I'm surprised we didn't hear from blanp on this one yet:<p> <blockquote><font size="1" face="TImes, TimesNR, serif">quote:</font><hr>
Whatever it calls itself, the Economist does adhere to one long-standing but now vanishing tradition of U.S. newsmagazines — few bylines.<p>"We carry bylines only for our special surveys, the 10,000-word essays that really are individual efforts," Emmott says. "The rest of our articles we work on in a collaborative, collective way, with more debate and discussion and challenge by colleagues than would be true in most publications.<p>"Journalists are egomaniacs and protective about their own territory and their own work, and not having bylines mitigates against that somewhat," he says. "With bylines, you worry more about your own story. With no bylines, you worry more about the whole paper because your reputation depends on the reputation of the whole paper." <p>
http://www.calendarlive.com/columnists/cl-ca-shaw20jul20,0,5242807.column<p>(LA Times, via Romanesko)
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