Word: mcmullan
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There was nothing routine about the retirement at the Miami Herald this month when Executive Editor John McMullan, 62, ended more than 30 years of crusading against crime and exposing the permissive foibles of Miami's hustlers, hoodlums and hoodwinking officeholders. If his retirement was not exactly the end of an era, it was certainly a milestone in Miami's 87-year history...
...Under McMullan's one-man rule over both the news and editorial departments, the Herald (circ. 443,000) often managed the difficult feat of remaining fresh and vigorous while dominating its market and growing rich. McMullan also set a rarer standard among U.S. dailies: a newspaper that consistently is crisply written, carefully edited and cleanly organized. The lively news town and the combative editor were made for each other, and McMullan molded the Herald for the town. Says City Manager Howard Gary: "McMullan is the conscience that all cities need." Adds Kurt Luedtke, a former Herald colleague and author...
...state; it produces zoned editions for city neighborhoods and suburbs, a daily version translated into Spanish, and a special Latin American edition distributed to 40 cities in 31 countries. The Herald covers Latin America and the Caribbean as well as any paper in the U.S. Says Executive Editor John McMullan: "If you don't put out a good newspaper in Florida, somebody else will...
...experience of the reporter, the nature of the source's information and the likely consequences of the story. Although only a handful of newspapers have written policies on the use of unnamed sources, many editors insist on being told who the source is. Says Miami Herald Editor John McMullan: "Editors ought to run the newspapers, and that means insisting on credible sources known to them. It's part of the checks and balances of the newspaper." Adds New York Times Editor A.M. Rosenthal: "If a reporter wouldn't give [his source] to me, I wouldn...