Word: newsroomful
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...commonly accepted among liberal and conservative journalists alike that diversity in the newsroom enhances diversity and quality of news coverage. At The Crimson, this is the case to an unusually high degree...
...things done," he says. This works better on the business side, he admits, where he has been able to wipe out layers of middle management, and less well on the editorial side, where executive editor Max Frankel joked on the day Sulzberger was named publisher that the newsroom would remain a monarchy...
...Sulzberger's most notable efforts has been to increase diversity in the newsroom. "Anyone can buy a fancy press," Sulzberger says. "The race is for new talent, hiring it, keeping it. I say to minorities, Come and make us strong." He adds, "And we have to find a way not to judge talent by the traditional white male standard...
...domestic-partnership benefits at the Times. Along with the & Advocate, he co-hosted a reception for the same group during the Democratic National Convention. Jeffrey Schmalz, who covers politics for the Times, says Sulzberger clearly lets it be known that he won't tolerate discrimination. "I collapsed in the newsroom and went to the hospital with what later would be diagnosed as AIDS. Arthur checked up on me almost every day. When he saw me for the first time after that, at a book party, he walked straight across the room and gave me a big, long hug. That...
...notorious piece describing the wild streak of the alleged victim in the Palm Beach rape case. Many reporters, Quindlen says, thought she was nuts to write a column saying that the article was beneath the Times's standards. But, she recalls, "the next time I saw Arthur in the newsroom, he came up to me and, in a loud voice, told me that he was proud that I had spoken...