Janet Elder, who in a three-decade career at The New York Times rose from reporter to deputy managing editor, along the way spending many years as the editor of news surveys and election analysis, died on Wednesday. …
She was hired by The Times full time in the mid-1980s after working at the Children’s Storefront, a tuition-free school in East Harlem. But Adam Clymer, a retired colleague who once led the paper’s polling operation, said her first involvement with the paper was actually much earlier, as an interviewer on the first CBS News/Times poll in the mid-1970s. CONT.
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times