Word: editor-in-chief
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...SENTENCED. BAMBANG HARYMURTI, 47, editor-in-chief of the Indonesian daily Tempo; to one year in prison for libel; in Jakarta. The court ruled that the Harvard-educated editor was guilty of "spreading wrongful information" about real estate tycoon Tomy Winata in a March 2003 story. Activists have decried the sentence as a blow to press freedom, criticizing the use of Indonesia's criminal code to prosecute a libel case. "The judges had a golden opportunity to write a new chapter in Indonesian history, but they did not take it," said Harymurti, who remains free pending appeal...
...began sending unsolicited articles to the opinion page of the Australian newspaper. They were earnest and written in a plain style, usually about health, education or economic policy. As the then editor of the page, I was struck by the way this fellow threw himself into the policy debate, and impressed by how he would good-naturedly accept rejection. At a time when the paper's editor-in-chief demanded "names," why would anyone care what an obscure 33-year-old Labor operative called Mark Latham...
...television means that a picture of Greg Norman the paper's been chasing since late afternoon is on its way. It's a long time since 7 a.m., when Whittaker's daily immersion in news begins: 11 papers online at home over breakfast, perhaps a call from editor-in-chief Chris Mitchell who's out walking the dogs, then another newspaper on the bus into work. Every night he bins a stack of papers and printouts on his way out the door, and every morning the blank layouts of another day's paper are waiting for him. He's ringmaster...
...forward scouts. Ideas, tip-offs, leads and hunches start rolling in as Whittaker's morning gathers speed. Near him pictorial editor Paul Burston is working out assignments for the paper's 25 photographers around the country, having already sifted through the 1,000 or so images that have come in overnight from agencies around the world: "If you miss a news story, you're stuffed." When Mitchell took over in late 2002 as the paper's editor-in-chief, he promised a renewed focus on breaking important stories. "We have to break stories, get them right, and get them...
...line about nude photographs, and everyone assumed that would be the sole goal and purpose of the magazine—to parade Harvard’s sexuality around,” Cieplak-von Baldegg, also editor-in-chief of the magazine, said of the original proposal for the publication. “The real purpose was to have a verbal discussion of sex, because basically any intelligent discussion about it is really lacking from campus...