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“Please be polite,” wrote Susan Spring, the News & Observer’s director of newsroom operations. “If you are working elections, you may have up to TWO slices” of pizza. A few hours later, executive editor John Drescher vetoed the limit, but added that “if Susan Spring chases you with a knife in her hand, you are on your own.”
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Newsroom hero: N&O editor rescinds two-slice limit on election night pizza
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