Art Brisbane: New New York Times Public Editor in a “Fateful Time”

Brisbane has learned from personal experience that prior standing is no promise of survival. Knight Ridder [for whom I worked for 21 years] reigned as the #2 journalism company in revenue size in the U.S. for years, and distinguished itself journalistically. Yet, in 2006, it hit a wall, as ...

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Deborah Howell: A Journalistic Whirlwind Passes into the Night

There she stood. This woman of small stature and enormous spirit, atop one of the Saint Paul Pioneer Press metro desks. Yes, literally, on the desk. Deborah was leaving the paper after a decade of pulling and pushing it into the modern age, moving onto to Newhouse Newspapers in D.C. Her ...

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