Yesterday I interviewed Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten about his experiences with Miami Herald Executive Editor Janet Chusmir. (Gene was editor of the newspaper’s magazine, Tropic, in the 1980s.)

He gave me some great insight and helped clarify more about her management style for a paper I am working on. He also provided a great story that I will share in a later post.

Janet’s role as a “first” is worth studying and maybe more important is her unique career path. After earning her journalism degree, she stayed at home and raised two children. Then, when they were older, she joined the women’s pages of the Miami Herald. She worked her way through the ranks to the top of the Miami Herald. She died suddenly in 1990 at age 60.

I have discovered 20 of her columns that I will be looking at this week.

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Yesterday I interviewed Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten about his experiences with Miami Herald Executive Editor Janet Chusmir. (Gene was editor of the newspaper’s magazine, Tropic, in the 1980s.)

He gave me some great insight and helped clarify more about her management style for a paper I am working on. He also provided a great story that I will share in a later post.

Janet’s role as a “first” is worth studying and maybe more important is her unique career path. After earning her journalism degree, she stayed at home and raised two children. Then, when they were older, she joined the women’s pages of the Miami Herald. She worked her way through the ranks to the top of the Miami Herald. She died suddenly in 1990 at age 60.

I have discovered 20 of her columns that I will be looking at this week.

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