Word: kann
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...look at, especially on its tombstone-like front page. Photographs appear only in advertisements, and illustration is limited to a handful of line drawings. The emphasis on copy allows the paper to cram its coverage and extensive stock and bond tables into about 22 pages of news space. Says Kann: "We recognize that the paper should not grow too big-it would lose its convenience and utility...
Under the new team of Associate Publisher Peter Kann, 41, and Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine, 41, the Journal is becoming more inclusive and expanding the editorial staff to about 400. Says Kann: "The interests of American business people are not just in profit and loss but in government, the environment, equality in society, international affairs." The Journal has begun to show more interest in popular culture: last year Arts Editor Manuela Hoelterhoff won a Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and reviews are the centerpiece of a new daily arts and leisure page. The political writing of Washington Bureau Chief Albert Hunt...
...stories focused on social change. But as economic and energy problems grew, and as other newspapers stepped up their coverage of business news, the Journal began concentrating more on its original franchise. "It's a much more topical, competitive newspaper than it used to be," says Peter R. Kann, a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter, who became associate publisher last year. "We want to be first and best on the stories that matter to our readers...