RIP, Si Newhouse

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Run Free, Editors!

“I am not an editor. I flounder when people ask me, ‘What would you do?’” His philosophy, he said, was to let his editors run free. “We feel almost that whichever way it goes, as long as it doesn’t do something absolutely screwy, you can build a magazine around the direction an editor takes.”

—S.I. Newhouse (1927-2017), magazine mogul, in Jonathan Kandell’s obit, “S.I. Newhouse Jr., Who Turned Condé Nast Into a Magazine Powerhouse, Dies at 89,” The New York Times, Oct. 1, 2017. Chester Higgins/NYT photo, 1985.

• Editorial Comment: “Screwy”? Have you looked around, Si?

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