Atom Feed from Searchles Fri Jul 25 23:07:33 -0400 2008 en-us driftabit Fri Jul 25 16:14:02 -0400 2008 Around midnight on July 16, New York Times chief political correspondent Adam Nagourney received a terse e-mail from Barack Obama's press office. driftabit Fri Jul 25 15:46:54 -0400 2008 Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin and the city of Memphis have filed a lawsuit to learn who operates a blog harshly critical of Godwin and his department. maybelline Fri Jul 25 13:01:25 -0400 2008 THE controversial July 21 cover of The New Yorker portraying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a Muslim has been a virtual sellout on newsstands. diane_court Fri Jul 25 11:28:45 -0400 2008 Earlier this week, I spoke to a group of AR and PR professionals, and one gentleman from an agency indicated of an interesting phenomenon that was happening among some press –they’re starting to act like analysts. diane_court Thu Jul 24 12:05:27 -0400 2008 As global warming was first becoming a cause célèbre a few years ago, many serious environmentalists worried that green was in danger of becoming a fad -- something that would inevitably recede from consciousness after overtaxing our limited pop-cultural attention span. Kimberley McKee Wed Jul 23 18:30:49 -0400 2008 On the morning of Sunday, July 20, NBC News paterfamilias Tom Brokaw was wrapping up Meet the Press, where he has been anchor since the sudden and untimely death of Tim Russert. Kimberley McKee Wed Jul 23 16:01:21 -0400 2008 You can do a lot in a 140-character Twitter entry, writes John Dickerson at Nieman Reports. And no, the online squib will not spell the end of long form reporting. maybelline Tue Jul 22 16:17:02 -0400 2008 ha, nice maybelline Tue Jul 22 11:01:25 -0400 2008 The Op-Ed section of The New York Times has decided not to publish an opinion piece submitted by Senator John McCain in response to one published last week by his Democratic rival, Senator Barack Obama, on his plan for Iraq. Times officials said David Shipley, editor of the Op-Ed page, kicked back the original version while offering suggestions for changes and revision. Kimberley McKee Mon Jul 21 09:38:14 -0400 2008 This week’s edition of Advertising Age has a somewhat revealing piece concerning movements in Web media space by some old media titans. In particular, The New York Times versus The Wall Street Journal. maybelline Sat Jul 19 16:07:19 -0400 2008 The big story in northeast Wisconsin these days has been whether former Green Bay Packer legend Brett Favre should return to the team after retiring months ago. maybelline Sat Jul 19 16:06:11 -0400 2008 Summary: ABC News and The Washington Post issued staggered releases of the results of their latest poll, withholding from their first release results favorable to Sen. Barack Obama, including the finding that 50 percent of registered voters would vote for Obama for president versus 42 percent for Sen. John McCain. Kimberley McKee Thu Jul 17 20:05:58 -0400 2008 Greg Osberg, the president and worldwide publisher of The Washington Post Company's Newsweek magazine, plans to step down from his role in early fall, online magazine FOLIO reported. Osberg originally joined Newsweek in 1990 before becoming the president of sales and marketing at CNET in 1997. He returned to the magazine in 2000. "I've made it no secret that I have a passion for the digital space," Osberg told FOLIO. "I've always wanted to return there." Though no successor has been named, FOLIO listed Jon Meacham, Newsweek's editor, as a favorite to become president.