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"I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and is masochistic. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street." - James Jones
Newhouse's Bureau Chief Ready for Post Onslaught
She will have an office in the paper's fifth-floor newsroom, a weekly column on the paper's editorial page and a two-year contract with a possible one-year extension by mutual agreement, the Post said.
"She is particularly good at looking at journalism from a reader's point of view," Exec Editor Len Downie said.
The current ombudsman, Michael Getler, explained that the "large" job has changed as people are increasingly apt to just dash off an email. He said he receives hundreds of e-mails, 15 to 20 telephone calls and a letter or two each day.
(Newhouse News, if you're not familiar with it, is an excellent and off-the-beaten-track news organization. This ASNE article, from Howell's early days there, explains why its take is a little different.)
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