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Richard J. Meislin '75, editor-in-chief of the web edition of The New York Times, has spent his life at the intersection of journalism and technology...
Shortly after he arrived at the New York daily, however, he was selected to serve as news clerk to the Times' former executive editor, A. M. Rosenthal, flagging stories that other papers were covering but The Times...
...learn a tremendous amount working at the office of the highest editor of the New York Times," says Meislin. "It was both an honor and a tremendous aid to my career to be selected for that...
...whole art of depicting stories graphically was a new idea, and we had no organized department to do that. Rich was just a perfect candidate," said Max Frankel, who succeeded Rosenthal as executive editor of The Times in 1986. "Here was a guy who was highly literate, adventurous with a computer, but was also a reporter...
This month the ninth and 10th volumes in the 1 1/2-year-old series will appear: historian Douglas Brinkley's Rosa Parks and novelist and critic Elizabeth Hardwick's Herman Melville. Atlas' original notion--short biographies by great writers--may have been tinged with a little inspired hyperbole, but as general editor he has overseen the production of short biographies (roughly 200 pages each) by some very good writers indeed, including Garry Wills (on Saint Augustine), Larry McMurtry (on Crazy Horse) and Mary Gordon (on Joan of Arc). All the authors were paid advances from $50,000 to $100,000, and those...