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...Globe won its first Pulitzer Prize the year after he took over, for probing the credentials of a federal-judgeship nominee who was a Kennedy family retainer; it has since won ten more, the majority for reports on such issues as race relations and arms control. During Winship's tenure, circulation jumped about 40%, to 520,000 daily and 793,000 (eighth in the U.S.) on Sunday. Last week this era came to a scheduled close: Winship, 64, announced that he will retire in January to set up a program to train Third World journalists. Said...
...Janeway triumphed in a two-year power struggle that divided the staff. When word circulated last year that he might be the heir apparent, some reporters protested directly to Taylor that they saw him as aloof, enigmatic and almost relentless in getting his own way. Put under orders by Winship and Taylor not to respond to attacks during what he calls "the year of gossiping dangerously," Janeway gradually won over his rivals and the staff, and at last week's announcement he was greeted with subdued but sustained applause...
...contrast in style between the two editors could hardly be more acute. Winship is elfin, effervescent, demonstrative and unassumingly rumpled. He tells stories of his financially modest youth and calls himself a "swamp Yankee." Janeway is shy, sardonic, reserved and elegant. He has the seigneurial manner befitting a son of Economics Columnist Eliot Janeway and Author Elizabeth Janeway (Powers of the Weak). Perhaps the only obvious characteristic the men share is that like dozens of their staffers they are graduates of Harvard, yet they agree on the problems the paper must correct...
...Globe hits exhilarating and exasperating extremes, by turns witty and influential, then erratic and arrogant. Its best quality is its dogged pursuit of corruption and injustice, even among liberal favorites: Winship says his most painful decision was to publish a probe of the personal finances of Edward Brooke-the only black elected to the U.S. Senate since Reconstruction-which resulted in his electoral defeat. The seven-member Washington bureau and five foreign correspondents provide depth rather than routine wire-service-style stories, and the sports pages are perhaps the nation's best...
...nine months of 1984. He recognizes the paper's complex and imperfect character. "I want to nourish the traditions of individuality and crusading," he says, "but I may put greater emphasis on other flags we salute, such as consistency and keeping opinion out of the news columns." Adds Winship modestly: "Mike may be better at keeping the paper steady than...