A skilled, intuitive and sensitive practitioner of the written language, former Times editor Henry Fuhrmann has died after a brief and sudden illness, his family announced.
No one had really paid too much attention to the hyphen. In matters of race and heritage — as in “African-Americans” or “Italian-Americans” — it was easily overlooked, an innocuous piece of punctuation that seemed to make sense.
While at The Times, Fuhrmann initiated a change in usage from the outdated word “transvestite” to “transgender,” and more recently he championed thewhen describing the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Fuhrmann’s job was to oversee the copy desk, which plays in the organization of newsrooms a critical and purposely isolated role away from reporters and their editors. Copy editors are like judges adjudicating grammatical disputes, managing fragile and pugnacious egos, and addressing demands for speed, accuracy and timeliness.
Caltech. He wanted to be an engineer, but once he started putting out a student newspaper, he found his calling. “We launched a ton of blogs back then,” Stanton said. “They were a different animal compared to what we were used to. In a newsroom that had high standards and traditional ways of doing things, it took some getting used to, and Henry was key in helping us get comfortable in that space.”
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