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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 1/26/2006 3:31:04 PM
Title: NYT memo on Sexton's metro editor appointment
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Memo from New York Times editors

Colleagues:

No editor ever went wrong putting his faith in Joe Sexton. Not Joe Vecchione, who first signed him up as a sports reporter. Not Mike Oreskes, who drafted him for Metro and likened it to acquiring Babe Ruth. Not Neil Amdur, who inducted Joe into editing as the first enterprise editor in the Sports Department. Not Jon Landman, who wrested him back to Metro in a similar capacity, or Susan Edgerley whose first brilliant stroke as Metro Editor was to make Joe her second in command. We're just following in the footsteps of the greats. Joe Sexton is our new Metro Editor.

Even as The Times has acquired a national audience and global ambitions, Metro remains the paper's source, and its soul. It is, of course, a mother lode of news that is as often of national interest as it is local. New York politics, New York business, New York culture and style, New York custom and attitude -- they are the ur in urban. (What Joe is muttering at this point in the announcement would light up the chili peppers on your Eudora.) Metro is the point of entry for talented reporters and editors, and a place where some of the best in the business show how newspapering is done. In recent years, it has been more than ever a font of ambitious investigative reporting and narrative story-telling, much of it abetted by Mr. Sexton: from the journalistic feats that followed 9/11, to Cliff Levy's Pulitzer-winning series on adult homes, through the Medicaid and prison health investigations of last year and the diabetes coverage that launched Metro's new year. These stories are local in the sense that they happened here, but they are global in their import.

Joe has also proved himself an excellent judge of, champion of, and developer of talent -- writers and editors alike. His joy and pride in great journalism are infectious. And he knows every decent surviving beer joint within ten blocks of Times Square. Metro is in for more good days.

Bill, Jill and John

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