Word: boyd
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During his 20 years at the helm of the Knight Ridder bureau, Boyd presided over an expansion in which the D.C. team grew from a staff of seven to more than...
...antithesis of the sort of ego-driven Washington bureau chief who stepped all over his reporters," says James McCartney, a 25-year Knight Ridder veteran columnist and reporter who worked under Boyd. "He was the best editor I ever...
According to McCartney, Boyd's linguistic gift as a political storyteller was closely connected to his "low key" nature...
...hallmark of Bob Boyd's writing," McCartney says, "is that he can explain in simple and understandable language very un-understandable things...
...Boyd's understated style-McCartney remembers one day walking into his own office to find the bureau chief vacuuming it-never compromised the tenacity of his reporting, according to his colleagues and competitors. Washington Post reporter David Broder says his colleague brings tremendous energy to his work...