Word: editor
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WHEN DONALD WOODS, the government-banned former editor of one of South Africa's leading opposition papers and one of the country's most outspoken white liberals, fled the apartheid regime over Christmas, he did not know where he was going. Although he apparently finished his book on Steve Biko recently, he was not sure how he could continue to press for change from outside South Africa...
Donald Woods, former editor of a leading South African opposition newspaper, recently accepted the post of visiting Nieman fellow for the term of July 1, 1978 to June 1979, James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman Foundation, said yesterday...
Civility may be in retreat on other fronts, but most newspapers still routinely decline to print the names of alleged rape victims. That courtesy is seldom required by law and rarely afforded the victims of other crimes. Herman J. Obermayer, 53, editor and publisher of the Northern Virginia Sun, an evening daily that goes to 20,000 households just south of the nation's capital, thinks it is time the custom ended...
Journalists generally decry the Sun doctrine. "Obermayer's making a mistake," says the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee. "It's wrong. It's misguided. We wouldn't do it." Yet some might. "We're rethinking our whole position," says Dave Lanzettel, city editor of the Portland (Me.) Express, which last year identified a 27-year-old rape victim. The Boston Globe names names when the victim is well known. Says Ombudsman Charles Whipple: "If the Governor's daughter were raped, don't think we wouldn't print...
DIED. Harry Freeman, 71, Brooklyn-born managing editor in the U.S. for Tass, the Soviet news agency; of cancer; in Manhattan. After working for such leftist publications as the New Masses and the Daily Worker, Freeman joined Tass in 1929, writing about many aspects of American life for Soviet readers. In testimony before a Senate investigation committee in 1956. he took the Fifth Amendment when questioned about espionage activity...