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Stormy resignations in Atlanta and Boston raise concerns that the traditional division between a newspaper' s business and editorial departments is beginning to blur...
...Richard Hornik, Jay Peterzell, Elaine Shannon, Alessandra Stanley, Dick Thompson, Nancy Traver New York: Bonnie Angelo, Joelle Attinger, Eugene Linden, Thomas McCarroll, Raji Samghabadi, | Janice C. Simpson, Martha Smilgis, Wayne Svoboda Boston: Robert Ajemian, Sam Allis, Melissa Ludtke Chicago: Gavin Scott, Barbara Dolan, Elizabeth Taylor Detroit: B. Russell Leavitt Atlanta: Joseph J. Kane, Don Winbush Houston: Richard Woodbury Miami: Cristina Garcia Los Angeles: Jordan Bonfante, Jonathan Beaty, Scott Brown, Elaine Dutka, S. C. Gwynne, Jeanne McDowell, Michael Riley, James Willwerth, Denise Worrell San Francisco: Paul A. Witteman
...editor David Anable and assistant managing editor David Winder all resigned. The immediate cause: the announcement by the managers of the 80-year-old church-owned paper of plans to reduce the Monitor's size, run less breaking news and cut the staff by one- fourth. Earlier this month, Atlanta Journal and Constitution editor Bill Kovach quit in a dispute with owner Cox Enterprises over the control of budgets, staffing and Washington reporting. Although the two cases differ in specific respects, both boil down to a single issue: management's role in determining the editorial direction of the papers...
Kovach, a highly respected New York Times bureau chief, was recruited by Cox two years ago to revive the flagging fortunes of the Atlanta papers. After beefing up the staff and running hard-hitting stories on such powerful local institutions as Coca-Cola and the Georgia Power Co., says Kovach, the papers' managers began urging shorter, softer stories in the mold of USA Today. Finally, following a showdown with the publisher over control of the papers' Washington bureau, Kovach quit...
...departure sparked a high level of emotion. Some 200 Kovach supporters staged a mock funeral in downtown Atlanta, protesting the "death of a free press." Last week assistant managing editor Dudley Clendinen announced his resignation, complaining of the "continuing collision" between corporate and editorial factions. Management, he said, "sees readers as a market, as opposed to people who need information...