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- Dec. 27, 1993: To Our Readers
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Dec. 27, 1993 The New Age of Angels
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- TO OUR READERS, Page 4
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- <body>
- <p> Every so often we play a kind of musical chairs with our sister
- TIME Inc. publications, sending editors off for temporary duty
- at other magazines while their counterparts do stints here at
- TIME. The practice is useful for the editors, who get a chance
- to try out a different variety of journalism. And it's good
- for us, since these occasional guests invariably bring along
- new ideas that invigorate our own approach to reporting and
- writing. The latest such swap is just coming to an end; for
- the past three months, FORTUNE executive editor Ann Morrison
- has held a comparable job with us.
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- <p> By all accounts, the experiment was a smashing success. We got
- the benefit of Morrison's energy, enthusiasm and 17 years of
- experience at FORTUNE; most recently she covered the automotive
- and other basic industries. She got to work with a new team
- of writers, editors and correspondents. Don't tell her, but
- we think we got the best of the bargain. From almost the moment
- she arrived, in the middle of a busy week, she was put to work,
- deftly and energetically editing copy--not only in TIME's
- Business section but also in science and in world affairs, beats
- she specifically requested. Says Morrison: "If this was going
- to be a learning experience, I figured I should deal with breaking
- news." During her brief tenure she oversaw cover stories on
- such varied topics as the impending collapse of Castro's Cuba,
- human cloning and America's job crisis. Her most recent big
- assignment was especially apt: a cover story on the new generation
- of leaders at the Big Three Detroit automakers. And she made
- it all look easy. Says assistant managing editor Christopher
- Porterfield: "She has not only handled everything with skill
- and aplomb, but has emerged unruffled and serenely smiling."
- </p>
- <p> Morrison found working at a weekly magazine to be a little frantic
- compared with the biweekly FORTUNE, but also terrifically stimulating.
- "You have to react to constantly shifting news, but you still
- have to provide plenty of analysis," she says. Fortunately,
- one thing was familiar: the names, if not the faces, of her
- temporary co-workers. Morrison's husband Donald was at TIME
- for years (he's now an assistant managing editor at ENTERTAINMENT
- WEEKLY and, coincidentally, Ann's current stand-in at FORTUNE).
- Good things rarely last forever, though, and so next week she
- will be heading back, while we'll have to figure out how we
- did it all without her. So long, Ann, and thanks.
- </p>
- <p> James R. Gaines
- </p>
- <p> Managing Editor
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