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JournosVeronica De La Cruz Blogs On Her Battle For Health Care Reform
On July 4, 2009, I lost my brother and my only sibling Eric Alexander De La Cruz. He passed away while awaiting a heart transplant. Five years ago, he was diagnosed with severe dilated cardiomyopathy, a weakening of the heart that prevents it from pumping normally. Since then, we had tried to get Eric insurance coverage that would allow him to get the treatment he needed, but no private insurer would offer him insurance because of this preexisting condition. Read the full story here. Photo via CNN Congressman Punches Patrick GavinThis is our former colleague at FishbowlDC current POLITICO reporter Patrick Gavin boxing with Congressman Peter King. The congressman seems to land a couple on Gavin's face. This is every politicians wet dream. Via FishbowlDC FBLA Exclusive: Trendsetter Richard Rushfield Wants Us Not To Follow Him
He sat down with us for a little Q & A about his career move and his new book: FBLA: So how is the switch from traditional media to new media? RR: Ah yes. The switch is invigorating. This is where the conversation is. FBLA: New media is where the conversation is? RR: There were so many times when you'd write a wonderful article for the LATimes, or break some news and it would just be met by the sound of crickets. When you are at the LAT you're at a place where even the website isn't in the central flow of the nation's cultural conversation. But at Gawker one is very much in and a part of that conversation and as one who is writing, in part at least to communicate, that's where you want to be. FBLA: Do you think the struggle is with reporters who enjoy the sound of crickets? RR: Yes, I mean, you are writing not just for the fun of hearing your own voice - although that's at least 2/3 the thrill, but because you want to be read and to make some sort of impression... FBLA: Way to make blogging sound sexy. RR: I'll be considered a supermodel in 700 years. FBLA: So you wrote this book...advising people to not follow you, as you are strangely, the first few in what is sure to be a larger trend in newspapers - reporters becoming pro-bloggers. RR: Come again? If You're a Pasadena Magazine Subscriber You Can Read a Jonathan Gold Piece
Anyway, Jonathan Gold is now writing about food in Pasadena. Former LA Weekly staffer Linda Immediato now managing editor of Pasadena Magazine scored the Pulitzer winner. Sounds like he's not bailing to New York anytime soon. Previously on FBLA: If You're a New Yorker Subscriber There's a Piece on Jonathan Gold
Previously on FBLA: FBLA Goes Fanboy on Jonathan Gold Dominick Dunne Memorial
Thursday night's toast to Dunne was attended by a mix of the people he knew from Hollywood and the courts, and also by the street reporters he met and befriended during the first Phil Spector trial - Ciaran McEvoy, Peter Hong, Harriet Ryan and the court blogger Betsy Ross, aka "Sprocket." Photo from William Morris Endeavor I Understand Now Why You Hate Sandra Tsing LohIt's the same reason I want to beat Elizabeth Wurtzel with an old shoe. They're part of the same cabal of disillusioned essayists making a woman's middle age sound like hell on earth. It has been clearly explained for me by 25-year-old Irina Aleksander in the New York Observer piece "The Cautionary Matrons": Single 40-something women warn us about being too career-oriented and forgetting to factor in children; married women warn us that marriage is a union in which sex and fidelity are optional; and divorced women warn us to keep our weight down, our breasts up and our skin looking like Saran Wrap unless we want our husbands to later leave us for 23-year-olds. Former LAT Washington Bureau Chief Jack Nelson is Dead
From NYT: Jack Nelson, a former Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and Washington bureau chief for The Los Angeles Times who brought finely honed investigative skills to his coverage of the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal, died early Wednesday at his home in Bethesda, Md. He was 80. Our condolences to his wife, journalist Barbara Matusow and the rest of his family. (photo credit AP) A Shining Moment for Comedians and Student JournalistsVisit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Keith Olbermann had on his program the "surviving" members of Monty Python this week. Olbermann said Terry Gilliam asked him about a statement Colin Powell made in 2007 about the "terror industrial complex," a phrase Powell used in an interview with GQ. Apparently the only reporter to ask Powell about those remarks were staffers at the Oklahoma Daily, OU's student paper. Score one for the little student guys. Neon Tommy Piece On Steven MikulanKevin Douglas Grant of Neon Tommy has written a piece about writer, editor and critic Steven Mikulan, who lost his job last week after 25 years at the LA Weekly: Until his firing last week, Mikulan was a longstanding employee of the Weekly who had covered some of the biggest criminal trials of the last 10 years in Los Angeles: Robert Blake. Phil Spector. Anthony Pellicano. Anand Jon. He had reached his 25-year milestone and gained high esteem from friends and colleagues as a "superior writer" in the tradition of Gay Talese, Norman Mailer, and Truman Capote. Neon Tommy is a USC publication staffed almost entirely by journalism students, and we can't imagine running this story about a highly respected, award-winning journalist losing his job filled them with hope for their future careers. It certainly doesn't make us optimistic about ours. Or yours. Have a nice day. Previously on FBLA: PreviouslyTerry McDermott Named CJR Encore Fellow An Appreciation of Brendan Mullen By Flea BREAKING: Brendan Mullen Suffers Stroke Vince Gonzales Got Drunk on the Job SoCal Connected Buys FBLA Brunch Alleged Letterman Blackmailer Colleague of Olbermann Nikki Finke is in The New Yorker Rainey: Lawyers and Kings and Yaroslasky - Oh My Whicker Defends Controversial Column Video: Walter Cronkite's Memorial When Entertainment Journalism Was A Respectable Profession... Beat Reporter's State Refund Check Bounces Statement From Laura Ling and Euna Lee PJ Tobia Posts the Rendon Group Report On Him Andrew Malcolm 'Throws FBLA a Bone' Andrew Malcolm Vs. Keith Olbermann 60 Minutes Creator Don Hewitt is Dead at 86 Matt Fleischer Joins True/Slant Jay Rosen on the Term "Blogger" Media Matters on Meeting the Press Jason Barnett from The Uptake Talks to FBLA AP Photographer Emilio Morenatti Loses Foot In Afghanistan Bomb Blast USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism Fellowships Announced San Diego Editor Fred Kinne Has Died Molly Hennessy-Fiske is a Good Person to Get Shot Around Journalism Grads Might Want To Learn A Trade Ling and Lee Arrive at Bob Hope International Statement From Families Of Freed US Journalists President Obama Sings Happy Birthday to Helen Thomas BREAKING: Two US Journos Pardoned by North Korea President Clinton: Soon-To-Be Patron Saint of Political Prisoner Journos LA Weekly Reporter Praised By Newsweek Don Lemon Tries To Be Positive About Palin Jon Stewart Takes on Brian Williams Bridget Kinsella Credits Cronkite for Her Joining Twitter NYT Front Page Article on Nikki Finke Breaking: Nikki Finke Story Maybe On Page One of NYT James Rainey is Terrified of Nikki Finke CyberFrequencies Interview With Nikki Finke Andrew Blankstein on Countdown...Again Roger Friedman Sues Murdoch for Wrongful Termination Steve Lopez to Other Columnists: 'Leave Your Desks' Andrew Blankstein on Countdown James Rainey vs Jill Stewart Redux Rainey vs Stewart vs Cooper vs Lacey Why is Glenn Beck Playing With Barbies? James Rainey vs Jill Stewart Continues Don't Call Fox Business Folks "Know-It-Alls" Support.com Reaches Out to Laid Off Journos The Enterprise Report Takes on Joel Grover Journalists Sentenced by North Korea - Ashton Kutcher on the Case OC Reporter Lowers the Bar for Journos Far and Wide Police Chief Bratton Says LA Weekly's McDonald is 'Smoking a Little Weed' Breaking: There is a Journalist Doing Well Enough to Hire an Assistant off Craigslist! Film Critic Asks Not to Be Named after Named Names Were Edited Out A Pirate's Life for Beck....Arrrgh Journos Mugshots: Bitter/Sweet Richard Rushfield is the Best Idol Stalker the LAT Has Ever Had El Paso Cop Arrests Local News Reporter at a Crash Scene FBLA Editor Self-Pimps LA Weekly Piece Paul Moyer Has Announced He Will Retire Stephen Colbert Takes On Glen Beck By Popular Demand: Danielle Saar's Reel Mayrav's Sister is Also an Adorable Journo Daniel Heimpel Pens an Awesome Journalistic Moment in LA Weekly Print Publications Payment Chart Of Shame Happy 75th Birthday Gloria Steinem! The Enterprise Report Has First Photos of Montana Plane Crash Pilot Outed Plagiarist, Heather Lee's Position is on MB Job Board Media Criticism Via Facebook Status Updates The Recruitment Song for Paul Krugman AOL to Launch a New Political Journalism Site "That Pays Writers a Living Wage" WaPo's Report on the White House Press Corps Lois Draegin is Now an Unpaid Intern at 55?! The Enterprise Report Launches Stalk All Your Favorite Journalists on Twitter! Glenn Beck Claims to be Scientific, Postulating that Arctic is Melting Because 'Heat Rises' Stephanopoulos Takes on Schwarzenegger LAT's Robyn Dixon Named Winner of Batten Medal Newspaper Escape Plan On Facebook Eric Boehlert Takes on Jonah Goldberg FBLA Exclusive Interview With Andrew Blankstein Douglas Frantz Gets Interviewed By NYT in the Presence of a Press Aide |
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