Word: newsroomful
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...newspapers are apt to feel besmirched by libel trials. The prudent course would be to mollify an aggrieved party before he sues, but just the opposite usually happens: a person who calls a newspaper to ask for a retraction or a correction finds his call impatiently shunted around the newsroom by people busy getting out the next edition. He was hurt and upset when he placed the call; when he hangs up he is angry and ready to sue. What began as a "golden opportunity for the press" ends up as one for a lawyer. This is the conclusion...
Neuharth, of course, is asking himself the same question, but he is determined to see it through. USA Today, after all, is Neuharth's dream. During the paper's first six months, the indefatigable onetime sportswriter for the Mitchell, S.D. Republic stayed every night in the newsroom until 1 or 2 a.m., editing stories and dashing off headlines. Once, when he found a story "too damn long-winded," he banged out a new version on his typewriter...
Though Neuharth no longer haunts the newsroom, he still speaks with Editor Quinn half a dozen times a week. He has enough confidence in the paper to plan the opening of four printing plants by year's end, which will bring the nationwide total to 30. He launched an international edition of USA Today last year (15,000 copies sold a day, in Europe and the Middle East) and plans to increase the newspaper's maximum length from 48 pages to 56 in November. Perhaps most important of all, despite USA Today's substantial losses the Gannett Co. chalked...
...Using the word ‘balance’ is kind of an internal jargon that we use here in the newsroom,” she said. “What it means really is looking for another voice out there...
...NEWSROOM HAS NO WINDOWS