Amanda Barrett

In 2001, Amanda Barrett worked as the Internet news manager in the Kew Gardens, Queens, bureau of Newsday . Young and a relative newcomer, Barrett had a background in features and sports editing. Her duties entailed updating the NewYorkNewsday.com website, rewriting stories, coordinating photos, and running the AP wire feed on the site. She reported to Diane Goldie.

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Diane Davis

Davis , a veteran beat reporter, was deputy metropolitan editor for the newspaper and worked under Metropolitan Editor John Mancini at the Queens bureau. [1] Davis’ responsibilities included planning stories, developing the paper’s line-up, assigning reporters to stories and locations, and coordinating those stories with appropriate art and photography. Though Davis and Mancini worked on the print edition of the paper, they coordinated their efforts with the Web staff, who often consulted with them on Web stories.

Diane Goldie

A veteran journalist, Goldie began her career at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel before moving on to a decade-long stint at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver and, eventually, the New York Daily News . By the time she started at Newsday.com as an editor in June 2001, Goldie had almost two decades of daily reporting and editing under her belt. Used to a fast pace, she found the Newsday culture to be far more conservative and deliberate than the hectic newsrooms she was used to. In addition, working in a news organization resistant to new media, Goldie felt unwelcome and that she was not accorded the respect that her experience and years in the field had earned her. She worked at Newsday’s Kew Gardens, Queens, bureau.

At Newsday.com, Goldie supervised Web writers Amanda Barrett and Vera Haller. She reported to Debbie Krenek, the associate editor in charge of Newsday ’s Internet component. Krenek, in turn, reported directly to Howard Schneider, Newsday ’s managing editor.

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Beth Holland

A longtime Newsday staffer, Beth Holland in 2001 was a part-time assistant editor at the Kew Gardens bureau. In that capacity, she could be variously an assigning editor, copy editor, and re-write person.

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Melanie Lefkowitz

Lefkowitz started as a police reporter at Newsday on September 11, 2000. Before that, she was a reporter for the Providence Journal in Rhode Island.

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Jonathan McCarthy

In 2001, Jonathan McCarthy served as the executive producer for Newsday.com. He had been there since the website’s early days, having arrived in November 1996 after a short stint at the New York Times Magazine Group, where he learned HTML and other Web skills. At Newsday.com, McCarthy tried to integrate the Web team into the main newsroom, a process that he found challenging and politically fraught. He also integrated coverage for NewYorkNewsday.com, which appeared as a separate page within the main Newsday.com home page.

Watch McCarthy discuss the culture clash between the Web and print editions at Newsday