. Industries of to-day. itor and a practicalmanaging editor work harmoniously side by side. On some journals the managing editor is avisible figure, known by name to everybody, andhe enjoys popular credit for his work. On othershe keeps in the background and is rarely heard ofoutside the newspaper walls. He is like the chiefof staff of an army, who must be equally able tounderstand and execute the plans of a good gen-eral or to take charge of the whole battle undera weak or disabled one, and who in either caseis the busiest man in the field. Let us get acquainted with one of these mastersof a
. Industries of to-day. itor and a practicalmanaging editor work harmoniously side by side. On some journals the managing editor is avisible figure, known by name to everybody, andhe enjoys popular credit for his work. On othershe keeps in the background and is rarely heard ofoutside the newspaper walls. He is like the chiefof staff of an army, who must be equally able tounderstand and execute the plans of a good gen-eral or to take charge of the whole battle undera weak or disabled one, and who in either caseis the busiest man in the field. Let us get acquainted with one of these mastersof a great New York morning newspaper andgather an idea of the dimensions of the burdenwhich he, like Sisyphus, rolls daily up the simplify the case we will take a journal onwhich the managing editor has full control. [128] The Morning Paper His working day at the office begins at this time he is supposed to have read atleast his own paper, and perhaps one or twoothers. This, which to other men comes as a. In an Editors Room pleasant after-breakfast recreation, is to him amatter of business. It is his preliminary surveyof the ground upon which the engagement is tobe begun that day, although no man alive cantell where it may not drift before night. [129] Industries of To-Day The hour from twelve to one he gives to hisprivate secretary, who is generally a of all the mornings letters are to be attendedto. The private secretary has been at work uponthe correspondence for an hour or two, so thatthe managing editor is troubled only with letterswhich it is important that he should see. Hereads or hears them, dictates an answer where itis needed, and gives directions about others. Next he gets reports from the secretary andthe exchange readers as to the position of hispaper among the, other papers that of clippings arranged for comparisonenable him to see wherein his reporters havedistanced their rivals and wherein they havebeen beaten i
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