Kings, Presidents, Editors, and People with Tapeworms
War on the Rocks
War on the Rocks
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
"Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'" This line, often attributed to Mark Twain (it wasn't him) speaks to the thorny feelings that writers associate with those who shape their prose. Now that the War on the Rocks editorial team has grown so much, we thought this was a good opportunity for you to get to know our Washington-based editors a bit better: Doyle Hodges, Shane Mason, and Rebecca Zimmerman. This team combines career experience in the U.S. Navy, various think tanks, in the fields and headquarters of Afghanistan, to low-budget music tour vans. If you're interested in their career trajectories, mentors who made a difference, how to be a civilian in a military dominated environment (or vice versa), the books and plays they love, hard-earned professional lessons, or just better knowing the people who wield the red pen, you'll enjoy this one.
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| 0:00.0 | You were listening to War on the Rocks, a podcast on Strategy Defense and Foreign Affairs. |
| 0:14.0 | My name is Ryan Evans, I'm the CEO of War on the Rocks. |
| 0:15.7 | We have a, well, every episode of War on the Rocks is very special. |
| 0:20.5 | This is a very special, extra special, stupendously, stupidly special episode. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm joined solely by colleagues by people who work with me here at War on the Rocks. |
| 0:34.6 | If you could all briefly go around the table and introduce yourselves, |
| 0:38.9 | I think that would be most welcome. |
| 0:41.8 | I'm Rebecca Zimmerman. I'm editor-in-chief at War on the Rocks. |
| 0:45.0 | I'm Doyle Hodges. I'm the Executive Editor of Texas National Security Review. |
| 0:49.0 | And I'm Shane Mason, Managing Editor at War on the Rocks. |
| 0:52.0 | I'm Trey Hester, Operations Coordinator and Digital Director for War on the Rocks. |
| 0:55.6 | Trey, you're not a part of this. |
| 0:57.6 | That is better known as producer Trey, he's the man that makes all War on the rocks podcast possible. So a lot of you who |
| 1:06.1 | listen to this podcast have been listening to my voice too much probably for over six |
| 1:12.3 | years now. |
| 1:13.0 | You know a lot of things about me, |
| 1:15.0 | but you don't know a lot of things about the important people who make up the rest of |
| 1:18.2 | War on the Rocks. |
| 1:19.2 | We have a lot of varied experience here from working at think tanks to working at consulting firms to |
| 1:25.0 | working in the Navy in Doyle's case and in academia. So a lot of collective |
| 1:30.0 | experience around this table and and let's let's sort of get started actually |
| 1:33.4 | Shane let's start with you so you joined us as managing editor you replace the |
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