Word: winship
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...several years. It won a Pulitzer Prize in 1966 for its coverage of the Kennedy family's efforts to promote a federal judgeship for an old retainer, and picked up another this spring for an expose of corruption in Somerville, Mass. "The death of the Herald" says Winship, "should enable us to put out a much better newspaper." As a first step, he has hired nine of the Herald's best people. Winship also plans to enlarge the paper's newshole, streamline the bulky Sunday edition, and give even more push to the morning staff...
...Globe's strivings for both vivacity and quality result from the happy association of Winship and the Taylor family. Publisher Davis Taylor is content to give his editors considerable leeway and solid financial backing. The Herald management diverted attention and resources into the long, doomed fight to save its broadcasting license (TIME, May 8); the Taylors have sold much of their interest in Kaiser-Globe Broadcasting and invested proceeds in a $6,000,000 expansion of the newspaper...
Weathermen. Since becoming editor seven years ago, Winship has given direction to a paper that was once singularly haphazard. His success surprised some staffers, who initially regarded him as a lightweight. City-room cynics used to grumble that he had married his money (Elizabeth Coolidge, who writes an advice column for the paper) and inherited his job (his father, Laurence, edited the Globe from 1955 to 1965). He was also criticized for being less than overwhelmingly cerebral...
Perhaps. But, says Assistant Managing Editor Tim Leyland, "while he is not your intellectual aristocrat, he is a catalyzer. He's got a good grasp of trends and movement in society." Winship, 51, has made the paper sensitive to these trends and has also been receptive to the ideas of younger journalists. Last year he appointed a 29-year-old as metropolitan editor of the morning edition. "These brainy kids in the newsroom are our salvation," he told the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "They write better than we do, they know more than we do, and they...
...give encouragement to his "city-room Weathermen," as he calls them, Winship frequently sends out "tiger notes," which invariably begin: "Terrific job, Tiger. Keep 'em coming." The fact that the editor frequently wears rumpled seersucker, odd slacks and boots doesn't hurt rapport either. Not that generational and ideological friction is completely absent. Radical Columnist David Deitch was recently removed from the Op-Ed page. Winship explained that the change was to make room for contributions from Ralph Nader and the Black Congressional Caucus; Deitch charged that the paper could no longer swallow his attacks on the Boston...