Word: editor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meant business came when plainclothes police two weeks ago arrested four prominent human rights activists as they tried to paste up a wall poster that denounced the authorities for repression. The activists belong to a group that publishes a clandestine journal called Inquiry. Protesting the arrest of its own editor, Wei Jingsheng, 29, the journal complained: "Where is freedom of speech in China? All criticism is fiercely suppressed as contrary to socialism and to the dictatorship of the proletariat. What brutal hypocrisy!" A wall poster responding to Deng's speech sneered that he and his Politburo cronies were "successors...
...such tones did Managing Editor Walter Burns make his wishes known to Reporter Hildy Johnson in that 1928 Broadway classic The Front Page. Generations of fire-breathing editors have embraced this persuasive management technique, but one news'executive is flirting with an unusual alternative: democracy. At the Minneapolis Star (circ. 226,828), rank-and-file editorial employees have been given an active role in deciding how to reshape their foundering evening paper...
...outside agitator who introduced the Star to "participatory management," as the arrangement is called, is Stephen D. Isaacs, 41, former Washington Post Wunderkind (metropolitan editor at 26) and most recently director of the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service. When Isaacs became the Star's editor a year ago, the paper was, in the words of Publisher Donald R. Dwight, 48, "a warmed-over daily news report that was neither timely nor very interesting." The Star had lost 75,000 subscribers since the 1950s. Last July, for the first time in its 59 years, the paper fell behind...
...their original audience, the postwar baby-boom generation now moving into its 30s. At Denver's Straight Creek Journal and Seattle's Weekly, the average reader's age is 35. "Politics doesn't sell on the front page since Viet Nam," says Bruce Brugmann, 43, editor and publisher of the San Francisco Bay Guardian (circ. 35,000). "We put politics on the front page, but we have to highlight it with where to find the best sandwich...
Alternative papers have become so respectable that some of their editors are beginning to feel uneasy. Says Mike Lene-han, 30, associate editor of the Chicago Reader: "As we've become more professional, we don't stoop so low-but we don't soar as often either." At the National Association of Alternative Newsweeklies' annual convention last month at Boston's elegant Parker House, the nonstop chatter about special advertising sections and "upscale demographics" finally touched off a flurry of selfcriticism. "I get this vision of [readers as] some sort of sausage, into which...