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Mr. Markel” and Times Gone by by MARTHA WEINMAN LEAR Minions Never Saw As Happy As When He Have Been Trying for Months to Was Inflicting Torture Upon Us Society of the Silurians LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS BANQUET The National Arts Club 15 Gramercy Park South Honoring Steve Shepard Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Drinks: 6 P.M. • Dinner: 7:15 P.M. Meet old friends and award winners Published by The Society of The Silurians, Inc., an organization 212-532-0887 of veteran New York City journalists founded in 1924 Members and One Guest $100 each Non-Members $120 NOVEMBER 2017 LifeBY LYNN POVICH with Steve Stephen Shepard, winner of this year’s Silurians’ award for lifetime achievement, for a half century has illuminated the journalist fraternity of New York and the world. For much of that time, he has been married to Lynn Povich, who was the first female Senior Editor of Newsweek, Editor-in-Chief of Working Woman mag- azine and Managing Editor/East Coast of MSNBC.com. Her book, The Good Girls Revolt, was published in 2012. The Si- lurian News asked Povich, who has been by his side for so many of his adventures and accomplishments, to reflect on her journey with Steve. teve was born to be a journalist. It just took him awhile to realize it. S In third grade, at PS 86 in the Bronx, he fell in love with penmanship, which he conflated with writing, and de- cided he should be a sports writer. But was he too shy to try out for the school newspaper at the Bronx High School of Science. At City College, he majored in engineering, but also took journalism courses with Professor Irving Rosenthal, who became a mentor. Steve soon became the editor of The Vector, which was voted the best college science magazine in the country. Still, Steve wasn’t ready to commit to journalism. He got his masters’ degree at Columbia in engineering and even Continued on Page 2 1980: Steve, as Newsweek National editor, with Reagan, Kay Graham and Nancy. “Mr. Markel” and Times Gone By BY MARTHA WEINMAN LEAR minions never saw as happy as when he have been trying for months to was inflicting torture upon us. think how Lester Markel, the late, Abe Rosenthal—God knows, no I largely unlamented Sunday editor slouch for savagery, but a cupcake next of The New York Times, would have to Markel—was Abe. Markel was Mr. reacted to the paper of July 28, 2017. If Markel to everyone, even top editors who he was, as many who knew him believed, had worked for him for 30-plus years. The an ogre, he was also a prig. I imagine him late Herbert Mitgang recalled an office turning to page A 20. He reads “fucking party when some madcap said, “Hello, paranoid schizophrenic”. He reads “not Lester,” and Markel recoiled as though trying to suck my own cock”. What does slapped.“We were all stunned,” Herb he do? I swear I think he would have said, “because we’d always thought his dropped dead. first name was Mister.” In fact he did just that, 40 years ago, on I was at the Magazine (then called The October 23. The great Tom Wicker gave a Sunday Magazine) in the 1960’s, first as eulogy at his funeral. When I asked why an assistant copy editor, then as a staff he had performed that duty, he said, “I writer. I was young and impressionable, guess because nobody else wanted to. I and Markel liked to impress young felt sorry for the old bastard.” women. He held a daily Magazine Markel was The Sunday Times. It was meeting that was for senior editors only his baby. He changed the very meaning of and I, a newcomer, was as junior as you a Sunday paper, transforming the product could get. Yet he insisted I attend. of a single day over the weekend into a It was a production written, staged, model for newspapers across the country, directed by and above all starring Markel, and ran it as his own fiefdom from 1923 whose point was to dismember the men in Lester Markel takes a stroll through The Times morgue with Marilyn until he was eased out in 1964. He was a attendance (there were no senior women) Monroe in 1959. bully, a brat, a brilliant editor whom we Continued on Page 8 PAGE 2 SILURIAN NEWS NOVEMBER 2017 President’s Report Life with BY BERNARD KIRSCH Steve Dear Silurians, Continued from Page 1 he new Silurian season worked for a year as an engineer. But he was unhappy and unfulfilled. Finally, he is off to a fast start, with applied to the editorial training program Tboth Floyd Abrams and at McGraw-Hill and got a job writing Jim Rutenberg drawing extremely for a trade magazine called Product large crowds to our first two lun- Engineering. Two years later, Steve cheons. Both spoke — how could transferred to BusinessWeek starting his they not — about our favorite stellar career: Star science and tech writer topic: the media and our president. at BusinessWeek; Senior Editor of the And I am delighted to write that Business and National Affairs sections for the last few years, we have at Newsweek; Editor, briefly, ofSaturday been averaging well over 100 Si- Review; and back to BusinessWeek, where lurians and guests per luncheon. he was Editor-in-Chief for 20 years, from We expect the rest of the season 1984 until 2004. Journalism plays to Steve’s strengths to continue to be exciting. We are as a person. His friend Jane Bryant hoping to have Katrina vanden Quinn once said what made Steve a great Heuvel, the editor and publisher journalist was that he was a skeptic who of The Nation, and Dan Rather as wanted to get to the bottom of things. As future guest speakers. Stay tuned. he himself said in his book, Deadlines This month we are celebrating and Disruption, My Turbulent Path from our lifetime achievement winner, Print to Digital, he loves dealing with “a Steve Shepard. Together with his complex situation that required hearing Power couple: Steve and our author. wife, the award-winning journalist all sides, sorting through the arguments Lynn Povich, they were our guest and coming to some analytic conclusion destiny--and it’s been a joyride. We That’s Steve. Quietly, without any speakers in 2012. Following a long about what could be done.” As an edi- complement one another. Steve worries fanfare, creating a great new journalism career in magazine journalism, tor, he values what he calls, “the eternal about the big things, I the small ones. school, one that offers students, much like verities of journalism--colorful, accurate He’s the natty dresser in the family, care- he was, a high-quality education at a frac- Steve served as the founding dean reporting, clear, stylish writing, critical fully laying out his clothes each night for tion of the cost of the private universities. of the Graduate School of Journal- thinking, and on our best days, something the next day. I get dressed and out of the Steve stepped down as Dean at the end ism at the City University of New approaching wisdom.” house in 15 minutes. I love reporting, of 2013 and again, I wondered what he York from 2005 to 2014. Prior to What that means for those of us who Steve loves writing. Steve encouraged would do. I knew he was intellectually CUNY, he was editor-in-chief of live with Steve—our kids growing up, me in my career and is my best editor. He curious. When he was a graduate student Business Week for 20 years, a se- as well as me—is that he is thoughtful, says I’m his best sounding board. I’ve at Columbia in engineering, he took a nior editor at Newsweek, and editor insightful, analytical, humble, a good brought him closer to his Jewish roots; seminar on Virginia Woolf. Now he has of Saturday Review. His memoir listener and open to ideas. He is also he’s challenged me in more intellectual first editions of all her novels. When about journalism, Deadlines and impishly witty. When our children, Sar- endeavors. he bought an original photograph of Disruption, was published in 2012. ah and Ned, were small, Steve was an I was curious about what Steve would Woolf, it inspired him to start collecting To know a bit more about Steve, engaged father, walking them to school do when he retired from BusinessWeek in vintage photographs, which continues read his wife’s riff on Life With every morning and making up stories to 2005. But several months before the end, to this day. tell them at night. He was also the Jewish he received a call from Matthew Gold- Steve has always been interested in Steve that begins on page one of mother in our family, a worrier who in- stein, then Chancellor of the City Uni- 20th century Jewish American writers. this issue of The Silurian News, sisted that most things turned out ok only versity of New York. Matthew wanted He has collected first editions of all their which was put out by its editor, because he worried about them. to start a new J-school, the first publicly works. So, I wasn’t surprised that he David A. Andelman. For those Steve is not a self-promoter. He is supported graduate school of journal- signed up for a course in Isaac Bashe- who don’t know David, he is the extraordinarily modest about his suc- ism in the entire Northeast. Why? To vis Singer at City College and started a editor-emeritus of World Policy cesses and has never forgotten his roots.
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