The son of a Cleveland, Ohio newspaperman, the Cleveland-born Bryan worked as a journalist for a wide variety of major newspapers: the San Diego Tribune, the Los Angeles Mirror, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the Houston Post, the Houston Chronicle, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the San Francisco Examiner.
Bryan quit The San Francisco Chronicle in 1964 in order to found the weekly tabloid Open City Press. A one-man operation, Open City Press covered San Francisco's bohemian community. A local forerunner of the Berkeley Barb, it provided coverage of the Free Speech Movement.
In the beginning Bryan bought a case of metal monotype and hand-set his own copy, pulling proofs to paste up for cheap offset reproduction. Bryan published 15 issues of Open City Press between November 18, 1964, and March 17–23, 1965.
...
Wikipedia