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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 1/25/2006 5:16:02 PM
Title: NYT promotes Kramon, Berke and Edgerley
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
To the [New York Times] Staff:

We're delighted -- triply delighted -- to begin the new year with three
stellar promotions to the newsroom masthead: Glenn Kramon, Rick Berke and Susan Edgerley.

Glenn will become Assistant Managing Editor for enterprise, with a mandate to stimulate and manage original New York Times reporting ventures across the newsroom. Inevitably this will involve him in specific projects and lines of reporting, but because he can't be everywhere at once his most important responsibility will be to assure that every desk has the editing infrastructure in place to produce hard-hitting, trend-spotting, agenda-setting coverage. Glenn is a passionate, sharp-eyed accomplice on an enterprise story. Ask Keith Bradsher, or David Cay Johnston, or Diana Henriques, or Kurt Eichenwald, or any of the other reporters who have done ground-breaking work with Glenn as the editing partner. Glenn, in fact, has already begun working with teams around the paper in recent months -- with Metro on diabetes and on Medicaid fraud, and with Science on "Being a Patient,'' as examples -- in what we think is a model for what his role will be.

Susan will become Assistant Managing editor with a dual portfolio. She
will inherit Glenn's career development responsibilities, with a major role
in training, tracking and promoting the journalists of The New York Times. Like Glenn before her, Susan in her two-plus years as Metro editor has demonstrated what good things happen when superior management serves superior journalism. She is an uncanny judge of talent and potential. Metro under her leadership has been unbeatable on news, ambitious in its enterprise, and has assembled as fine a collection of editing talent as that desk has ever had. The career development job was invented to make sure we are investing as much effort in making our people better as in making our stories better. Edge knows lots and lots about both. Susan will also oversee an intensive study of how the newsroom operates. You'll be hearing more about that in coming weeks, but we intend to enlist many of our most inventive journalists and look hard at the way we move stories to publication -- and the way we process them for the website, the Herald-Trib and the news service. Susan (who has been, among other things, editor of the news service) has a keen sense of how all the parts fit together.

We hope to announce a successor as Metro editor soon.

Rick will become Assistant Managing Editor for news. The promotion is
intended to add stature to the assignment he began a year ago, before
detouring into a highly educational tour as night editor. Back then, we
defined his job this way: "to focus like a laser on the big breaking or
running stories, to move around the newsroom harvesting ideas, to help us coordinate across department lines, to help department heads put together their strongest story lists for the coming days and then make them happen." He did exactly that. And, without being asked, he took on several other important tasks -- initiating a serious conversation about the quality of writing at the paper, for instance, and assembling interesting mixes of staffers from around the paper for brainstorming lunches that have unleashed a lot of creative energy.

These are three people you'd want at just about any table where the future of journalism is being hatched. We're excited to have them at ours.

Bill, Jill and John

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