Word: staffs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only feel that the removal of the department is contrary to Harvard's General Education program and the newly organized, though less publicized, Regional Studies Plan, and to the best interests of Harvard in general. Before our valuable staff in the department takes leave of us, the edict should be carefully reconsidered. Peter B. Roll...
Veteran TIME editors, writers and researchers qualify as "experts" in the fields they cover. The prime requirement for a TIME staff member, however, is not special knowledge, but general curiosity. TIME'S staff stands midway between the facts and the reader. Those too deeply involved in a subject often lose the ability to tell others about it. The worlds of business, mathematics, art, music and medicine all have their own jargons. TIME writers who cover each of these must understand the patois; but they have to know another language-English...
...copy desk sends the stories back to the department's senior editor. There are six departmental senior editors, each with a staff of writers and researchers. The senior editors form the next circle; their day of misery or joy is Sunday, and their task is to act as "arms" of the managing editor. They sometimes hand stories back to be written again-occasionally four or five times. By Sunday, if the stories are not "right," the senior editor rewrites them...
...three journalists are gathered together, there, of course, is group journalism. If group journalism means that nobody is responsible because everybody is responsible, then TIME repudiates it. Its Editor and Managing Editor, like those of any other publication, are and always have been the responsible editors. Every other TIME staff member is responsible for whatever he or she contributes (or omits to contribute) to the week's work...
TIME'S editorial offices occupy the 28th and 29th floors of the TIME & LIFE Building in Rockefeller Center. They are plainly furnished and littered with paper. The prevailing atmosphere is tension, tempered by absent-minded civility. Until a lot of newspapermen got on TIME'S staff, the office boys used to whistle at their work; now they obey the 50-year-old newspaper taboo against whistling. On some evenings, still, an old Timer will call Matthews on the office phone and say: "Don't miss the sunset...