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SENIOR EDITORS: Lee Aitken, Charles P. Alexander, Howard Chua-Eoan, James Collins, Marta Fitzgerald Dorion (Operations), Nancy Gibbs, Bruce Handy, Johanna McGeary, Priscilla Painton, Barrett Seaman (Special Projects...
SENIOR EDITORS: Lee Aitken, Charles P. Alexander, Howard Chua-Eoan, James Collins, Marta Fitzgerald Dorion (Operations), Nancy Gibbs, Bruce Handy, Johanna McGeary, Priscilla Painton, Barrett Seaman (Special Projects...
SENIOR EDITORS: Lee Aitken, Charles P. Alexander, Howard Chua-Eoan, James Collins, Marta Fitzgerald Dorion (Operations), Nancy Gibbs, Bruce Handy, Johanna McGeary, Priscilla Painton, Barrett Seaman (Special Projects...
Were her new TIME colleagues surprised? Not a bit. Aitken, after all, came to us after seven years at our corporate-cousin publication PEOPLE, where she built her reputation by deftly managing first the magazine's book and theater departments, then its news sections. She edited dozens of PEOPLE cover stories, including those on the Polly Klaas kidnapping and the Baby Jessica DeBoer case. The latter was particularly meaningful to Aitken, a single parent who adopted her daughter Sophie, 3, in Bulgaria after a two-year search for a child. "Lee has an amazing way of expanding the dimensions...
Harvard-educated, Aitken was managing editor of the political weekly In These Times and a founding editor of New England Monthly. "I've done policy journalism and what's called personality journalism," she says, "and I think my assignment at TIME can combine the best of both: putting a human face on issues and finding the lessons for us all in personal tragedies like Susan Smith...