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John Charles Bryan (November 12, 1934 – February 1, 2007) was an American newspaper publisher, editor and journalist who was best known for founding and running the Los Angeles alternative newspaper ''Open City''. 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''. He quit The ''San Francisco Chronicle'' in 1964 in order to found the tabloid weekly ''Open City Press''. ''Open City Press'' covered San Francisco's bohemian community. Bryan published 15 issues between November 18, 1964 to March 17–23, 1965.〔("John Bryan–writer, editor, valued underground press" ) by Carl Nolte, ''San Francisco Chronicle'', Feb. 11, 2007. Retrieved Sept. 5, 2010.〕 ''Open City Press'' was a local forerunner of the ''Berkeley Barb'', providing coverage of the Free Speech Movement. It was a one-man operation. 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.〔''The Underground Press in America'' by Robert J. Glessing. (Indiana Univ. Press, 1971), p. 42.〕 ==Los Angeles== After the closure of ''Open City Press'' Bryan relocated to Southern California. After a stint working for Art Kunkin as managing editor of the ''Los Angeles Free Press'', he launched ''Open City'' in Los Angeles, starting the volume numbering with vol. 2, no. 1 (May 5–11, 1967). The newspaper is best remembered for publishing the "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" column by Charles Bukowski. In March 1968, he was prosecuted on an obscenity charge for printing an image of a nude woman in a record company advertisement for Leon Russell. Six months later, in September 1968, there was a second obscenity bust over the short story "Skinny Dynamite" by Jack Micheline, about the sexual antics of an underage girl, in ''Renaissance 2'', a literary supplement to ''Open City'' edited by Bukowski. Bukowski had solicited the story from Micheline. The cost of Bryan's legal defense and a $1,000 fine on the first charge eventually put the shoestring operation out of business. At its peak ''Open City'' circulated 35,000 copies. Unlike almost all other underground papers which were published in tabloid newspaper format, ''Open City'' was printed in the larger broadsheet-sized format. After the paper folded, Bukowski published a satirical and somewhat cruel fictional account of ''Open City'' in ''Evergreen Review'' under the title "The Birth, Life and Death of an Underground Newspaper." 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「John Bryan (journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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