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...case, when a reporter reached a reluctant victim, her first words were, "For three years, I've told myself that when this phone call came, I would hang up." (She didn't.) Far from being used by Adams' enemies, the paper itself initiated the probe. Says executive editor Michael Fancher: "Obviously, we would have preferred to run a story naming names. But the choice we faced was either silence or this story. And we decided that it was too important, and we were too sure of the truth, to be silent...
...November of last year, a chance conversation between Fancher and reporters about the moral leadership role of a newspaper prompted him to authorize one last try. Three veteran reporters -- Pulitzer prizewinner Eric Nalder, 46, and Susan Gilmore and Eric Pryne, both 41 -- were told to reexamine their leads. To break the logjam, editors decided that signed statements from the accusers would serve as a compromise between the identification the paper wanted and the anonymity the accusers sought. A week before the story went to press, Fancher says, "we looked at what we had and said...
...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