Alvin Shuster is senior consulting editor of the Los Angeles Times, having retired in 1995 as the foreign editor, a job he had for some dozen years.(1967)

Nieman Reports, September, 2004 by Fiore, Lois

Alvin Shuster is senior consulting editor of the Los Angeles Times, having retired in 1995 as the foreign editor, a job he had for some dozen years. He writes: "The result is no lifting of heavy or light copy, no approval authority over weird expense accounts, no queries from the far flung asking where they are going next, no keep-awake worries about whether our folks are in the right place at the right time. The younger minds have taken over all that, and I miss daily contact with that talented foreign staff. But I do have an office at the paper and keep in touch.

"After retiring as foreign editor, I worked with the International Press Institute and became founding editor of its new magazine on international journalism that is now in the hands of Stu...

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