Word: hathway
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...skillful mix of local, national and foreign coverage, almost always clearly and concisely written. Newsday's reporting of state politics, for example, is consistently more searching than that of the New York City dailies. "A story for this paper has to be angled sharply," explains Executive Editor Alan Hathway. "The morning papers have had a shot at it, television has had a shot at it. We have to assume one of two things: no one has seen the story or read anything; or they have both seen and read about it. Either way we have an extra...
...turn out Newsday are trained on the job in the paper's brisk style. Though Newsday is published just outside New York City, it has hired few experienced reporters from New York publications. "We get our best people from middle-sized papers in middle-sized towns," says Hathway. "Towns like Charlotte, N.C., or Columbus, Ohio, have given us better reporters," adds Managing Editor Bill Mcllwain. "They're a little bit hungrier, and they don't come on like a bunch of old China hands doing you a favor...