Word: lelyveld
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...days after Princess Diana's death, Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor of the New York Times, sat in his office comparing two front pages from the Sunday paper. One had a typically Times-worthy story at the top of the right-hand column--about a new study documenting the number of illegal Mexican workers in the U.S. In the later edition, Diana's death had supplanted it as the lead story. The paper was fast on its feet with the late-breaking news: trucks heading out to the Hamptons, weekend hangout of the media elite, were even turned back...
...newspaper's first reporter to die on assignment since World War II, according to Joseph Lelyveld, executive editor of The Times...
...definitely not the heir apparent: Eugene Roberts, who at 61 is four years Lelyveld's senior and who left the Times in 1972 to transform the soggy Philadelphia Inquirer into one of the nation's foremost dailies. Lelyveld calls the low-key, deceptively shrewd Roberts "one of the great strategic thinkers in journalism," a judgment shared by most people in the industry. Several have tried to lure Roberts back into editing since he retired in 1990, after spurring his Inquirer staff to win 17 Pulitzer Prizes in 18 years on topics ranging from the intricacies of the federal budget...
...call from Lelyveld last month was different. The two are old friends who have never once, Roberts says, disagreed about journalistic philosophy. The paper has problems in local coverage and marketing to the suburbs, two of Roberts' specialties. And the Times is the Times -- the premier daily, the shared frame of reference for political, commercial, cultural and media elites. Its analysis becomes, almost by definition, the prevailing wisdom...
...hubbub over Roberts almost overshadowed the main event, the confirmation that the top post will pass in July from Max Frankel, 64, to Lelyveld, 57. The transition will mark a change in style -- Frankel is courtly and professorial, Lelyveld shy yet blunt -- but not necessarily in substance. Both men are Ivy Leaguers and Pulitzer prizewinners (Frankel for covering Richard Nixon's trip to China, Lelyveld for a book about South Africa) who have spent their adult life at the Times. Both reflect a newsroom esprit de corps that approaches religious fervor. Both are political liberals who preach the importance...