Word: newsrooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Just off Times Square, at the southwest corner of the cavernous third-floor newsroom, in an office with the door usually open, sits the managing editor of The New York Times. Turner Catledge's office is as functional and unpretentious as its tenant, a tall Mississippian of 63 whose courtly manner cannot entirely conceal a natural gregariousness. There, every afternoon at 4, Catledge musters his department heads around a big oval table to set the course of the next day's editions. And there, at such a conference one day last week, Managing Editor Catledge took a larger...
Caveman Drawing. What a cartoonist draws is inevitably colored by what he feels, and the feelings of many a cartoonist are even plainer to detect than those of their like-minded colleagues at typewriters in the newsroom. The Washington Post's Herblock draws Goldwater with a snarling lip, but says: "I think he's so bad all you have to do is to picture him as he is." Paul Conrad of the Los Angeles Times also claims, "I don't put in any more than I see." What he sees is a jutting jaw and a vacant...
...coverage of its own home town. The mere fact that so many hands could be mustered so fast for any single story suggests to Rosenthal that a lot of Times reporters must have been sitting around the news room. It is Rosenthal's fervent conviction that the newsroom is the last place a reporter should be. News doesn't break there. In the seven months that Abe Rosenthal has been the Times's metropolitan editor, this conviction-and Timesmen's leg muscles-has gotten plenty of exercise...
Herculean Task. Rosenthal's staff is kept so busy these days that a hallowed Times institution, the newsroom pinochle game, has been brushed into history. Where once a Times reporter was lucky to get one story a week, he now gets more than he can handle. In the old days, a cub reporter spent his first six weeks writing radio copy for WQXR, the Times's station; today he is likely to go out on a story his first day on the job. "If anything, we overload him," says Rosenthal. "We want to see what...
...Newsroom Nashua. Last summer, when Times Managing Editor Turner Catledge invited Rosenthal to do just that, there were those on the paper who felt that the boss had lost his mind. In 15 years Rosenthal proved to be one cf the paper's liveliest and most perceptive foreign correspondents, but he had little administrative experience. Says Catledge: "I was asked, 'Why plant a crack foreign correspondent like Abe in the newsroom?' My answer is: 'Why did they put Nashua out to stud when he was winning races...