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Thursday, May 10, 2007
Former
'LA Times' Baghdad Chief Says Iraqis Are
'Humiliated' Former Los Angeles Times
Baghdad Bureau Chief Borzou Daragahi also doubts
the "surge" in Iraq will work and admits to
deceiving his family, and editors, on some
occasions about life in the war zone, in
upcoming C-SPAN interview.- May 10, 2007 3:40 PM ET
Halberstam's
Widow, Awaiting Word on Accident Probe, Recounts
'Amazing' Tributes to Him "I am grateful for them
taking so much care to get it right, getting as
many witnesses as they can," Jean Halberstam
told E&P Thursday. "As reporters know, if
you have 20 witnesses, you have 20 versions.
They are taking the time to get it
right."- May
10, 2007 2:40 PM ET
'Pop-Ed'
Musician Produces Songs, Videos Inspired by
News In an
unusual two-week promotion, Boston musician Jake
Brennan is creating a hard-core folk song and
video every day for the Web site of the Boston
Globe based on the morning headlines. "It's
obviously an extremely ambitious undertaking,"
says Stephanie Shore, the site's director of
marketing.-
May 10, 2007 10:45 AM ET
Christine Ledbetter Named Asst.
ME/Features at Minneapolis 'Star Tribune'
Christine Ledbetter has been
named assistant managing editor for features at
the Star Tribune in Minneapolis. Ledbetter, who
will start in June, most recently was features
editor at the Chicago
Sun-Times.
Scott
Nulph Named ME at 'Wahpeton (N.D.) Daily
News' Scott Nulph has been
named managing editor of the Wahpeton (N.D.)
Daily News. Nulph most recently was the sports
editor at the Ames (Iowa) Tribune. He succeeds
Karen Speidel.
Gen.
Petraeus and the $2000 Payoff The number of reported incidents of
U.S. troops abusing or killing noncombatants
seems to be on the rise again -- we issued an
apology for another atrocity on Tuesday. Still,
the director of the "surge" in Iraq fails to
tell the whole truth in responding to an AP
reporter's query about a troubling battlefield
survey. - by Greg Mitchell - May 09,
2007
Posting
USA: Separating Signal From Noise on the
Web Who is credible
nowaways? It's not just "question authority"
anymore -- it's question anyone with an online
bully pulpit who wants to tell you how to think
or behave or believe. - by Dennis M.
Wilkins - May 08, 2007
A
Haunting Front Page -- Before 9/11 Changed
Everything Everyone
remembers, or may even retain, a front page from
the local newspaper on the day after 9/11. But a
look at the paper on the morning of the
terrorist attacks in 2001 really shows what we
have lost since. - by Greg Mitchell - May
03, 2007
N.
Christian Anderson III is E&P's Publisher of
the Year Anderson is leading the
Orange County Register as publisher in a hot
market during a distinctly frigid time for
newspapers. Just as the Register helped change
Orange County and gave it a badly needed
identity, Anderson and his paper have the
potential to reshape a troubled newspaper
industry -- by leading with innovation and
risk-taking in pioneering efforts to amass an
audience with a portfolio of products that use
or discard the Register brand as needed.
What
Gives? E&P interviewed
several dozen reporters and editors who
described in often painful detail how the
current pressures -- both economic and
journalistic -- are affecting them. Some editors
claim the reduced workforce and increased needs
are not hurting newsrooms, just requiring better
organization and planning. Others admit they
have had to abandon some beats entirely, and in
a few cases, eliminate whole sections -- not to
mention foreign bureaus -- to allow for the
smaller staff and online push.
Counting
on the Web Arthur Sulzberger Jr.,
chairman of The New York Times Co., was attacked
by media hounds in February when he casually
remarked that he didn't much care if his
flagship paper appeared only on the Web in five
years. While Sulzberger knows that pulp isn't
going to the scrap heap any time soon (and he
has long avowed that he is "platform agnostic"),
his comment still managed to stir debate over
pushing more resources to the digital side in
hopes that it can serve as a lifeboat for a
slowly sinking industry.
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