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Jack Unruh
You don’t get far into a conversation with Jack Unruh without noticing two things. First, he has a quick wit and a ready laugh. Second, his language can make a sailor jealous and your mother blush. The longtime Dallas resident has contributed to more *!#$ magazines than he can remember, and he’ll be *!#$ if he knows how he landed the assignment to illustrate Michael Ennis’s column about Texas politics (“All Shook Up,”), which turned out to be a “holy *!#$ terror.” “I didn’t really know what direction to go,” Unruh says, chuckling. “So I said, ‘Let’s have the candidates march into each other.’” The image, though, perfectly captures the spirit of the piece. “Well, *!#$, occasionally that happens.”
Stacy Hollister
Assistant managing editor Stacy Hollister remembers the exact moment she decided to pursue a career in sports journalism. She was a freshman at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, and her dad scored tickets to see the Stars take on the Los Angeles Kings. “Our seats were four rows off the ice,” she says. “I fell in love with hockey—and developed a crush on Mike Modano.” Hollister went on to earn a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, and in January 2002 she started at texas monthly as an intern. In addition to editing, she now writes the Sports Authorities column in Reporter, and this month she talks with the head coaches of the women’s basketball teams at Texas Tech, the University of Texas, and Baylor. As for future stories, Modano can expect a phone call at any time.
S. C. Gwynne
Was Dell, the world’s largest computer maker, really taking a dive? That’s what executive editor S. C. Gwynne wanted to uncover when he set out to write about the Round Rock–based company (“Dell Freezes Over,”). “If you’ve been looking at the headlines of the newspapers,” explains Gwynne, “it’s just been one big chain of bad news for the past year.” To find out how bad it really was, Gwynne interviewed top executives and former employees and even attended a five-hundred-person private meeting at Dell’s new factory in China. His conclusion? “Dell is being punished because recently it hasn’t been its old superstar self,” he says. “But it’s still one of the best companies in the world. People lose sight of that.”
Jack Unruh
You don’t get far into a conversation with Jack Unruh without noticing two things. First, he has a quick wit and a ready laugh. Second, his language can make a sailor jealous and your mother blush. The longtime Dallas resident has contributed to more *!#$ magazines than he can remember, and he’ll be *!#$ if he knows how he landed the assignment to illustrate Michael Ennis’s column about Texas politics (“All Shook Up,”), which turned out to be a “holy *!#$ terror.” “I didn’t really know what direction to go,” Unruh says, chuckling. “So I said, ‘Let’s have the candidates march into each other.’” The image, though, perfectly captures the spirit of the piece. “Well, *!#$, occasionally that happens.”
Stacy Hollister
Assistant managing editor Stacy Hollister remembers the exact moment she decided to pursue a career in sports journalism. She was a freshman at Ursuline Academy of Dallas, and her dad scored tickets to see the Stars take on the Los Angeles Kings. “Our seats were four rows off the ice,” she says. “I fell in love with hockey—and developed a crush on Mike Modano.” Hollister went on to earn a journalism degree from the University of Missouri, and in January 2002 she started at texas monthly as an intern. In addition to editing, she now writes the Sports Authorities column in Reporter, and this month she talks with the head coaches of the women’s basketball teams at Texas Tech, the University of Texas, and Baylor. As for future stories, Modano can expect a phone call at any time.
S. C. Gwynne
Was Dell, the world’s largest computer maker, really taking a dive? That’s what executive editor S. C. Gwynne wanted to uncover when he set out to write about the Round Rock–based company (“Dell Freezes Over,”). “If you’ve been looking at the headlines of the newspapers,” explains Gwynne, “it’s just been one big chain of bad news for the past year.” To find out how bad it really was, Gwynne interviewed top executives and former employees and even attended a five-hundred-person private meeting at Dell’s new factory in China. His conclusion? “Dell is being punished because recently it hasn’t been its old superstar self,” he says. “But it’s still one of the best companies in the world. People lose sight of that.”
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