The Media Drop

Watching and blogging (when it’s worth it) tonight’s Grammy awards on CBS.
[20:00]Black Eyed Peas “get it started” along with Gwen Stefani and Eve. A little too much gold on this set for me, but they are lookin’ great. Love the ‘old English’ “G&E” om the stage.
[20:04]BEP are back, and tip off […]

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In Sunday’s “Inside the Times” column, Seattle Times executive editor Michael Fancher describes what an internal committee at the newspaper has defined as “plagiarism” and what they recommend to their staffers as a way to completely avoid falling into its trap - and proving to readers, up front, that their work is their own.

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In response to the recent across-the-board censorship in Nepal, members of the country’s Journalists Federation have asked that their fellow journalists draw attention to the oppression in Nepal.

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Should a media critic be “allowed” to write a piece - even one that’s positive - about another publication in his or her employer’s fold? The answer seems simple (yes), but according to what went on at the UK’s Spectator last week, it’s not quite so cut and dry.
Index on Censorship informs […]

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Antonia Zerbisias details the announcement by CanWest that they have installed managing editor Doug Kelly in the Editor-in-Chief spot at the National Post. Outgoing EIC Matthew Fraser is reportedly shifting to an “unspecified planning job” at CanWest.

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The Kansas City Star’s Michelle Burhenn writes about some statements made by the Washington Bureau chief of the Wall Street Journal, Gerald Seib, while at an awards event in Lawrence, Kansas on Friday. While at first I was a little at a loss for why Burhenn’s coverage was so short here, but after reading […]

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FishBowlDC informs that New York Times Washington Bureau correspondent Christopher Marquis passed away Friday from complications related to AIDS.

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Just read over at LGF that CNN News exec Eason Jordan has resigned after recent statements he made about journalists being targeted by the American military overseas went public, causing a furor on the ‘net.
Here’s the AP story.
Wow.
[update]
Michelle Malkin: “How brave of him to hand in his resignation on Friday night.”
She also points out […]

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The Star-Ledger’s Ralph Ortega writes about how a New Jersey-based Christian radio station went from small potatoes to the bigtime by switching from strictly preaching and other religious programming to primarily Christian pop music. Their listenership effectively doubled, Ortega reports, when a new antenna kicked in alongside the format adjustment during the summer of […]

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The Cedar Rapids Gazette has the scoop about the theft of more than $10,000 of equipment from the University of Iowa’s new School of Journalism and Mass Communication building.

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