In every case, though, editors try to let news events or developments dictate how much news coverage an event will get – and sometimes that has nothing to do with a round number.
Now, though, her editor and fans count on her to pump out two new installments a year.
That's not to say I always get it right, even though, as editor of Esquire magazine, I've been studying the rules for years.
The law targets Hungarian media outlets, not individuals (though editors can be subjected to harsh fines for coverage that the government finds objectionable).
So it was unsurprising that images of that event dominated much of the pictorial coverage, though editors were surely influenced by the presence of the Duchess of Cambridge.
Though editors have mixed feelings about it, The Times has so far bowed to Web custom by allowing readers to use screen names, as long as they don't claim to be Thomas Paine, Condi Rice or a famous porn star.
There has always been uncertainty over the point of Sunday paper internet sites, though editors tended to become less sceptical once they noticed their proprietors showing enthusiasm for the medium.
Though editors have come and gone, and technology has created opportunities and crises in equal measure, the more writers and photographers I got to know, the more that sense of the underground stewardship of something valuable persisted.
My view as a relative outsider - although I was editor-in-chief of The Independent for 13 years, I was never invited to serve on the PCC, even though editors with less experience were - was that unless the public had confidence in the process of self-regulation, it was ultimately doomed as a concept.
