Word: stringers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This section for national press only," said the Vietnamese usher. At this the second-stringer from Washington leaned over to me and whispered, "Did you hear that? The national press is here...
Hoyle, 40, a Southern-born Midwesterner educated at Harvard, became acquainted with science-related journalism in the mid-1970s as a stringer for the magazine's Boston bureau. "I reported on everything from the abortion issue to medical school cheating," he recalls. After a stint as managing editor of the New Republic, Hoyle rejoined TIME in 1981 as an associate editor specializing in foreign affairs. Scientific matters, though, were seldom far away. His first cover article, written for TIME's international editions in 1982, detailed the global hazards of acid rain...
...time slot to a new production division. Since then, CBS News has been bedeviled by budget cuts, layoffs, a writers' strike and erratic ratings for the Evening News. Now the network's news executives hope that the recapture of this breakfast beachhead will boost morale. Says News President Howard Stringer: "I see this as the starting gun for a more productive, happy period...
...Stringer must still devise a solution to one of the network's most vexing problems. While the news division's past efforts were considered too staid to become widely popular, The Morning Program had the opposite trouble. Hartley's awkward one-liners and forced banter were particularly grating. "It was like screeching nails against a blackboard," says Steve Friedman, former executive producer of Today and one of The Morning Program's most enthusiastic detractors...
...Stringer says the new show will try to win back news-oriented viewers with an eclectic mix of informational programming. "I want to get away from the couches and the endless parade of celebrities," he says, adding, "I want to do something that is strong and intelligent and witty and wise." He has already found one of his two hosts: Kathleen Sullivan, whom he wooed away from ABC last week for an annual salary reported to be in the high six figures...