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Tuesday – 11/3/09

Quote of the Week  —  Posted on November 3, 2009

“Back when I got into journalism, the idea that a fistfight in a newsroom would turn into a news story was unthinkable.”
-Pulitzer Prize-winning editor Henry Allen. 

After Mr. Allen told a Syle reporter that a piece she had written was “the second worst story I have seen in Style in 43 years,” reporter Manuel Roig-Franzia defended her by cursing at Allen.  Allen responded by swinging two punches at Roig-Franzia.
(Read the story here.)

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