Article: He stopped the presses. (Memoir).('The Last Editor: How I Saved the New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency')

FEW THINGS FADE FROM MEMORY as fast as discontinued newspapers. Old TV shows live on in syndication; long-defunct bands have K-EARTH. But when a newspaper folds, there's little to remind former readers of what was once a daily part of their lives. If last month's L.A. Timeses are in some landfill, how about copies of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, which shut down its presses more than a decade ago?

This collective amnesia helps explain the subtitle of Jim Bellows's memoirs The Last Editor: How I Saved The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times from Dullness and Complacency (Andrews McMeel Universal, 368 pages, $27). The veteran ...

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