*Interesting house ad the other day in the St. Petersburg Times comparing the Times to its daily rival, the Tampa Tribune. Across the top it read: “12 Reasons Why We’re Tampa Bay’s Favorite Newspaper.” It then mentioned a bunch of niche writers that the Trib didn’t have–from full-time pop music and book critic to full-time business columnist and society writer.
I get it, but there had to be a way of working in full-time “correspondent-at-large”–or some such appellation–for Susan Taylor Martin. She’s the former
business editor who is frequently on overseas assignment. Most recently writing out of Pakistan. Most newspapers not named the New York Times, Wall Street
Journal or Washington Post, don’t have their own person trotting the globe backgrounding news from international trouble spots. The Wilbur Landrey legacy lives.
If you can reference “society writer,” you can work in Susan Taylor Martin. She’s uniquely good at what she does.
*Speaking of the Times, how about making that (movie) Critics Calls more, well, useful. All movies–from The Help to Change Up–must fit into a
three-category key: “Don’t Miss,” “Don’t Hurry,” “Don’t Bother.” Cute. Problem is, a lot of movies fall between “Don’t Miss” and “Don’t Hurry.” They just do. Maybe “Do Consider.”