Word: kouri
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...picks those that will be published. A digest of the week's letters is also distributed to TIME'S editors and news bureaus. All letters are acknowledged, and those that question the tone, emphasis or factual content of a story are answered by Cisneros, her deputy, Isabel Kouri, or one of six letters correspondents. More and more, Cisneros and her co-workers are finding that the letters are thoughtful, and require thoughtful replies. Says Cisneros: "Our writers are much more serious now. They really mean business." All of which pleases the writers and editors of TIME...
Every letter we get (an average of 1,200 per week) goes to Maria Luisa Cisneros and her staff of nine, who answer the mail, analyze trends and distribute excerpts of the most interesting letters among TIME's staff. Isabel Kouri, a letters correspondent since 1960, answers mail critical of our Watergate coverage. "A striking number of readers are worrying about the image of the presidency itself," she says. Last week she wrote to one such reader: "It seems to us that in the long run, competent, thorough, honest and aggressive news reporting is the servant of the national...
Only a small number of our readers' letters can be printed, and each week Reporter-Researcher Nancy Chase culls the mail for a representative and interesting sample. But all correspondence is answered. Miss Cisneros' staffers make a rough division by subject matter. Isabel Kouri, for instance, specializes in national affairs; Barbara Storfer in foreign news, science and environment...
Among those who contributed are Writers BJ. Phillips, Edwin Warner, Lee Griggs and William Barnes, and Reporter-Researchers Marguerite Michaels, Robert Goldstein, Isabel Kouri, Jean Vallely and Linda Young. But both this week and last, the demanding job of pulling the disparate pieces together in a cover story fell to the same team...