Word: newsweek
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Mark T. Whitaker '79 became the first black editor of a major U.S. weekly Tuesday when he was named editor of Newsweek magazine...
...Newsweek is a great magazine already and whatever I accomplish as editor will only be building on strength," he said. "But I want to make sure that we keep our aggressive edge on big news stories...
DIED. RUTH BRINE, 78, ebullient former senior editor of TIME; in New York City. Brine, an Iowa native who grew up skating on the Mississippi, opted in 1945 to begin her career at TIME rather than Newsweek because of its proximity to Rockefeller Center's skating rink. During her four-decade career, she interviewed such icons as Pablo Picasso and Maria Callas and conceived cover stories on women, crime and the elderly...
...frenzied ritual is a battalion of college guides offering to lead families through the thicket of come-ons and promises. Among these are venerable tomes such as The Fiske Guide to Colleges and Peterson's Four-Year Colleges, as well as recent entries that include products from TIME and Newsweek, each paired with a test-preparation service--TIME with The Princeton Review and Newsweek with Kaplan. The most watched of these guides is the annual ranking of America's "best" colleges and universities by U.S. News & World Report. The U.S. News formula has evolved over 12 years into a complex...
DIED. MAYNARD PARKER, 58, editor of Newsweek; of pneumonia that he contracted after treatment for leukemia; in New York City. A distinguished foreign correspondent and hard-driving journalist, he spent 31 years at Newsweek, the last seven as its top editor (see Eulogy, below...