The journalism professor in me, which has been deeply ingrained in my
psyche since 1981, has to followup on the note about newspapers listing
editors, etc.

Yes, indeed, U.S. newspapers all do it. I also have never come across one
that doesn't. Usually this little block of info is found on the
newspaper's editorial page, listing publisher, editor and some other folks
generally responsible for the publication, and thus by extension, the
content, of the newspaper, be that content news or advertising. The little
block, or box, is called the masthead.

You will hear some American journalists use masthead as the name for the
device on a newspaper's front page that gives the name of the newspaper
(e.g. The New York Times). They are incorrect. That device is called the
flag, or, less colorfully, the nameplate. Anyone calling that device the
masthead should be strung up on a flagpole and left to dangle for an
indefinite period.

Cheers, Jay

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School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Chapel Hill NC 27599-3365

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On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Harvey Fishman wrote:

> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Toby Stokes wrote:
>
> > Interesting article in The Guardian yesterday;
> > http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4241935,00.html
> > that covers the 'ragged columns/justified news' debate that was
> > discussed here recently, and other typographic issues.
>
> I note that they make a point about newspapers not identifying their
> editors and sub-editors.  That is ENGLISH newspapers; in the U.S. I
> have never heard of a newspaper that does not proudly list them all.
> I subscribe to _The Economist_ and have noted that they do not even
> identify the writers of any of the contents.
>
> Harvey
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