"Compelling and insightful...any reader who wants to understand how news outlets such as CNN are run might appreciate a behind-the-scenes glimpse from a longtime insider."

"The person in that job is supposed to carry the mantle of change, but Gerstner has put a longtime insider in there," he said.

He is a longtime insider, part of management's entourage.

Each is a longtime political insider with a head for figures.

Mr. Bush, the longtime insider, the close observer of past mistakes, is striving for that happy medium - neither too involved nor too remote.

Even longtime insiders are just beginning to understand the nature of that power: how Microsoft acquired it, preserves it and exercises it.

He had been able to eke out a victory with 48.5 percent of the vote only because he ran against two longtime insiders who split the establishment vote.

Some civil rights groups have complained that Mr. Martinez, a longtime insider, was part of the department's problem.

He will be succeeded by Rex W. Tillerson, 53, Exxon Mobil's president and a longtime insider.

The 41-year-old Mr. Wiggins, who this summer relinquished his chief executive title to William Sullivan, a longtime insider, is still said to be very much in charge.