The Media Drop

Over the weekend, the NYT’s Katharine Seelye writes about the departure of Washington Post associate editor Steve Coll, who is taking on a role at the New Yorker.

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Sorry for the lack of posting here at TMD over the last few days and slowness the previous two weeks - been handling a lot of side projects and quite a bit of interviewing for full-time gigs, and it’s been taking a lot of time. Needless to say, I’m back in action and all caught […]

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In a column set to run in this week’s New Times Broward-Palm Beach, Bob Norman continues the skewering of the Miami Herald regarding the firing of columnist Jim DeFede after he admitted recording a phone call where the person on the other end - a former local government official who would shortly afterward shoot himself […]

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In an item surely set to cause a stir with some Americans, some editors of the Oregon Daily Emerald detail the “ban” put in place by the Russian government against ABC after they interviewed a Chechen leader wanted in Russia. It seems that since the news network did something that Russia didn’t like, it will […]

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A few days ago, FOXSports.com’s Kevin Hench wrote an item about scoring rules that as a viewer, seem somewhat off-base for the sport of baseball. It’s not the article that I have such issues with, though - it’s more about how he introduces the piece in his subhed.
He credits the line, “If you’re scoring […]

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The Denver Business Journal’s Amy Bryer is critical towards the way that the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News are citing their combined circulation to advertisers. The method, while legal by the rules of the Audit Bureau of Circulations, could be viewed as violating “the spirit” of the guidelines regarding circulation count. Bryer states that […]

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On Sunday, there was a lot of speculation about ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings being “close to death” - speculation that unfortunately came to fruition late last night when Jennings succumbed to lung cancer, which he announced that he had been stricken with last April. And the manner through which I found out […]

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Over at Slashdot, an item posted this morning informs about a note in an article about Google, focused on the company’s apparent need for in-house chefs, that states that the company has now implemented a policy of not speaking with any reporters from the CNET organization until sometime in 2006. This is in apparent retribution […]

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Crain’s is reporting Wednesday afternoon that Knight Ridder has gotten out of the Detroit Free Press, with Gannett jumping in just as they sell the Detroit News to the MediaNews Group.

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Earlier today, The Media Center announced that it would be holding an event later on this year at the headquarters of the Associated Press in NYC - an event called “We Media: Behold the Power of Us.” It’s going to be an all-day event on October 5, featuring speakers and panelists from a variety of […]

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