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...first met Grove 17 years ago while working at the Wall Street Journal. The Journal's management was proud of its resistance to technology in those days, so reporters and editors worked with manual typewriters, carbon paper and No. 2 pencils. As we were walking through the newsroom, Grove stopped to peer into the wire room, a small area overstuffed with fax and teletype machines, and exclaimed, "This is absolutely incredible equipment! In fact, it should be in the Smithsonian." That and subsequent conversations with Andy over the years taught me to appreciate his wit and his wisdom and sensitized...
...Newsroom Its final episodes were too bizarre, but for most of its run on PBS, this Canadian series about the news department of a TV station was balanced perfectly between reality and parody. Filmed in documentary style, it achieved some brilliant moments of deadpan humor, and Ken Finkleman, the show's creator, played the news director with a wicked combination of egotism, pettiness and desperation. Imagine Broadcast News meets Spinal...
...from detailing specifically what was said, suffice it to say that threatening to rape and kill employees and their families in what the Boston Herald termed "shockingly graphic" terms does not constitute "swearing." This type of sexual and racial harassment would not be tolerated at Harvard University, in any newsroom in the country or indeed at any workplace. The National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency charged with the oversight of labor disputes, investigated this misconduct by the union and the striking employees and has issued a lengthy complaint against the union because of this unlawful harassment, threats, intimidation...
Alarmists in the newsroom feared that Willes, an economist by training, might appoint himself editor. Instead he anointed the respected (and reassuringly rumpled) Michael Parks, the paper's 53-year-old managing editor (and a Pulitzer-prizewinning foreign correspondent). Coffey tried to put on a good face, saying he needed "a breather" after an eight-year run that included the O.J. Simpson trial, fires, floods, racial tensions inside and outside the newsroom--and four Pulitzers. But his goodbye statement spoke volumes: "There's a season for everything," he said, "and mine here has ended--happily, proudly, in midstride...
...with the advertising side to goose circulation and revenues. That blurs the age-old separation between reporters with tough stories to tell and admen selling space to companies the paper covers. Last week three senior business executives took on new editorial responsibilities, to the dismay of traditionalists in the newsroom...