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- Feb. 08, 1993: From The Editor-In-Chief
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- FROM THE EDITOR-IN-CHIEF, Page 6
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- <body>
- <p> With this week's issue time has a new managing editor, James
- R. Gaines, the 13th in a line of succession that goes back to the
- magazine's founding in 1923. He replaces Henry Muller, who is
- moving up the masthead to join me in the management of all our
- Time Inc. magazines as the company's editorial director.
- </p>
- <p> In his 5 1/2 years at the helm of TIME, Muller has
- brilliantly presided over not only the coverage of some of the
- most tumultuous years of news in our generation but also the
- most fundamental redesign of TIME since it invented the
- newsmagazine. Under Muller, TIME superbly chronicled the
- collapse of communism and the end of the cold war. Two years
- before the 1992 election, in a Man of the Year cover story, it
- identified the two faces of George Bush that would ultimately
- deny him re-election. And TIME was the first major news
- organization to pick out Bill Clinton as the man to watch in the
- race for the presidency.
- </p>
- <p> That ought to be enough for any managing editor of TIME,
- but it is not what Muller is proudest of. It is his selection
- of the Endangered Earth as the Planet of the Year in 1988, a
- daring play on TIME's traditional Man of the Year choice. Says
- he: "We took a story that was all around us but that no one had
- treated in the depth it deserved. And we produced a list of
- solutions that stand up very well today."
- </p>
- <p> TIME's redesign in 1992, consolidating the essentials of
- the news in The Week section, which now leads the mag azine,
- and opening up the middle of TIME's pages to longer and more
- thought-provoking accounts and analyses, was a bold response to
- the changing needs of readers in the information age. Our aim,
- Muller says, was to create a magazine "that knows how to speak
- intelligently to an intelligent audience, enabling serious and
- thoughtful readers to think through the problems that the
- country and the world face."
- </p>
- <p> On that foundation Gaines, the new managing editor,
- intends to build. Formerly the managing editor of our sister
- publications People and, more recently, Life, he brings to your
- magazine a sure intuition of what matters most to you and a
- dedication to founder Henry Luce's original imperative for TIME.
- His definition of that is "relentless curiosity." TIME, he says,
- must be "eternally young and fast moving and flexible, able to
- respond instantly to changes in America's smallest and largest
- concerns."
- </p>
- <p> Jason McManus
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