[10] Besides working on the editorial staff of his newspaper, Walker wrote book reviews for the New York Times and freelance articles for other publications.
He then left the Herald Tribune for short stints at the Daily Mirror, The New Yorker and the New York Woman, returning in 1937 to again hold the position of editor for another two years.
Its purpose, according to the author, was to describe the contemporary journalism scene in America, but it also gave the historical background of then-current newspaper trends, including the dawn of the tabloid age in the early 1920s and the ongoing consolidation of many local papers into a few daily giants.
It described organizations that serviced newspapers such as the AP and UPI, and smaller local associations now lost to journalistic memory that covered the courthouses and port of New York.
The book covered the perils of libel suits, the division of labor between reporters and re-write men, female journalists, the descent of good newspapermen into press agents, the role of photography and photographers, the birth of radio news, and the newly founded schools of journalism with their graduates "pestering city editors for jobs that do not exist".
[15] One passage that escaped contemporary reviewer's notice concerned the future of newspapers in the radio age when television still existed only in the laboratory.
A return to the breezy anecdotal style of his first book, it recounted unusual personalities who made the news for a variety of bizarre and sometimes criminal circumstances.