A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 25, 1971

WITH this issue, TIME'S readers will find a new category on the magazine's masthead. For many years, a sizable part of TIME'S editorial staff has been identified as RESEARCHERS. Their duties have gradually outgrown that title, and henceforth those staffers will be known as REPORTER-RESEARCHERS. Among them a number with particular experience and responsibility are listed as Senior Staff. -

These changes serve to describe more fully and precisely a range of talents that are essential to TIME'S form of journalism—and have developed since the first issue went to press in 1923. When TIME...