October 26, 2009Before he became the professor of the Journalism course at the University of Florida in 2001, Mike Foley had a successful newspaper career from 1970 to 1999. From 1920-1973, Foley worked at the St. Petersburg Evening Independent. From 1973 to 1999, he found his niche at Florida's largest newspaper, the St. Petersburg Times. He worked his way up the ladder from city editor, to managing editor, to executive editor, and finally to vice president. Many great writers came and went under his vigil as vice president of the St. Petersburg Times, including Rick Bragg. He recalled his greatest story, coincidentally one of the greatest disasters to ever occur in the St. Petersburg area, as the day a ship crashed into the skyway bridge. 7:38 AM, May 9, 1980, Foley received a call from one of his employees who tipped him off on the event. From there, he began to give out orders to his reporters, sending them to several different areas across the site in order to gather eye-witness reports. By the end of the day, Foley had 23 different stories to choose from. He cites that good editors are able to take a story and make it better-- even if it was good to begin with.
The hierarchy of the newspaper business is as follows: Executive Manager --> Managing Editor --> Assistant Managing Editor --> Metro Editor --> Assistant Metro Editor --> City Editor --> Assistant City Editor --> Reporter
The different types of editors can be described as: Assigning, Copy/Desk/Design, Administrative, Opinions, Online, and Photo/Illustrations
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