Word: tarter
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Managed by a group of experienced journalists, most of them in their mid-to late-20's, the paper was founded by a former Time-Life correspondent named Jeff Tarter. Tarter, who served for two years as a Vietnam reporter photographer, designed The Phoenix as a "writer's paper...
Staff reporters are not assigned specific articles. They are free to write about what interests them and in the manner they choose. "It's not good for a writer to be compelled to cover things," Tarter said. Most staff members were working for other professional publications (the New York Times, Village Voice, and Fusion ) before they came to The Phoenix. To join the paper many of them had to accept a substantial cut in salary...