For journo stuff, hypothetical deity help me, MS Word is my editor of choice. Mainly for the outliner -- it's the _only_ mainstream wordprocessor that still includes outline mode, which I find indispensable.
I mainly use Word 97 -- not the rest of Office, just a standalone copy of Word. It runs perfectly on WINE under Ubuntu. The service releases installed fine. It runs with full access to the host filesystem, cut-and-paste, file associations, the lot. And run on hardware a decade newer than it was written for, it is blisteringly fast.
For a project last year, I had to temporarily move to a newer version -- Word 2003. That needed Crossover Office to install properly, but it too works perfectly and supports widescreens and 1080P monitors in portrait resolution just fine.