Word: editor
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...news reporter and editor for more than 50 years, I feel that newspapers can save themselves. How about concentrating on purely local news instead of trying to reflect what readers saw on cable TV the day before? Publish local school lunch menus, city-hall doings and, yes, local police and court reports. As for coverage from Baghdad and Kabul, editors can rely on the Associated Press and other news organizations with respected reporters. Gang reporting wastes time and money. Frank Real, Palmer, Mass...
...Bush's chosen theme, Michael Coffey, the executive managing editor of Publishers Weekly, says it reminds him of a book penned by another President who was trying to salvage his reputation: Richard Nixon's 1962 bestseller, Six Crises, in which he tried to set the record straight about such uncomfortable topics as the Checkers speech and his role in the Alger Hiss case. "The fact that Bush is apparently structuring his memoir around a number of key decisions that he made, to me strikes a similar chord with Nixon's approach," Coffey says. "I don't imagine that Bush...
...Though they share the same publisher, Bush and Obama won't be vying for the attention of the same editor. Bush will be edited by Sean Desmond, who has had edited such conservative authors as Pat Buchanan and Ann Coulter. Obama's editor is Crown's Rachel Klayman, who has shepherded bestselling books by authors such as John Robison and Cathy Black. The folks at Crown are confident their publishing house is big enough to accomodate all views from the White House. "Crown really prides itself on publishing a diversity of viewpoints," says a Crown spokesman. "So we think that...
...copy was taken verbatim from the St. Petersburg Times, Huffington says that the story drew from several sources - and that they don't mind. "We drive millions of page views to people who produce content," she says, "and we get a hundred requests a day from editors and reporters to link to them." Not everyone is so thrilled. "HuffPo regularly borrows a chunk of our stories and repays us with a tiny link at the bottom," says a prominent Web editor. "It's a practice that really annoys...
...young girl who channels her fear about her mother’s cancer diagnosis into an obsession with “bloodthirsty” and “scary” animals. The $1000 prize—which was established in 2000 in honor of former Harvard Advocate editor and contributor Louis Begley ’54—is awarded by the Advocate’s Board of Trustees each year to the best undergraduate fiction piece published in the Advocate, the College’s quarterly literary magazine. Over two dozen students and faculty members crowded into...