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...many things were running through my head amid the cheers and champagne in the newsroom. I remembered my first visit to The Crimson, where John Trainer and Y. Tarek Farouki, the sports editors at the time, pitched the idea of comping sports to me. I remembered my first game story--a field hockey story for which I was so nervous that I prepared a detailed list of 20 (!) questions for Harvard coach Sue Caples. (I didn't even know the rules of field hockey.) I remembered my wonder and amazement as I became an executive for the first time...
...stated that at the Philadelphia Inquirer, there are fears about lowering the "wall between 'church' and 'state'--the editorial side and the business side"--and as evidence cited the presence of circulation managers at news meetings. What a shock! Circulation staff have been meeting with newsroom personnel since the 1980s, when the editor of the paper was in charge of the circulation department as well as the newsroom. If the wall got lowered, it happened then. You also reported that budget trimming at the Inquirer denied reporters access to telephone directory assistance, long-distance calls and funds to travel...
...peak form--trying, for example, to foment a rebellion among his co-workers against "Evita in there" after they've been thoroughly snowed by their new boss. Steenburgen needs to spend a few hours at the word processor before she'll convince us that she belongs inside a newsroom, but she plays off him well. The secondary characters are better than their pilot predecessors as well, largely because most of them (like the mousy business reporter played by Saul Rubinek) aren't pushed on us too hard. The one exception is Christine Ebersole as a brassy nightlife reporter...
...recession in the early 1990s: retailing, then retail advertising, then newspapers dependent on such advertising suffered, and profits fell. Ridder insists that the financial pressures on all papers tend to be cyclical and that in fact Knight-Ridder has recently upped the percentage of revenue it spends in the newsroom. Journalists who complain about cost cutting, says Ridder, "have very short memories...
...operations into close contact with one another. Nine companies, including Hearst, the New York Times Co. and the Washington Post Co., are participating in the New Century Network, a project that connects local papers. The privately held Newhouse chain, which owns 26 daily papers, while pouring money into its newsroom operations at New Jersey's Star-Ledger, in Newark, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, is also giving its online services a push. "What we are trying to do is reinvent the paper to the extent it is necessary to come up with a product that people in the '90s think...