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...newsroom staff at the Kansas City Star and Times was in an uproar last week over a memo from Publisher James Hale. Responding to a suggestion from Thomas Murphy, chairman of Capital Cities/ABC, the New York City-based owners of the papers, Hale told employees that drug-sniffing dogs might be used at the Missouri papers as part of a company-wide program to fight narcotics abuse...
...Soviets also beat the Americans to the briefing room. As early as last Tuesday, a Soviet newsroom at the International Press Center was clicking with computers and copiers. The Soviets even decorated the corridor walls with framed photographs of Gorbachev and Reagan in Geneva under the neatly stenciled label AMERICAN-SOVIET RELATIONS. Soviet officials offered daily briefings for news-starved correspondents. "I welcome you with all my heart to this press center," said the grayhaired Soviet propagandist Albert Vlasov with perhaps a trifle too much earnestness...
...timing of the announcement was his idea: "I was itching to get on to writing the column." Some Times veterans wonder how well Frankel, who has been removed from day-to-day news coverage for 13 years, will handle the rough-and-tumble of the Times's third-floor newsroom. Yet his journalistic credentials are impeccable (he won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of President Nixon's trip to China in 1972). Some predict that Frankel will nudge the Times away from Rosenthal's more feature-oriented approach and back toward a more traditional hard-news emphasis. "I would...
...patient, low-key man, Frankel (whose relations with Rosenthal are said to be cool) is expected to calm the newsroom waters. "Consensus is his middle name," says a colleague. His selection, Times watchers say, was a politic one for Publisher Sulzberger. "I think it turned on whom Punch knew best," says one Times executive, "and who would go down well with the rest of the stockholders in the family...
...editors can, of necessity, spend no more than a year in their position; there is never more than four years of institutional memory to guide us. Some mistakes are those of exhaustion or the exigencies of making fast-paced decisions—after hours cooped up in a windowless newsroom, breathing only the aroma of stale pizza and rotting Kong food, that late-night call can seem a little silly, or worse, the next day. And some, of course, are of hubris. Occasionally we prioritize getting every last detail into a story, or writing every story involving an undergraduate?...