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...CLAIMING VICTORY in John R. Lakian's recent lawsuit against The Boston Globe, Globe Editor Michael C. Janeway proudly called the jury's decision a victory for the press because the article in question was found to be "substantially true...
...successor is Sunday Managing Editor Michael Janeway, 44, who joined the paper in 1978 after a decade as a top editor at the Atlantic and a stint as an aide to Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. Said Publisher William Taylor, whose family has owned and run the Globe since its inception in 1872: "Mike shares Tom's strong commitment to tackle the problems of the city, and has a lot of his sense of outrage." Janeway triumphed in a two-year power struggle that divided the staff. When word circulated last year that he might be the heir apparent...
...contrast in style between the two editors could hardly be more acute. Winship is elfin, effervescent, demonstrative and unassumingly rumpled. He tells stories of his financially modest youth and calls himself a "swamp Yankee." Janeway is shy, sardonic, reserved and elegant. He has the seigneurial manner befitting a son of Economics Columnist Eliot Janeway and Author Elizabeth Janeway (Powers of the Weak). Perhaps the only obvious characteristic the men share is that like dozens of their staffers they are graduates of Harvard, yet they agree on the problems the paper must correct...
...Globe's foremost problem is self-righteousness and lack of restraint. When the paper campaigned for handgun control and a bottle bill, it ran hundreds of "news" stories that openly argued its views. Globe-endorsed candidates seem to receive more sympathetic news treatment than their rivals. Janeway concedes that the paper has a "cacophony of columnists" and undervalues reporting. Cultural and life-style coverage has sagged. On local news, the Globe is too often scooped by its sole surviving Boston rival, the Herald (circ. 344,000), which has been revivified since it was bought in December 1982 by Australian...
...problem Janeway does not face is a lack of resources: the Globe's parent company has made a pretax profit of $40 million for the first nine months of 1984. He recognizes the paper's complex and imperfect character. "I want to nourish the traditions of individuality and crusading," he says, "but I may put greater emphasis on other flags we salute, such as consistency and keeping opinion out of the news columns." Adds Winship modestly: "Mike may be better at keeping the paper steady than...