'THE FIRST ROUGH DRAFT OF HISTORY'

摘要

At its best, Newsweek has always been about "the team game": a kind of group journalism that's less concerned with big-name bylines than with big, cooperative storytelling; a collective endeavor that aspires to serve the readers, not the egos of the journalists they're paying to read. Whenever news broke-JFK, civil rights, Vietnam, Watergate, Diana, Monica, 9/11, bin Laden-the vast Newsweek apparatus would thrum to life. Reporting would flow into Manhattan from dozens of bureaus around the world; writers would hammer it into shape. Editors would revise, art and photo would design and illustrate, researchers would check, makeup would arrange, copy would polish, and production would usher it all out the door, usually at warp speed.