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Wednesday Jan 07, 2009

Farewell

The time has come...

After over three years at both FishbowlDC and at the Washington Examiner, I have the bittersweet news that I'm leaving both publications to join the Politico (I know, how unoriginal...), where I will be spearheading and hosting several online features: Video interviews, features, event coverage and Politico podcasts.

If you're interested in being part of FishbowlDC, click here. If you're interested in the Examiner's Yeas & Nays column, send an email to this address. I'll remain with the Examiner and FishbowlDC until January 30 and will then begin across the river at Politico HQ.

As for you and I, loyal readers: Thanks for everything...for your eyeballs, your tips, your humor, your patience and your support. My jobs at both the Examiner and here at FishbowlDC were my first full-time ventures in journalism and I couldn't have asked for a better introduction and experience.

I hope that we'll continue to bump into each other online at Politico.com and, as always, you can reach me at pwgavin@gmail.com

Best,
Patrick Gavin

>UPDATE: Politico announcement after the jump...

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Three New Hires For C-SPAN

From the release:

C-SPAN co-presidents Rob Kennedy and Susan Swain are pleased to announce three new appointments to the cable network's editorial/technical senior management team, with an eye toward the network's continuing digital conversion and ongoing enhancements to C-SPAN's public affairs product.

* Richard Weinstein, an 18-year C-SPAN veteran, has been named to the newly-created position of Managing Editor where he will serve as operations deputy to programming VP Terence Murphy. Richard brings experience in editorial, technical, marketing, and management to this position. The Field Department and Assignment Desk will report to Richard and he will be responsible for providing oversight and coordination of C-SPAN's daily event coverage and major productions and help introduce ongoing technical improvements to C-SPAN's product.

* Ira Lazernik has been named Director of Production Operations. Ira joins C-SPAN from WTTG-TV (Fox) in Washington, DC, where he has served as production manager for the past decade. Ira brings thirty years of television production management experience to C-SPAN. He will oversee master control operations for the three C-SPAN channels as well as the network's studio production and editing units; he will also be involved with the network's continuing digital conversion process.

* Adam Sharp has been named to the newly-created position of Executive Producer, Digital Services, with responsibility for editorial development and oversight of the network's C-SPAN.org home page and editorial enhancements to daily public affairs coverage on C-SPAN 3. Adam brings to this new role experience on Capitol Hill, in journalism, and in digital technology conversion. He joins C-SPAN on February 2nd from the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) where he has served as Deputy Chief of Staff. From 1992 until 2001, Adam worked for NBC News in a variety of positions, most recently manager of eBusiness and digitization.

CQ Goes Mobile

From the release:

Congressional Quarterly Inc., the nation's premier provider of news, analysis and information on Congress, politics and public policy, today announced the launch of mobile-friendly versions of three of its online services: CQ Today, CQ Schedules and CQ Member Profiles. Subscribers can now use their BlackBerry, iPhone, Palm Treo or other mobile devices to access a wealth of Capitol Hill intelligence from CQ.com.

CQ's new services build on the success of previous mobile-friendly offerings. In the past year, CQ has launched handheld-optimized versions of the following services: CQ Bill Track, which enables subscribers to follow the precise status of bills; CQ TranscriptsWire, which offers real-time access to verbatim congressional and newsmaker transcripts; and CQ Custom E-mail Alerts, which provides subscribers with the ability to click on the links in their alerts and access mobile-friendly news stories, transcripts, bill analysis, vote data and more.

That's The Way It Was And We Liked It!

After the Style honored itself and its 40 years of existence, we got an email critical of the Style section from someone claiming to be a Postie (others had their doubts...) and, now, a Postie has brought to our attention this disgruntled comment to that very Hank Steuver article:

Part of the current problem with Style can be shown by this article, its sloppy reporting, its sloppy style, its horrible writing, its juvenile nature, its complete amateurishness--all qualities that Ben Bradlee hates (to this day), that have destroyed Style, that readers hate (believe us), and that have contributed to the steady decline of the section. Editors: READERS DO NOT WANT TO READ BAD-WRITING STORIES LIKE THIS IN STYLE. Steuver can't seem to understand, after repeated calls and letters and complaints to the Post, that his sloppy, negative, childish writing continually turns off readers. This is not want people want to read in Style. If you wanted a good story about the Style section, Tom Zito, Stephanie Mansfield, Sally Quinn, Tom Shales, Gary Arnold, John Yardley, Richard Harrington, Eve Zibart, Judith Martin, Alan Kriegsman or Henry Allen should have written the piece--not THOSE are true, real, professional, quality Style writers!

Inquiring minds want to know: Is this a former Style staffer?

Here At CNN, We're All Loaded

Spotted by Last Call!

After CNN's John King noted that Dr. Sanjay Gupta "would take a pretty big pay cut if he took" the surgeon general post, CNN's Blitzer reiterated it would be a "huge pay cut" ("Situation Room").

Morning Reading List, 01.07.08

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