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<title>
Dec. 27, 1993: To Our Readers
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
Dec. 27, 1993 The New Age of Angels
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
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TO OUR READERS, Page 4
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<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.
</p>
<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
</p>
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