Word: editor
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Dietrick Thomsen, senior editor of Science News, best characterized these devotees when he said...
Might there not be another, darker Plimpton hiding behind the genteel journalist-at-large who just happens to do unusual and sometimes dangerous things out of dedication to his line of work? Plimpton founded and was for a time editor of the Paris Review, which suggests literary ambitions greater than his success in the somewhat limited area of "participatory journalism." Yet not a hint of jealousy shows as he discusses the idiosyncrasies and foibles of great writers he has known--Hemingway, Mailer, Marianne Moore. Neither does Plimpton give himself the airs of a celebrity, though he is certainly more entitled...
...story was researched by Senior Researcher Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and written by Associate Editor William E. Smith, who was Nairobi bureau chief in the 1960s and has written many of our Africa stories during the past eight years. "When I arrived in Africa, there were already hints of this drama," recalls Smith. "The tension has been building there for a long time, and it is heightened by the fact that all the principals involved are so passionately and irrevocably committed." That passion and commitment have made South Africa one of the most important political stories in the world today...
...shame that a good show like Lou Grant is not a big success. Well, let the yahoos have their violence and jiggly sex; I would rather watch a personable newspaper editor...
...outcome, both sides would feel better if the Supreme Court some day settled the question of whether a journalist can be forced to divulge his thoughts and opinions. "As long as the question is open," says Lando, "any time a reporter sits down to discuss something with his editor, he'll keep in the back of his mind the thought that in a year or so he may have to repeat the conversation in court...