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There are few sights more frightening than a tall, slightly off-kilter man jumping from desk to desk in a windowless newsroom, leapfrogging monitors and knocking papers and coffee cups to the floor while bassless music blasts from computer speakers. Grumbling from his desk in the corner of the newsroom, Gellis chugs his Diet Coke and yells across the newsroom to comment on a conversation that no one thought he could hear. A huge fan of fierce debates, Gellis sticks his head anywhere, even if he knows the welcoming won’t be warm. When FM gets in content...
...only led me to willingly relinquish 50 hours a week to the paper, but brought me into a circle of the most amazingly warm, bright and dorky-fun people around. Where else could you play a game of keep-away with a stuffed animal, perform pirouettes around the newsroom in a dilapidated office chair, choreograph a routine to “Blinded by the Light” with a desk lamp or have philosophical discussions at 5 a.m. while massaging a cantankerous film processor...
Mention Jannie to any FMer and they’ll instantly think of her smile. In a building where effervescence is sometimes in short supply, Jannie’s ready grin lights up the newsroom. Her never-ending energy will serve the new guard well in the long nights that lie ahead, and her dynamic diligence will ensure every page sparkles with polished perfection. Jannie recently wrote a cover story on the rise of meditation at Harvard, and it’s clear that she shares some of its practitioners’ tranquility and togetherness...
...covered the shooting in the quaint days before cable news and mobile satellite crews. A TV cameraman inside the book depository had to throw his tape out the window so it could be rushed to the studio, and Walter Cronkite recalls that CBS had no camera ready in its newsroom for his reading of the bulletin. This is an intriguing piece for news junkies, but it's curious that CNN should air it, since the dignity of men like Cronkite (and they are all men here) is a rebuke to today's 24-hour news culture. Announcing J.F.K.'s death...
During his undergraduate years,Solomon was an editor of Fifteen Minutes, the Crimson’s weekly magazine. His former Crimson colleagues recall his sense of humor in the newsroom and his strong leadership skills...