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Five tips for new editors to make a big difference

Mark Zieman is president and publisher of The Kansas City (Mo.) Star. Reach him at zieman@kcstar.com

LET'S BE FRANK: YOU WON'T win every fight with your publisher. You won't get every dollar you need or fill every job. Your latest online widget might not attract the audience you hoped. Even your friends and neighbors will at times be hurt or alarmed at the news you have to publish to fairly reflect your community and fully inform your readers.

So what's an editor to do? After 11 years, here's what I've learned. Maybe these lessons can help you each day as you tackle the truly heroic job of leading your newsrooms:


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Leadership matters more than ever

Gilbert Bailon is the Editorial page editor at the St.Louis Post-Dispatch and the President of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

A YEAR AGO, I EMBRACED the theme of “Transforming Leaders” as I became ASNE president.

What a year of transformation. The depth and pace of change has outstripped what most informed decision-makers in our business foresaw last spring.


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July 06, 2008
 
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