Word: fancher
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...Michael Fancher, executive editor of the Seattle Times, is the very model of a modern newspaper editor. At his publisher's urging, Fancher completed an M.B.A. program at the University of Washington before taking over the newsroom in 1986. He insists that the degree was not meant to groom him for a future job on the business side of the paper but to make him a better editor. "Editors need to be involved with people in other departments to win their support for the content," he explains. "A lot of journalists feel that the journalistic significance of what...
...style, independent-minded editors like Fanning and Kovach, such compromises are intolerable. But others argue that the rules of journalism have changed, and there is simply no going back. Says Fancher: "An editor who says to the publisher, 'I just want to concern myself with what's happening; you worry about making money' -- that editor doesn't last long." On the other hand, it is important for publishers to realize that quality and integrity are in themselves good investments, even if they sometimes hurt the short-term bottom line. "If the measuring stick is only profit," says Burl Osborne...
Says John Morton of Lynch, Jones & Ryan: "U.P.I, is like a second newspaper-dispensable." In any case, even Ruhe and Geissler admit that U.P.I.'s hopes rest on the question of how many editors share the journalistic judgment of Michael Fancher, managing editor of the Seattle Times. Says Fancher: "We cannot live without A.P, but we equally cannot live with only A.P." -By William A. Henry III. Reported by David Dawson/Memphis and Janice C. Simpson/New York
BLADE RUNNER Directed by Ridley Scott Screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples...