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"I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and is masochistic. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street." - James Jones
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A release announced, "In an effort to ensure transparency and accountability in the continuing debate over the future of media ownership in America, Representatives Maurice Hinchey (D-NY), Bart Stupak (D-MI), Louise Slaughter (D-NY) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) ... wrote to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Kevin Martin to request his immediate attention to a number of controversies surrounding the FCC's activities on ten scientific studies released by the agency in late July."
Shelly Palmer, "award-winning inventor, technologist, composer and television producer" will be the featured speaker at a seminar hosted by the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. "Mr. Palmer's presentation takes place 7- 9pm, Wednesday, September 26th at the Intelsat Building, 3007 Tilden Street, NW, Washington. Admission is free to students and NATAS members, $15 for non-NATAS members, payable at the door."
New York Magazine reports, "Denizens of the Wall Street Journal's genteel newsroom were in need of smelling salts last Wednesday after reports surfaced that the paper's new owner, Rupert Murdoch, brought Col Allan, the editor-in-chief of the New York Post, to a kick-the-tires meeting with their bosses."
"Al Neuharth, USA TODAY founder and former chair and chief executive officer of Gannett Co., Inc., addressed more than 1,200 guests and staff at a reception at USA TODAY's headquarters in McLean, Va., on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the nation's newspaper. Founded in 1982, USA TODAY's launch was the most expensive and closely watched newspaper debut in history; 25 years later it is the nation's top selling newspaper." Check out his remarks here.
FishbowlNY reports, "The Kurt Eichenwald underage porn/cash payment story just got a hell of a lot more creepy."
"PoliticsOnline and the World E-Gov Forum are proud to announce the list for nominations of the Top 10 Who Are Changing the World of Internet and Politics." Check it out here.
Portfolio's Jack Flackhas "10 things that Rupert Murdoch may need to do with Dow Jones"
The International Center for Journalists announced, "Three leading journalists with long experience in business journalism will join the international faculty of China's first Global Business Journalism Program at Beijing's Tsinghua University. They include Robert J. Dowling, former managing editor of BusinessWeek International; Ann M. Morrison, former editor of Time Europe; and Nailene Chou Wiest, who was a Knight International Journalism Fellow in China and had worked for Reuters there. Wiest also will serve as the program's co-director."
The Etelos Ecosystem has partnered with the Web application company Entrecore.
Reuters reports, "Fears that a possible U.S. recession will sap advertising spending have soured investors on the media industry, but some entertainment companies just might be more resilient than Wall Street thinks."
The New York Times reports, "The New York Post is about to find out whether a glossy magazine can lift the fortunes of a gritty tabloid. Hoping to increase Sunday circulation and high-end advertising, the Post is introducing Page Six Magazine starting this Sunday."
Connecticut Post's Paul Janenschwrites, "Q: Professor News, why did many journalists call USA Today 'McPaper?' A: Because, they said, it was the news equivalent of fast food — easy to swallow but not very nourishing. The criticism may have been warranted in its early years. But 'The Nation's Newspaper,' which turned 25 last week, has proven to be enormously successful and widely imitated."
Reuters reports, "Six months after grabbing Oscar glory for his eco-documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' former Vice President Al Gore collected an Emmy Award on Sunday for his fledgling youth-oriented cable network, Current TV."
The Associated Press reports, "Shares of New York Times Co. hit a 52-week low for the second day in a row Thursday as a Goldman Sachs analyst cut his price target and lowered some earnings estimates, citing disappointing August ad revenue results."
Ad Age.com reports, "NYT Has Seen Future: It's All the Blogging That's Fit to Print"
WAMU 88.5 announced, "Senior Commentator and Washington, D.C., radio veteran Fred Fiske will celebrate 60 years on the airwaves in Washington, D.C., on September 27."
Bloomberg reports, "Reed Elsevier Plc and Wolters Kluwer NV, two publishers that abandoned a merger in 1998, should again consider combining because of the 'compelling' strategic and financial logic of such a step, Merrill Lynch & Co. said."
The New York Times reports, "Dow Jones & Company and its main labor union have moved close to agreement on a contract for reporters and other employees at The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires, union officials said yesterday."
From the Houston Chronicle, "Hardly a day passes without a reader (or two) accusing the paper of having an unabashed affinity for the opinions of 'liberal' columnists -- eschewing those of conservatives. It's a spurious assertion to which I reply: 'What paper are you reading?'"
Chicago Tribune's Michael Tackettwrites, "The president lost another member of his senior staff Friday when Tony Snow ended his stint as White House press secretary. Snow is the third man to hold that job for President Bush, and by almost any measure, the best. His loss may be felt even more directly than that of the talented Mr. Rove."
Poynter Online reports, "A newsroom without news editors might be the dream of many a trod-upon reporter. But if that really were the case, and it was online users instead who set the news agenda, a new report from The Project for Excellence in Journalism suggests the stories they'd choose to lead the day, and the sources of news to which they'd pay attention, would put us in a very different world of news."
Check out Andrew Sullivan's first reader contest and vote for the best movie line ever.
Daryn Kagan's documentary film, "Breaking the Curse", aired last night on WETA and will re-air tonight at 5PM.
Laura Rozenreports, "The network says it acted quickly when it discovered consultant Alexis Debat had misrepresented his credentials. But sources say a real investigation of his work is beginning only now."
Gawker reports, "Times deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman, in one of his weekly memos to the staff about 'Innovation,' lays this deepness on you (emphasis ours): 'Times have changed. Our online storytelling skills have evolved to the point where you really can get the whole story without reading a newspaper article.'"
The cover of Alan Greenspan's new book, The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, features a cover portrait shot by U.S. News & World Report's Jeff MacMillan several years ago for the magazine.
The Washington Post's Frank Aherns writes, "The head of a burgeoning Afghan media empire looked down at his new BlackBerry, vibrating against a table in Washington earlier this week. 'Afghan civilians injured in Gereshk suicide bombing,' read the e-mail headline. Another day, another suicide bombing in another town. Another too-typical news event for Saad Mohseni's stations to broadcast across a country where prime-time programming is scheduled to fit the nighttime hours when electrical generators are switched on."
"News media organizations must become portfolio entrepreneurs that make experimentation and 'iteration' a way of life and that 'put risk and speed at the center of the corporate altar,' a new report from the Media Management Center concludes."
A tipster tells us, "hotline is having a party, just later this fall. or so i hear."
Variety reports, "News Corp. topper Peter Chernin has urged British TV chiefs to adopt innovative, risk-taking strategies and embrace new media -- or risk extinction."
Reuters reports, "Yahoo Inc is testing an experimental social network service called Mash that makes it easy for Yahoo users to share tidbits of their lives with friends and family online, the company said on Sunday. Mash, to which a limited number of public users began being invited as testers on Friday, was described by a spokeswoman as a new, next-generation service that is independent from the company's 2-1/2 year-old Yahoo 360 degree profile service."
NY Post reports, "By the time many of this fall's new TV shows premiere later this month, a number of Web-savvy viewers will have already given their thumbs-up or thumbs-down. That's because networks including NBC and Fox are offering free sneak peeks of the pilot episodes of their new shows online."
Slate reports, "Why the WSJ Exodus Is Good for Murdoch"
New York Times reports, "Next year, The Wall Street Journal will introduce Pursuits, a glossy monthly magazine about the lifestyles of the rich, in hopes of drawing more ads for expensive consumer goods"
A reader writes in, "From a fan: Is Jose Antonio Vargas bumping fogies like Woodward off the front page? Vargas has had 9 front page stories on his online political beat. Where's the NYT and WSJ?"
Forbes reports, "How's USA Today celebrating it's 25th anniversary this weekend? With shares of parent company Gannett at their lowest closing level in 10 years."
AP reports USA Today "starts its second quarter century with plans to expand its brand beyond the world of journalism."
E&P reports, "In another Web first, The New York Times has posted on its Web site a video Letter to the Editor from Charles Ferguson, the anti-war filmmaker, responding critically to L. Paul Bremer's recent Op-Ed defending his order to dismantle the Iraqi Army in 2003 after the U.S. took Baghdad."
Reuters reports, "Your cell phone may be one of the last spots around that's relatively free of advertising -- but not for long. Media and advertising companies have found a way of latching on to people's handsets by beaming ads to them via Bluetooth, the same technology used in some hands-free headsets."
The Los Angeles Times reports, "The Screen Actors Guild announced Friday that it signed a contract to cover performers on "quarterlife," a Web series that will debut Nov. 11 on MySpaceTV.com"
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