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Jackie	Post subject: How many MEs does it take..... Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 3:48 pm
Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 598 Location: The Herald in Everett, WA	I know it's a big paper, but manohman.....<p>Miami Herald creates new senior team, with four managing editors MIAMI (AP) — The Miami Herald named four managing editors to head the paper's news operations, a move the executive editor said would promote ``more democratic collaboration'' among all departments. ...The four — Judy Miller, Liza Gross, Rick Hirsch and Dave Wilson — were named after the departure of the two editors who had held managing editor titles.
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Bumfketeer	Post subject: Re: How many MEs does it take..... Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 4:27 pm
Joined: Fri Nov 15, 2002 1:01 am Posts: 3557 Location: Cusp of retirement, grave or both	Perhaps ADKBrown can help me out here, but I seem to recall a time when the Times Union of Albany, N.Y. (circ. 100,000 or so) had four managing editors. Included was one who did a horrific redesign as a highly paid consultant, was offered a job, insisted she be ranked as "at least" a managing editor and was forced out after a year or two of collecting a ridiculously inflated paycheck for cogitating in an office all day.<p>I dunno how it is in Everett, but the papers for which I have worked all seem to have the philosophy that the more bosses, the merrier. And of course, all those folks are long gone when the real battle begins.<p>[ July 15, 2003: Message edited by: Bumfketeer ]</p>
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ADKbrown	Post subject: Re: How many MEs does it take..... Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 4:34 pm
Joined: Tue Apr 09, 2002 12:01 am Posts: 1286 Location: Saranac Lake, N.Y.	I believe that's right. At least three, I know.
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Jackie	Post subject: Re: How many MEs does it take..... Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2003 11:27 pm
Joined: Sun Mar 02, 2003 1:01 am Posts: 598 Location: The Herald in Everett, WA	<blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Bumfketeer: I dunno how it is in Everett, but the papers for which I have worked all seem to have the philosophy that the more bosses, the merrier. And of course, all those folks are long gone when the real battle begins. <hr></blockquote><p>Actually, this is my first newspaper that didn't have a managing editor. We've got a circ. of about 60,000 (that's a good guess), owned by The Washington Post. Do we need one? Depends on what day you catch me on. Can't say I yearn for yet another layer of management.<p>[ July 16, 2003: Message edited by: Jackie ]</p>
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