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I respect and empathize with reporters and editors who must compete in today's environment. And I know full well that when I've been covering campaigns, which I still do, I've made my mistakes and have been far from perfect. Dan Rather

Editors of conservative magazines aren't out trying to raise money. The money is there; the cash reserves are in the bank. David Brock

Money Conservative Out Magazines Cash Editors Trying Bank Reserves Raise

'The Post' is a fairly fusty place when it comes to profanity. If a reporter tries to get a bad word into a story, the word is usually forwarded to top editors, who consider it with the gravity and speed that the Vatican applies to candidates for sainthood. David Fahrenthold

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Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.' David Puttnam

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With 'California,' editors were reading it, and fast, and others were emailing my agent to request it. Ultimately, there were a few editors interested in the book, and it sold at auction about two weeks after the submission process started. I couldn't believe it! Edan Lepucki

Book Reading Submission Few Believe Others Sold About Weeks California Auction Editors Were Ultimately After Process Interested Agent Request Fast Started Two Two Weeks

While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips. Elayne Boosler

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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead. Elliott Erwitt

Long Think Most Dead Around Editors Been

I knew that I wanted to intern at 'Teen Vogue' from the moment the first issue hit newsstands. Luckily, the team at Polo Ralph Lauren, where I interned during high school, really believed in me and arranged for an interview with the editors. Emily Weiss

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The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over. Felix Dennis

Age Monstrous Over Editors Celebrity Staffing

Once upon a time, gatekeepers were newspaper publishers and magazine editors and people who ran radio stations and news networks. And they decided what went above the fold and what went on page A10. Franklin Foer

To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story. Gary Wolf

Hope Future Best Technology Yesterday Group Boom Launch Would Small Small Group Wired Editors Story January Who Media Tech Designers

The poems were the only thing I wrote that was not for everyone else. Then my editors at Penguin, who were also friends and had seen several of them, aggressively urged me to do a book. Editors can be aggressive, especially after drinks. That's how 'Beyond This Dark House' appeared. Guy Gavriel Kay

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When I was 14, I entered British Vogue's annual talent contest and got a special mention. I went up to London to meet the editors and wrote about it in my high school magazine. Hamish Bowles

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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying. Jack Germond

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William Packard surely must be one of the great editors of our time. James Dickey

Time Great Our Our Time William Must Surely Editors Packard

None of the editors I've worked with have ever asked me to pull my punches. They've never asked me to give them anything other than my own interpretation of events. James Nachtwey

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Copy editors are very important and too rarely praised. Jane Lindskold

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Media gatekeepers - editors, publishers, film studios and the like - need to begin investing in talent behind the scenes, developing and resourcing marginalized voices to tell their own stories. At the end of the day, it's about the story and what will enable the audience to truly see, understand, and know the life and times of the subject. Janet Mock

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It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers. Jason Bateman

Collaborate Composers Costume Exciting Editors Really Production Thing Designers

Self-publishing worked for me. Being able to put your work in print, even if it's a tiny print-on-demand print run of a dozen or so copies, shows publishers and editors a completed piece of work and that you can follow through on a project. Jeff Lemire

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Somebody has to pay our editors, writers, journalists, designers, developers, and all the other specialists whose passion and tears go into every chunk of worthwhile web content. Jeffrey Zeldman

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