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With a little help from my friend Stuart Levine, author of the best-selling business guides, "Six Fundamentals of Success" and "Cut to the Chase: and 99 other rules to liberate yourself and gain back the gift of time," I developed a game plan that has worked pretty well since.
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Smooth News: Management Tips for Today's Newsroom
Are editors managers, or are they journalists? The truth is, they're both, and that is sometimes a pretty tricky balancing act. For women in the newsroom, throw in a family and a household, and the tasks become even more difficult.
Most journalists didn't get into the business to crunch financial budgets, write performance reviews or sit through countless upper-management meetings. But for editors, that's a significant part of the job. Without clear focus and an organizational plan, you're likely to get stuck in a management rut and feel disconnected with the news process.The following pages offer instructions and suggestions for tackling the budget process, evaluating staff, setting a productive daily routine and improving diversity in newsrooms.Avoiding the tyranny of the immediateBy Carl CorrySomeone once told me that because editors are managers, they aren't journalists - eliciting from my mouth a visceral spewing of choice words in both English and Italian.The fear on his face made me feel a little better, but I had to wonder: was I living an editor's worst nightmare? Had I become so overcome by administrative responsibilities that real journalism was only an indirect part of my life?The answer was no. In fact, I realized that I was being too much a journalist and too little a manager. I was overcome by admi...See the full content of this document
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