Word: paper
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Brendon P. Small, the account executive and a writer for the paper, describes The Weekly Week as a "subtle attempt" by he and his "hip, young twenty-something friends" to take over the city's media...
Maybe it's that paper. Or that exam. For whatever reason, the recent price increases of two items at the Greenhouse Cafe, Loker Commons and Cronkite Graduate Dining Hall have barely registered on the student consciousness...
...prove that newspapers can be packaged and marketed as effectively as snack food. And he has chosen the goliath Los Angeles Times, the chain's flagship, as his latest demonstration project. In the process, the former champion of breakfasts is demolishing the old order at America's fourth largest paper. Last month he swept out publisher Richard Schlosberg III and named himself the successor. Last week he accepted the resignation of a weary Shelby Coffey III, editor since...
Alarmists in the newsroom feared that Willes, an economist by training, might appoint himself editor. Instead he anointed the respected (and reassuringly rumpled) Michael Parks, the paper's 53-year-old managing editor (and a Pulitzer-prizewinning foreign correspondent). Coffey tried to put on a good face, saying he needed "a breather" after an eight-year run that included the O.J. Simpson trial, fires, floods, racial tensions inside and outside the newsroom--and four Pulitzers. But his goodbye statement spoke volumes: "There's a season for everything," he said, "and mine here has ended--happily, proudly, in midstride...
What spooks Times reporters about the 56-year-old Willes is his determination to have editors work more closely with the advertising side to goose circulation and revenues. That blurs the age-old separation between reporters with tough stories to tell and admen selling space to companies the paper covers. Last week three senior business executives took on new editorial responsibilities, to the dismay of traditionalists in the newsroom...