The Media Drop

Editor & Publisher’s Joe Strupp has the scoop on a proposed ethics policy that’s causing a stir with union leaders representing Associated Press journalists. The items in question include proper use of datelines, attribution for anonymous sources, and restrictions on ownership of company stock.

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The Associated Press is reporting that columnist Jack Newfield died Monday evening at age 66. Newfield most recently wrote for the New York Sun.

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Just saw over at Buzzmachine that the Washington Post was purchasing Slate from Microsoft. WaPo’s Howard Kurtz writes about the paper’s announcement, informing that “Post executives said they would keep Jacob Weisberg as editor and most of the 30-person staff.”
Jarvis, who talked with Kurtz about the deal, said “it’s […]

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At Daily Kos, one diarist posts a critical item about incoming MSNBC host Monica Crowley, who is set to do a show on the cabler with Ron Reagan in early ‘05. In the piece, we’re led to a 1999 article by Slate’s Timothy Noah, “Nixon’s Monica Stonewalls About Plagiarism!”
Noah details an item Crowley had […]

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The Globe and Mail’s Richard Blackwell details the changes planned for the Toronto Star and National Post for 2005. The Star will shift to a “magazine-style broadsheet” for its Sunday edition, and will cover breaking news, “but will now concentrate on feature material,” Blackwell reports. The Post has been increasing front page headline […]

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For the last few weeks, I’ve been pondering putting together a blog “un” conference in New Jersey or New York - most likely the former, due to cost concerns, though. Obviously BloggerCon has been the “big” event for the last couple times around the block, and this isn’t meant to be of that scale […]

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The Associated Press reports Monday that Rommyn Blair Skipper, city editor of Wilmington, North Carolina’s Star-News, died on Saturday from brain cancer. He was 37.

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If you’re interested in a Gmail account, be one of the first ten commenters on this post, and I’ll send you an invite.
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Mosnews.com has the story about Igor Kolodezenko, a newspaper editor who was convicted of publishing anti-Semitic items in a Siberian newspaper, Russkaya Sibir.

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TVNewser reports that CNN’s Tucker Carlson might be the replacement for Deborah Norville in the 9pm timeslot on MSNBC.
On Friday, Robert Cox wondered about what would have to happen “before GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt shuts the entire mess down” at the cable net. Looks like MSNBC boss Rick Kaplan is doing […]

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