"We have to transform the newspaper," he told editors, circling the word "modernize" in his notes.

He was previously dismissed by Money after declining to tell editors about his sources.

"For me, we investigate," he told local editors.

"I believe that conservatism is a main factor impeding perestroika," he told Soviet editors last May.

He told Soviet editors that a gap exists between the goals and the results of his program to restructure the economy.

Some reporters and administrators did not tell editors about Mr. Blair's erratic behavior.

He told editors attending their annual conference: "Statutory regulation of the press would, in my view, be more than wrong-headed.

"Much is for the better," she tells the junior assistants and editors.

But telling editors their publishers need to spend more on news gathering is not a bad gambit.

Do readers tell editors they want more and more intrusive photos?