Best editors

Who are the best editors you've worked for (that are still alive) and why were they great?

 

Mike Harris.

 

Mods, lock this thread!

 

please.

 

They're all dead Johnny.

 

No. Let's not do that...
Not in any order:
Solomon, Smith and Dwyre.

 

Hmmm, I heard he was a hack.

 

Thanks Dooley and others.

Oh wait you mean the OTHER Mike Harris. Damn. The one who worked for Media General. Wait I worked for Media General too. Ahhh You mean Michael J. Harris. Wait, that was me too.

Sooooo are you confused? Did I throw a monkey wrench into this thread?

 

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Not that one.

 

DTGDTN!

 

I don't know if his was a sustainable style for a career, but an editor who taught me a lot and set the tone for what to come was, believe it or not: T.J. Simers.

A couple of guys in Clearwater, Florida: Ron Stuart and Mike Davis. I know where Stuart is, but I've completely lost track of Davis.

Then there's the usual suspects that everybody knows. I feel like I've been coached by or worked with a bunch of Hall of Famers: Fred Turner, Paul Anger, Dan Cunningham, Herb Stutz, Bill Dwyre, Tim Burke.

The one nobody's heard of? Mary Kress. Tough, really smart, a really creative thinker, and the kind of person you could have an knock-down, drag-out argument with and then five minutes later be talking about her kids.

Oddly, she has a pretty good chance of being my favorite ever.

I guess I didn't really answer the question, but those are my reference points. Not bad reference points, either.