Article: A fond farewell to a great one: AJR's managing editor joins USA Today.(FULL COURT PRESS)(American Journalism Review's Rachel Smolkin)(Essay)

It's hard for me to imagine AJR without Rachel Smolkin.

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For the past five years, Rachel has had at least one major feature article in all but one issue of the magazine. And for the past 20 months she's been AJR's managing editor.

But I'm going to have to get used to it: Rach is leaving AJR to become an assignment editor on the national desk at USA Today.

It's a great opportunity for her. She'll be overseeing the legal team, which includes the Supreme Court and Justice Department reporters, at the nation's largest-circulating newspaper. And with the profound changes in progress at the court and the turbulence at ...

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