As our news team nears the gentler end of the workweek — the papers shipped and our to-do lists replaced with notes for the immediately forthcoming publishing cycle — for just a moment, our editors resurface from the detailed depths of production. They email a reminder of the next morning’s editorial planning summit — along with a retrospective look at our work, dash of wit and some pep talk. So we’ve made it a blog series: a behind-the-scenes Final Edit goes public. No ‘Emailgate’ here. –EP
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We gather again Thursday at 9:00 on Perry Avenue for our staff meeting, where we will hopefully welcome back Managing Editor Jerry Salley after two sick days that aptly reminded the rest of us just how much he does. Which is why heartfelt thanks go to designers Whitney Fincannon, Kristy Adair and Tammy Smith for their patience while I scrambled sans Jerry through both press days, and to all of our staff writers for turning in solid stories on deadline.
Kudos to Ashley Boncimino for hustling on a couple of spot news stories, and to Cindy Landrum for writing the entire GJ culture section with a UBJ piece on workplace stress thrown in for comic relief. But this week’s Heisman goes to April Morris, who took on all proofing duties for both pubs while writing six stories (including the UBJ cover and the GJ community lead) plus her usual thorough editing job on four intern contributions. She also took photos for her GJ lead.
