Baltimore Sun
"The reason I almost didn't find a publisher was because books on Iraq don't sell," says CBS News' Kimberly Dozier. "Over and over, when I was shopping it around, editors would say, 'Gee, it's about Iraq.' But you know what, I had to admit that when we put Iraq on TV, people are changing the channel." She was eventually signed by Meredith Books.
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New York Times
CNN president Jon Klein says there'd be no good programming reason to move Larry King off 9 p.m. He calls King's show "one of the few appointment viewing shows on television. It takes years and years to build that up." What about Katie Couric? "She's got a job at CBS. She's got a contract over there. That's all there is to say."
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Huffington Post
That's how Talking Points Memo founder Josh Marshall (left) described himself at a conference on the future of the web. Ari Melber reports Marshall told the audience that traditional reporters are "terrorized" by economic and competitive challenges, and that when openings for entry-level jobs are posted at Talking Points Memo, applications come in from senior investigate journalists. The industry changes are bad for journalists, he said, but good for journalism.
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blogs.tampabay.com
Here's how, according to one of Eric Deggans' TV industry sources:
Old rule: news is news. New rule: news is marketing.
Old rule: weather gets the attention it deserves. New rule: rain is a lead story.
Old rule: cover the issues. New rule: cover the emotions.
Old rule: cover breaking news. New rule: make up breaking news.
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PBS MediaShift | Romenesko Letters
Mark Glaser pans this week's E&P/Mediaweek Interactive Media Conference in Las Vegas. "There was a low-energy, dead feel to the 'crowd' of about 100 attendees who were in the audience when the conference started," he writes. "It was almost like a wake for traditional media companies, even though many of them have been doing innovative work." || E&P editor Greg Mitchell responds.
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PBS.org | Salon
Michael Getler says of the Daniel Amen "infomercial" controversy: "PBS had nothing to do with the program's content and did not vet the program in any way. Local PBS-affiliated stations are independent, locally owned and operated, get material from sources other than PBS and make their own editorial decisions based on their own guidelines about what to air. But, despite all those things that viewers may or may not be aware of, when that pledge special is broadcast on what viewers do know as their local PBS station, it can cause confusion and challenge."
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Nieman Foundation | Crabwalk.com
The 71st class includes editors, online journalists, columnists and editorial writers, broadcasters, a photojournalist and a filmmaker. || ALSO: Joshua Benton has been named founding director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project.
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Newsday
An SEC filing says Tribune "does not anticipate that there will be any 'employment losses'" as a result of the Cablevision deal that would trigger a federal requirement to notify workers of cuts. The president of the union that represents Newsday employees says his reading of the filing is that "they're going to honor our contract," which extends to 2010.
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Dayton Business Journal
A Rotary Club that banned the Dayton Newspaper Guild from marching in an upcoming parade has done an about-face. "We just don't want any controversy," says a club rep. "This is a friendly, family event, and we just want people to have a good time." The union has been in contract talks with the Dayton Daily News for over a year.
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Editor & Publisher
Post executive editor Leonard Downie Jr. apparently isn't one of them. Asked about rumors about his departure, Downie tells Joe Strupp: "People must be hard up for subjects. ... The publisher and I are hard at work on the restructuring of the newsroom and its relationship with the website. I am still working in my office."
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Romenesko Misc.
Former Miami Herald executive editor Tom Fiedler has been named dean of Boston University's College of Communication. "I cannot tell you how thrilled I am about this," says Fiedler, 62. "It was at [the school] that I learned the skills that set me off on a career in journalism and gave me the appreciation of what that profession meant." He received a master's degree in journalism from Boston U. in 1971.
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Deadline Club
They honor the best in New York based journalism. There are winners in 31 categories.
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Media Nation | Workbench
Dan Kennedy asks after reading Boston Herald sportswriter John Tomase's screw-up explanation: Where were the editors? What stopped Tomase from tracking down a first-hand source? || Rogers Cadenhead: "Tomase leaves out the only real detail that matters -- the name of the person who passed along bogus information."
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Romenesko Misc. | Los Angeles Times
Former journalist Anita Busch says convicted private investigator Anthony Pellicano and his associates used the Los Angeles Times "to smear and discredit" enemies. Busch says in a statement: "The Pellicano case coverage in the L.A. Times as reported by Chuck Philips (who told the NY Times that Pellicano was his longtime news source) should be examined. It's a case study of how Pellicano worked his media relationships to try to destroy his adversaries."
> Earlier: Busch gives riveting account of months of intimidation (THR)
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Memphis Flyer
Flyer columnist John Branston asked in this week's column: "So who should be the HNIC of the Memphis City Schools?" He explains that HNIC was used in the movie "Lean On Me," and stands for "head [N-word] in charge." Editor Bruce VanWyngarden tells readers: "It was not intended as a racial slur but as a cultural reference to a very real and important decision facing our school board." || Related WREG-TV report.
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Chicago Tribune
"For the journalists here, tomorrow would not be too soon [for the Cubs to be sold]," says managing editor/news George de Lama. Public editor Timothy McNulty writes: "Tribune Co.'s ownership of the Cubs has been a bane not only to those who write and edit sports pages, but to business and metro reporters as well. I hear about it constantly."
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Boston Herald | Technorati
The Herald's John Tomase writes in his explanation of how he got his walkthrough videotaping story wrong: "First and foremost, this is about a writer breaking one of the cardinal rules of journalism. I failed to keep challenging what I had been told. I had repeatedly heard that this walkthrough had been taped, and from people I trusted. Eventually I accepted it as fact and stopped questioning the assertion." || Read bloggers' reactions to Tomase's piece.
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Editor & Publisher
The Times wins for Best Business Blog, Best News Website and Best Overall Newspaper-Affiliated Website. USA Today wins in the Best Entertainment Blog and Best Sports Website categories. PLUS: More winners.
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New York Review of Magazines
Students in the magazine department at Columbia University j-school -- advised by Victor Navasky -- have put out another issue of the New York Review of Magazines. The first issue was published in 2001.
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Radar Online
Charles Kaiser hears that an announcement could come as early as today. He says columnist David Ignatius and managing editor Phil Bennett are the leading inside candidates to succeed Leonard Downie Jr. (For what it's worth, Kaiser's brother is Post associate editor Robert Kaiser. CHARLES WRITES TO ROMENESKO: "Robert is indeed my brother but he is almost never a source when I'm reporting a Post story. The one about his boss was not an exception.")
> DC media blogs rush to post the latest Downie departure rumors (E&P)
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Minnesota Monitor | Star Tribune
David Hanners admits that asking another paper to fire a columnist -- the Strib's Katherine Kersten, in this case -- "is a grave step and one I don't take lightly...but on a professional level, when Kersten [writes] stuff like this, it reflects upon all of us who have to go out there day after day and try to get people to talk to us for stories." The Pioneer Press reporter adds: "While columnists should be granted wide latitude in expressing opinion, they -- like reporters -- have to maintain fidelity to facts." || Kersten writes: "I'm reviled on a daily basis as the poorest excuse for a journalist since ... well, since there was journalism."
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> TV health reporters often re-voice stories done by outsiders (Deggans)
> Minnesota pols tell audio/video-equipped reporters to get lost (Strib)
> Why did the Forward pass over Newhouse for editor position? (HuffPost)
> Report: Star Tribune newsroom budget to be cut by 10% (MinnPost.com)
> Margolis: Good journalism requires more than just journalistic skills (CCJ)
> WP film critic Hunter looks primed for big things as a novelist (W'tonian)
> Sources say about 30 at News & Observer accepted paper's buyout (TBN)
> Shafer: Why the reverential treatment of Rauschenberg in obits? (Slate)
> Onetime foes Colorado Daily, Daily Camera now share space (Westword)
> Ex-OC Register publisher Anderson named visiting prof at ASU (E&P)
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Austin American-Statesman | Romenesko Memos
Michael Levy, who launched Texas Monthly in 1973, writes in his retirement announcement: "People who remember 'the good ol' days' have bad memories. It was scary. Our offices were in a walk-up with the Xerox on my desk so I could count the copies people were making. Gas coming through the heating system giving us awful headaches. Bats flying around. Too many times we should have been forced out of business. If our printer had not forgotten to send us a bill for the first six months because we were so small, we would have been bankrupt."
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Philly.com
"When cameras roll, a lot of the extras stroll, making the newsroom look less librarylike -- and with a younger staff -- than usual," writes Peter Mucha. Former Inky columnist and "Marley" author John Grogan is played by Owen Wilson.
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Romenesko Memos
Fred Schulte and June Arney win for their stories exposing real estate speculators who use an arcane law to seize the homes of Baltimore residents over debts that sometimes amount to little more than pocket change.
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Association of Alternative Newsweeklies
LA Weekly leads the pack with finalists in eight different categories. Santa Fe Reporter and Washington City Paper closely follow with six finalists in five different categories.
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Kansas City Star
Mike Fannin has been the Star's managing editor/sports and features. He replaces Mark Zieman, who was promoted to publisher in March.
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Columbia News Tonight
Former Times executive editor Max Frankel says in a video interview: "Rupert Murdoch's aspiration of taking on the New York Times, I think, is a very reasonable ambition. He's a formidable competitor and if I were at the Times, I'd worry about it. And I think his ideas about shorter stories and a more user-friendly newspaper are right-on, and the Times had better watch its backside."
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Newsday
After meeting with publisher Tim Knight and other Newsday execs, Cablevision chief operating officer Tom Rutledge released this statement: "We respect the editorial integrity of Newsday and the reputation of its employees and, when the sale is complete, we look forward to building a bigger and even better Newsday." He didn't meet with reporters, and Knight wasn't available to discuss his meeting.
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Associated Press | Romenesko Memos
In this newly expanded position, Michael Oreskes will oversee all US news from the Associated Press, from state bureaus to national political coverage. Oreskes, 53, has been International Herald Tribune executive editor since 2005. Previously, he was deputy managing editor of the New York Times, supervising television and Internet content. || Read Oreskes' memo to IHT staff.
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NYTimes.com | PaidContent.org | MarketWatch
The deal comes just as CNET Networks was trying to fend off activist investors seeking to take control of its board of directors. CBS is paying $11.50 for each CNET share, a 45% premium to where the stock closed on Wednesday. || Rafat Ali: "Everyone looked at CNET, but couldn't make the economics work." || Jon Friedman: CEO Les Moonves appears to be making a grand statement to his boss, not to Wall Street.
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Portfolio.com
Jeff Bercovici says Will Lewis has many qualities of Rupert Murdoch's ideal candidate for Wall Street Journal managing editor: business acumen, impatience for change, familiarity with the Murdoch ethos, and a friendship with WSJ publisher Robert Thomson.
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Boston Globe
A New England Patriots spokesman says a lawsuit against the Boston Herald "has been discussed" but adds, "I don't think we're pursuing that at this time." Media analysts say the Herald's front page apology left some questions unanswered. Alex Jones of Harvard's Shorenstein Center asks: "Were they lied to, or was this someone who gave them information that he or she thought was accurate? It seems to me you do not owe confidentiality to a source that lied to you."
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Boston Herald
Even after Wednesday's front page retraction and apology to the Patriots, "I continue to stand behind the work of the Herald sports department and John Tomase, a talented journalist who has dealt with this difficult matter professionally while continuing to do his job under intense pressure," says editor Kevin Convey. || Earlier: Tomase reports a Pats employee filmed the Rams.
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Boston Phoenix
Adam Reilly's list includes "hints of misogyny" and "physically fit to serve?"
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Seattle Times Blog
Charlie Rose, Tom Friedman, Tom Brokaw, Michael Kinsley and Maria Bartiromo are all mingling with execs at Bill Gates' annual closed-door CEO Summit. "If Microsoft's inviting select journalists behind the curtain, does that mean we'll finally get news coverage from inside the event?" asks Brier Dudley. || Related from the Post-Intelligencer.
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Washington Post
But with limitations, says Robert Novak, who celebrates 45 years as a political columnist. "I still occasionally go on the campaign trail, but not nearly so much as in past years. (When I have boarded press buses during the 2008 primary season, reporters some 50 years my junior have gazed at me as though Banquo's ghost had entered their midst.) Nevertheless, at 77, I still make it my principal professional endeavor to find out what is happening behind the scenes in politics and government."
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MiamiHerald.com
"He is biracial," notes James Burnett. "If my better-paid peers insist on continuing to refer to [Barack Obama] as the black candidate, instead of a biracial candidate -- on those occasions when his appearance is relevant to the conversation -- then I am going to have to start referring to him as the white candidate." || CJR.org: Clint Hendler on WP and FT pieces about Obama and racism.
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NewsChallenge.org
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee receives one of the awards for a project that will create a technology to give users more information about the origins and sourcing of digital content. News Challenge prizes, which range from $15,000 to $876,000, were given to individuals, philanthropic organizations and for-profit businesses, including the Bakersfield Californian. // Check out the winners and their project descriptions.
> Knight Foundation chief Ibarguen discusses this year's submissions (WSJ)
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ChicagoTribune.com RosenBlog
Steve Rosenbloom concedes this all may be hooey, but...
* Re the Cubs and Wrigley Field: "I know that Sam Zell said he would sell everything, right down to the heretic naming rights, but Zell also said that he didn't believe that cutting more staff was the way to grow Chicago Tribune revenues, and there he was, ordering more staff cuts."
* "Zell doesn't care what you think. He also doesn't like baseball -- well, owning a baseball team, anyway -- and doesn't care about selling tickets. (I also don't think he loves newspapers in his portfolio, either, but whatever.)"
* "Someone will offer the argument that moving the Cubs will have an adverse affect on the Tribune, but if Zell believes that the Sun-Times will fold in the next year the way some people are talking, then those people angry at the Tribune won't have a lot of choice."
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MinnPost.com
"As much as it pains us to make a statement like that, we have to look at open positions as cost savings," says a union memo to Star Tribune employees. The Guild also says that "we can't be hiring new managers at a time like this. The AME/Investigations job, for example, is a worthwhile position for a newspaper that is financially vigorous. From everything we have been led to believe, that is not the case here."
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Politico.com
David Broder, 78, tells colleagues: "This change will allow me to focus entirely on the column, while freeing up the Post to use its budget for other news-section salaries and expenses."
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Romenesko Memos
"I don't know what my next incarnation will be," George de Lama tells colleagues. "But I am excited at the prospect of exploring the possibilities." Editor Ann Marie Lipinski notes: "George came to this newspaper as a summer intern 30 years ago next month, and worked his way to the masthead by excelling at every assignment he held, including metro reporter, national and foreign correspondent, chief of correspondents, national and foreign editor, deputy managing editor and managing editor."
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Politico.com
WPers mention these potential Leonard Downie Jr. replacements from inside the newsroom: managing editor Phil Bennett, columnist David Ignatius, reporter Rick Atkinson, editorial page editor Fred Hiatt, and Washington accountability editor Marilyn Thompson. Possible outside candidates: Newsweek editor Jon Meacham, ex-Wall Street Journal managing editor Marcus Brauchli, ex-WP managing editor Steve Coll, Times-Picayune editor Jim Amoss, and New York Times DC bureau chief Dean Baquet.
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Editor & Publisher
"We still have various products, the brands, the things we stand for," says Bernie Lunzer, who was recently elected Newspaper Guild president. "We've got more readers than we've ever had before. It is not about increasing eyeballs, it is about increasing revenue." Lunzer wants the union to get "actively involved in the direction of the industry."
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Seattle Times | Post-Intelligencer
"I don't know who would buy it other than the Blethens," says newspaper analyst John Morton, referring to the Seattle Times Co.'s majority owners. "And I'm not sure they have the money." || Related story.
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Washington Post DC Sports Blog | The Big Lead
Tony Kornheiser has seven days to reconsider, but said on his radio show that "I'll have somebody kidnap me and tie me down so I don't change my mind." He added: "It just feels odd. It feels odd and it feels bad. It doesn't feel sad, there's no sadness to it, it just feels wrong. ...All I ever wanted to be was a newspaper writer. This other stuff is great, but I don't care about it. In my mind that's what it says on the headstone, it says 'newspaper guy.'" // Related post.
> Downie retiring? "No announcement coming on Thursday," he says (WCP)
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MarketWatch
By hiring Norman Pearlstine -- a guy with impeccable credentials and connections -- Bloomberg is making a statement: It's poised to do something big, writes Jon Friedman. "Since Dan Doctoroff arrived as president of Bloomberg, the company has made no secret of its desire to grow aggressively. It clearly has major aspirations."
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UCLA Anderson School of Management
The Loeb Awards are described by UCLA as "the highest honors in business journalism." Winners will be announced June 30.
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Hollywood Reporter
The Democrats "haven't played with us," complains Chris Wallace. "I think they miss a tremendous opportunity by boycotting Fox." Wallace's name is rumored on a short list of people CBS might be interested in to replace Katie Couric, but he tells Paul Gough he's not interested. "First of all, I don't think they're going to ask and second of all, I'm very happy at Fox News Channel."
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New York Observer
Cablevision's spokesman screamed at Newsday business desk staffers and "was very pissed off" after the paper sent a reporter to the Dolans' compound for quotes about the family buying the paper. "It's made for an interesting start," says one staffer. Another adds: "They're the only owners who could make you wish for Murdoch."
> How will a CEO who is hostile to journalism treat his journalists? (NYT)
> What happens when a writer slams one of the Dolans' teams? (Newsday)
> Cablevision has to decide whether to spend millions on presses (Newsday)
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Boston Herald Boston Globe
The Herald reported in February that a member of the New England Patriots video staff taped the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough on the day before Super Bowl XXXVI. "We now know that this report was false, and that no tape of the walkthrough ever existed," says the paper. "The Boston Herald regrets the damage done to the team by publication of the allegation." // See the Herald's front page and a related Globe story.
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NPR.org
Ombud Alicia Shepard says no matter what NPR finds, a few things should happen: NPR should make it clear on its website which are distinctly NPR-produced shows and which ones are not; and The Infinite Mind should include information on its website about how it is funded. Earlier: Are doctors shilling for drug companies on public radio? Letters: The Infinite Mind responds to Slate. Letters: The Slate authors answer the show's producer.
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Talking Biz News | NY Observer | FishbowlDC
Jason Zweig, who has been senior writer and columnist at Money, begins his Journal duties on July 1. || MORE MOVES: Bonnie Fuller sheds her AMI management duties to become Star magazine editor-at-large. At the Washington Post, Monica Norton has been named technology editor.
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Sacramento Bee
McClatchy CEO Gary Pruitt told shareholders Tuesday that the company is on the right track despite falling profits, revenue and stock price. He also said McClatchy is open to selling its 49.5% share of the Seattle Times Co., which it acquired as part of the purchase of Knight Ridder in 2006.
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Huffington Post
Marvin Kitman wonders if the Dolans bought Newsday "to stop all the criticism on the sports pages about the way Jim Dolan has been running the Knicks into the ground. ...I can see a Cablevision Newsday dealing with the Knicks' latest failures like the Post will not criticize Bill O'Reilly." The retired Newsday media critic adds: "If the Dolan family is serious about the newspaper business they might start with something a little more modest, perhaps buying a paper in Iowa, a weekly."
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LATimes.com
"I've been unhappy for a long time that we unfailingly identify the right-wing ones as 'conservative' and usually say nothing about the center and left-wing ones," says Los Angeles Times reporter Paul Richter. Assistant managing editor Melissa McCoy says the paper "should try, if there is any labeling necessary, to stick with the individuals involved" and only describe their political leanings, not the foundation's.
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Columbia Journalism Review
This presidential election is arguably the most important in recent history, says CJR, yet fewer seasoned reporters are questioning both candidates and voters. "Meanwhile, the ever-growing armies of pundits deployed by cable outlets on Big Nights -- the debates, Super Tuesday, etc. -- yammer on about What It All Means, though nary a one goes out knocking on the doors of the folks who might tell them."
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Creative Loafing
That's an alt-weekly columnist encouraging his readers to support Tampa Bay's dailies. "I take no joy in the fact that both of the mainstream daily newspapers [St. Petersburg Times and Tampa Tribune] are cutting back staff and/or space to save a few bucks as the business model that made print journalism possible for years crumbles out from underneath us," writes Wayne Garcia.
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St. Paul Pioneer Press
Some say the 12.4 acres of land could go for $4 million to $5 million an acre today, or up to $60 million. "The extra cash could come in handy," notes the Star Tribune's rival.
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The Guardian
BBC Knowledge Magazine will take on National Geographic and other natural history and science publications. It will be published six times a year. The concept researched "very favorably" in America, says a BBC Magazines exec.
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Newsday
James Dolan says he can't guarantee there won't be layoffs at the paper, "but we're going into this thinking that we're going to grow it." Cablevision execs feel "that we can make this paper at least what it was before," referring to circulation declines under Tribune. || Read publisher Tim Knight's note to readers, and editor John Mancini's comment on the sale.
> Newsday changes hands for the fourth time in its 68 years (Newsday)
> Cablevision now has to prove to investors that this was a good deal (WSJ)
> The price Cablevision is paying for Newsday seems too high (Mutter)
> Analysts: Don't expect to see future newspaper bidding wars (Reuters)
> Long Island biz paper criticizes Newsday's coverage of the deal (libizblog)
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Slate
That's what Jack Shafer says in his review of "The Journal Editorial Report" on Fox News. WSJ editorial page editor Paul Gigot "serves mostly softballs to his staff and guests, and the show makes almost no news. ...If advancing the Wall Street Journal editorial page's ideology is the show's intention -- and I think it is -- its producers would be better off hiring a host like [David] Gregory who could torture some fresh intelligence out of Gigot and his staff."
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New York Times
Former Philadelphia Inquirer editorial page editor Jane Eisner has been nominated to become editor of The Forward, New York's Jewish newsweekly. The appointment is expected to become official at a Sunday meeting of the group that oversees the newspaper.
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