Word: editor
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Early in his detailed and gossipy book on The New York Times, Gay Talese describes the tension in The Times's newsroom on the day its editors had to decide whether to print secret information on the Bay of Pigs invasion, and if so, how. Rarely does an American newspaper need to weigh its First Amendment rights against such "national security" concerns--only once in a newsman's career, perhaps--and so when it does the decision can cause even a seasoned editor, as Talese puts it--paraphrasing Times editor Clifton Daniel---"to quiver with emotion and turn 'dead white...
Benjamin Pogrund wonders at this sort of fuss. In Johannesburg, South Africa, at The Rand Daily Mail (where Pogrund works as Associate Editor, third in command), decisions of this type--whether to or how much of a story to run, while trying to avoid a judicial run-in with the government--occur every day, and nobody bats an eyelash...
...American National Press or "Emperor" award for 1966 went to The Mail, South Africa's most widely read morning publication, and the paper still carries the award emblem above the masthead each day. The same front page, however, carries a box every day with the name of the Editor, Raymond Lauw; of each editorial writer for that day and of the newsman who wrote all the day's headlines...
...year campaign stalwart for former Governor Endicott "Chub" Peabody, O'Neil was rewarded in the mid-'60's with a position on the three-member Boston Liquor Licensing Commission. Later, he became its chairman. During his tenure on the commission, O'Neil got into a feud with a newspaper editor whose paper had slandered Dapper on several occasions. The editor was allegedly having an affair with a Chinese woman, and the politician drove around the paper's building shouting through a megaphone "...likes Chinese food, he eats Chinese every chance he gets...
...three law students expressed confidence in their futures. Susan Estrich, a third-year Law student, said when she entered Harvard, a professor told her that "women just don't excel here." Last spring, Estrich was named the first woman editor in chief of the Harvard Law Review...