The Media Drop

Indianapolis Star editor Dennis Ryerson writes about how journalists can exist as people as a member of society while still making sure to stay on the ethical side of doing their jobs.

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E&P points out that the editor of the Tribune-owned free daily amNewYork, Alex Storozynski, had resigned. While Tribune is sticking to the idea that Storozynski left due to an article being “improperly sourced,” the outgoing staffer isn’t in agreement.

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In Sunday’s Portland Press Herald, editor Jeannine Guttman describes how the newspaper has formalized training to ensure their entire staff has all the journalism skills needed to be successful at what they do. The Poynter Institute has been brought in to work on a three day program this fall, which will cover everything from ethical […]

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A couple of weeks ago, word got out that Infinity was ditching the oldies format at 101.1 WCBS-FM for the “Jack” format they’ve been rolling out elsewhere, due to the demographics for that type of sound providing easier advertising sales. Yesterday, the David Hinckley offered details in the New York Daily News about a planned […]

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The Chicago Tribune’s Mary Ann Fergus reports on the documentary created by 7th grade student Marissa Suchyta about one of the well known media blunders of our time, the “Dewey Defeats Truman” hed that ran in the Chicago Daily Tribune in 1948. Suchyta won a $500 prize in a national contest for her efforts.

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On Thursday, Knight Ridder published a report out of Russia stating that authorities in that country believe that Chechen rebel leader Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev is responsible for the murder of Forbes‘ Russian-language editor, Paul Klebnikov, last July.

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Just a heads up, I’m at the Assocation of National Advertisers’ Print Forum in NYC today - blogging will probably be light. I’ll have some good coverage a little later on over at AdJab and hope to get some good things for TMD as well, as there are quite a few publications here at the […]

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For some delusional reason, I’ve started another blog. You can find it at tombiro.info. It’ll be full of really random links and commentary and such. Enjoy!

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Over at Barista of Bloomfield Avenue, they’ve got an “exclusive” commentary by NPR correspondent Luke Burbank, who provides the lowdown on how the caste system “pecking order” of media types went down at the Michael Jackson trial in Santa Maria.
Gee, and you thought the fun and excitement ended after high school - you thought wrong!

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On Tuesday afternoon, word was trickling out that Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s “Countdown” program would be returning to ESPN, though not to his famed “SportsCenter” chair that he anchored next to Dan Patrick - though he would be working alongside Patrick again, we think. As of August 5, he’ll be on the air during […]

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