Word: newsroomful
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...moment, though, Will Hearst's flip line to his grandfather's ghost about not knowing what he is doing draws some uneasy smiles in the newsroom. Seven months after hiring a new editor for the paper, Hearst fired him two weeks ago and named himself to the post. Image, the four-month-old Sunday magazine, is so far ill focused. And the Examiner, perpetual afternoon also- ran to the morning Chronicle (circ. 554,000, vs. 150,000) has failed to gain new readers...
...goings-on in the Examiner's newsroom often sound more interesting than anything the reporters cover. After Hearst hired David Burgin, 46, away from the Orlando Sentinel last year to be the Examiner's new editor, Burgin signed up Columnists Thompson and Cyra McFadden, author of The Serial, a send-up of Marin County mores. Hearst wooed away Warren Hinckle, an eccentric Chronicle columnist who bludgeons miscreants, real and imagined, in print and never goes anywhere without his basset hound, Bentley. When Frank McCulloch, 66, a veteran journalist who had just retired as executive editor of the California- based McClatchy...
...Burgin could be persuasive, however, he could also be mercurial, a trait that the Examiner poked fun at in another TV ad. As an unsmiling Burgin enters the newsroom, staffers cower behind bookshelves and scatter in fear. "David's got a reputation as sort of a tough guy," narrates Hearst. "But I think that's blown way out of proportion." Still, Burgin was difficult. He disappeared from the office for long stretches, blew up suddenly at staffers, - and once, in a fit of pique, skipped a planned meeting with company brass in New York. Hearst "kept saying I was capricious...
...glass-walled corner office off the Boston Globe newsroom, Michael Janeway, 45, talks about the doubts he had before he took the helm of New England's premier newspaper eight months ago. "I went through a period when I even wondered if I should take the job," says Janeway, carefully picking his words. "I wondered about my leadership, about whether a leader could also be a constructive critic. But I decided if you're going to do it, you can't do it as Hamlet...
...with the 1982 story that sparked Lakian's suit, Janeway attended the five-week trial every day, sitting next to the accused reporter to show his support. When the jury delivered a confusing verdict that seemed to go against the Globe, Janeway made a rare appearance in the newsroom to explain why the paper's lawyers thought that Judge George Jacobs would rule in the Globe's favor. The following week, Jacobs indeed said that the Globe had not libeled Lakian...