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International Editor Jesse Birnbaum, who was assisted by Reporter-Researcher Nancy Newman, flew to Washington last week for Rostropovich's premiere concert as musical director and had a similar feeling as he began writing this story. Says Birnbaum: "With Rostropovich, there is his beautiful music, but there is also the man-his poverty as a boy, his great triumphs, his struggle with Soviet authorities, his coming to America. It's a remarkable tale...
Nobody can say she didn't try. Two years ago Jacqueline Onassis joined Viking Press as a consulting editor. Several months ago, however, Viking purchased a potboiler entitled Shall We Tell the President?, a fictional account of an assassination attempt on Teddy Kennedy. "When told of the book, I tried to separate my lives as a Viking employee and a Kennedy relative," said Jackie. Last week New York Times Critic John Leonard called the book "trash" and in a cutting aside added: "Any body associated with its publication should be ashamed of herself." Jackie's resolve dwindled. Said...
Publishers generally applaud the use of news consultants as an easy way of keeping in touch with the territory. Editors often resent them. "A publisher comes in and wags his finger in the air and tells you there's something wrong with your paper, and he's bringing in this expert to tell you how to straighten it out," says Chicago Daily News Editor in Chief Jim Hoge, who has generally ignored the advice Frank Magid has given his paper during its recent radical redesign. "Before you know it, the expert starts telling you which is left...
...important. Those notions are not always mutually exclusive. The Los Angeles Times paid $35,000 this year to have Lieberman Research West, Inc., find out how the paper could be revamped to win new subscribers. One Lieberman recommendation has been adopted: folding subscription cards into the paper. Reports Editor William F. Thomas: "We found that what our market wants most out of the newspaper is what we basically produce: news...
More and more, Qoboza and his paper became the voice of the black community, taking a clear stand in the struggle against the white minority regime, Obed Kunene, editor of a smaller against the white minority regime, Obed Kunene, editor of a smaller black South African paper and a Nieman fellow this year, said this week...