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NEWS ABOUT: editor

editor stories: 18 news summaries
NEWSroom MELTDOWN

Editor Gets Punchy Over Article—Literally

'2nd worst story' ever pushes vet Post hand to violence

Nov 2, 09 3:59 PM CST
(Newser) - An editorial dispute in the Washington Post newsroom devolved into fisticuffs last week. The item was for the Style section, a department long known for taking an anything-goes attitude toward its reporters. When the story crossed the desk of veteran editor Henry Allen—grumpy about his part-time work and... More »

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Washington Post • reporter • Vietnam veteran • editor • Marcus Brauchli • newspaper industry • fistfight • Henry Allen • Manuel Roig-Franzia

 German 
 Women's 
 Mag Bans 
 Models 

'Whole industry is anorexic,' says fed-up editor

Oct 6, 09 4:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The most popular German women's magazine is banning professional models from its editorial pages. Brigitte will use only "real woman" from now on to illustrate its stories, declared its editor, who said he was "fed up" with having to retouch pictures of underweight models who bear no resemblance... More »

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bulimia • fashion • Germany • anorexia • editor • Photoshop • editorial pages • models • magazines • women's magazines

Wales:
Wikipedia Changes Exaggerated

Only a few posts will
be delayed for approval

Sep 30, 09 5:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Wikipedia's editorial changes aren't so sweeping after all, says co-founder Jimmy Wales. Reports that the open-source encyclopedia would restrict edits to entries on all living people are “just completely wrong," he tells Time. Instead, the site will adopt “flagged revision”—in which edits are checked by... More »

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Wikipedia • Jimmy Wales • editor • open source • encyclopedia • Wikimedia

(Newser) - After riding its users to popularity, Wikipedia is now moving to rein them in, the New York Times reports, by mandating editorial review for articles about living people. The feature, called “flagged revisions,” means an experienced editor will check updates to the free, user-generated online encyclopedia. The change... More »

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Wikipedia • editor • encyclopedia • online encyclopedia • Wikimedia

 Colbert 
 Guest-Edits 
 Newsweek 




Will stay in character as ultra-conservative host

Jun 3, 09 10:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - The redesigned Newsweek is trying to drum up some buzz. To that end, editor Jon Meacham brought in its first guest editor: Stephen Colbert. The comedian—in character as the host of The Colbert Report—was at the helm for the next issue and “had input into what the... More »

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entertainment • Newsweek • celebrity • late night talk show • editor • Stephen Colbert • The Colbert Report • Jon Meacham

Mo. Paper Axes Journalist Shot on the Beat 

Reporter was wounded in '08 Kirkwood city council rampage

Apr 22, 09 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A St. Louis-area reporter shot last year while covering a city council meeting has been laid off from his paper, the Riverfront Times reports. Todd Smith spent days in the hospital last February after taking a bullet in the hand in an attack that left seven dead. “This is... More »

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layoffs • St. Louis • recession • reporter • editor • Kirkwood, Missouri • gunshot wounds • newspaper industry • Todd Smith

Boozing Editor
Loves New Life on the Wagon

Elle fashionista goes weeks without a drop: 'I love not drinking'

Apr 8, 09 1:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - British Elle fashion editor Stacey Duguid knew her drinking was getting to be a problem: “As well as possible health issues, the days I've spent hungover have been some of the most horrific of my life,” she writes in the Daily Mail. But it was a mammoth task.... More »

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fashion • alcohol • wine • alcohol abuse • editor • psychotherapy • Elle Magazine • Stacey Duguid

OBITUARY

Publishing Vet James Brady Dead at 80

Storied career included helming New York, Harper's Bazaar

Jan 28, 09 1:20 PM CST
(Newser) - James Brady, a veteran of numerous publications who rose from business reporting to become the editor of New York and Harper’s Bazaar, has died. He was 80. Brady is credited with founding two long-lived New York gossip standbys, the New York Post’s Page Six and... More »

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New York City • Page Six • New York Post • obituary • gossip • publisher • editor • Parade magazine • publishing industry • New York magazine • James Brady • Harper's Bazaar • Women's Wear Daily • Fairchild Publications

Ambassador Anna? Rumors Have Vogue Ed Paris-Bound

Wintour rumored new French ambassador

Jan 9, 09 10:25 AM CST
(Newser) - Rumors are flying that Vogue editor Anna Wintour will become ambassador to France, the New York Post reports. Wintour's rumored replacement at the pinnacle of fashion journalism would be Carine Roitfeld, editor of French Vogue. But is the scuttlebutt, which appears to have originated with the Fashion Week Daily website,... More »

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Barack Obama • fashion • politics • France • magazine • Vogue • editor • Anna Wintour • ambassador • President Obama • Carine Roitfeld • wowOwow

OBITUARY

 Sci-Fi Guru 
 Forrest Ackerman 
 Dead at 92 

Magazine editor coined term 'sci-fi'

Dec 6, 08 9:42 AM CST
(Newser) - Fright-film magazine writer and editor Forrest J Ackerman—credited with coining the term "sci-fi"—died this week of heart failure, the Los Angeles Times reports. He was 92. Ackerman introduced new generations to horror films with his magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland; he was also known for... More »

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obituary • magazine • editor • writer • science fiction • horror flims

Chicago Tribune Editor Resigns Amid Cutbacks

Ann Marie Lipinski
ends 7-year run in job 'not the fit it once was'

Jul 14, 08 3:58 PM CDT
(AP) - Chicago Tribune editor Ann Marie Lipinski handed in her resignation today after 7 years in the top post at the Tribune Company's flagship paper. Lipinski's departure comes a week after the 161-year-old newspaper told its staff it would eliminate about 80 newsroom jobs amid a broad effort to cut costs... More »

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newspaper • Sam Zell • Tribune Company • editor • Los Angeles Times • Baltimore Sun • Chicago Tribune • Ann Marie Lipinski • Gerould Kern

Ex-Journal Editor Lands Atop Post

Ousted by Murdoch, Brauchli, 46, heading
to Washington

Jul 7, 08 3:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Washington Post has picked Marcus Brauchli, a former top editor at the Wall Street Journal, as its executive editor, sources tell the New York Times, with a formal announcement coming later today or tomorrow. The 46-year-old Brauchli replaces the outgoing Leonard Downie, 66, and represents a dramatic generational shift... More »

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newspaper • Washington Post • Wall Street Journal • editor • Marcus Brauchli

Washington Post Top Editor Calls It Quits

Downie presided as Internet transformed newspapers, media

Jun 23, 08 8:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Washington Post's executive editor is retiring, he said today, after a 17-year run that included many prizes, painful staff cuts, and the rise of the Internet. A low-profile but highly respected figure, Leonard Downie Jr. told his staff he would miss the paper. "At the same time I'm... More »

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newspaper • Washington Post • retirement • editor • newsrooms • newsroom cuts

Top Editor
Bails on
Journal

Four months under Murdoch regime enough for Brauchli

Apr 22, 08 9:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Four months into the Rupert Murdoch era, the Wall Street Journal’s managing editor is resigning. Marcus Brauchli, in the job since May, has tried to chart a path between Murdoch and the paper’s traditionalists, sources told Time, which broke the story on its website. The split is... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • Dow Jones • editor • News Corp • Robert Thomson


 Times Tells 
 Inside Story 
of Spitzer 
Scoop  
 

Staffers won't say how paper got scoop, butwill  dish on 'Kristen,' other angles

Mar 14, 08 4:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the New York Times in the spotlight for breaking the Eliot Spitzer story, the paper’s urban-affairs correspondent tackles a flood of reader questions, ranging from whether Hillary Clinton will still get Spitzer’s superdelegate vote (“she loses it”) to how the Times got the story in... More »

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prostitution • newspaper • New York Times • sex scandal • journalism • Eliot Spitzer • editor • Kristen • Ashley Dupre

Vogue Editor Strikes Back
at Clinton

Wintour chides candidate for canceling magazine photo shoot

Jan 19, 08 9:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton apparently hasn't seen The Devil Wears Prada. Vogue editor Anna Wintour, reputedly the inspiration for the title character, tongue-lashes the presidential hopeful in the February issue for backing out of the cover shoot, Women’s Wear Daily reports. According to Wintour, Clinton "decided to... More »

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Hillary Clinton • fashion • Prada • Vogue • editor • Annie Leibovitz • Anna Wintour • Liz Smith • Conde Nast • snub

Cops Raid Bakery Linked to Editor's Assassination

19 arrested at Oakland Black Muslim shop

Aug 3, 07 6:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Police, SWAT teams, and bomb units descended on an Oakland bakery shop today that was linked to the murder of Chauncey Bailey. Bailey, an editor a the Oakland Post who was writing a story about Your Black Muslim Bakery, was gunned down yesterday on his way to work; the Oakland ... More »

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California • murder • editor • Black Muslim • Oakland • Your Black Muslim Bakery • Yusuf Bey • Chauncey Bailey • raid • bakery

Panel to Shield Journal Editors

In latest deal, hybrid board would hire and fire key staffers

Jun 29, 07 5:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - A watchdog committee, not would-be owner Rupert Murdoch, would hire and fire editors under a tentative pact to protect the editorial independence of the Wall Street Journal,  a source familiar with details of the deal tells MarketWatch. Members of the panel would be chosen by Murdoch's News Corp., Dow... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • Wall Street Journal • Dow Jones • Bancroft family • news • watchdog • editor • News Corp

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