How a byline problem was solved
Jessica Silver-Greenberg had a front page byline, along with Nelson Schwartz, after her first day at the New York Times. There was one problem, though: her name wouldn’t fit. Business Day night editor Keith Leighty explains how that was solved:
From: Leighty, Keith
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 11:13 PM
To: !NYHQ-bizback
Subject: nite note 03/13I don’t know if A.M. Rosenthal started this way.
But Jessica Silver-Greenberg would not fit in a one-column space on Page A1.
Nor would Jessica SilverGreenberg, and Jess Silver-Greenberg just wasn’t right.
Thus arises: J.B. Silver-Greenberg.
Thanks a tip of the Stetson to our newest writer.Cheers,
kel
* Feb. 17: Silver-Greenberg leaves WSJ to cover banking for NYT
The summer between high school and college, I worked at the weekly Santa Rosa (CA) News-Herald, where the byline “By Richard Jaroslovsky” absolutely couldn’t be made to fit in one column. Since I was also doing the pasteup, I put an X-acto knife to work, and “Richard” became “Rich,” as it has been ever since.
By Nelson D. Schwartz
and
Jessica Silver-Greenberg
That seems a better solution than two initials.
for christopher lehmann-haupt, editors simply never placed him under a one-column headline.