...and it ain't pretty.
Choice quotes about the Washington Post's National Editor Susan Glasser:
"Yes, Glasser is a smart newswoman, but she's really distinguishing herself with bad management. Washington City Paper should have listened more closely to the various sources who cast her as a train wreck."
"Glasser's detractors have recently found a more attentive ear. This winter, Tom Wilkinson, a veteran editor at the Post, conducted a series of interviews with national staffers under Glasser's supervision. ... Wilkinson in late March circulated a written report that is allegedly critical of Glasser to a short list of Post managers."
"With an assist from Chandrasekaran, Glasser has a vision for the stories that her people should be covering, and sometimes other views have trouble sneaking into the mix. Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell addressed this very point in a March 23 column detailing how the paper's national desk--as well as Metro--turned down a staffer's pitch to get a jump on the story about the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright." (ed. note: Wow, way to go Deb!)
"Cultural clashes, however, don't figure as prominently in the Glasser indictment as do attitude and arrogance. When contacted for this story, two of her colleagues volunteered the same observation: In meetings, Glasser goes out of her way to make clear that she's the top expert on the issue at hand, whatever the issue may be."
"Big shots at the Post, though, worry about sustainable agriculture. If Glasser is pissing off people as central to the brand as Milbank, how far is the section from a brain drain that'll hurt the product?"
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