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Reel Journalism: “Nothing but the Truth”

Matt Dornic — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:16:24 +0000

Pictured from left are Nick Clooney, Floyd Abrams, and John Watson.
(Photo credit: Jeff Watts, American University)

“Nothing But the Truth,” a 2008 feature film inspired by the experiences of New York Times reporter Judith Miller during the Valerie Plame-CIA leak scandal, was the first film screened for the 2009-2010 Reel Journalism Film Series-presented by American University’s School of Communication and the Newseum, Monday night at AU’s Greenberg Theatre.

The film boasts an ensemble cast including Kate Beckinsale, Alan Alda, Matt Dillon, Vera Farmiga, Angela Bassett, Noah Wyle, and David Schwimmer. Even though it addresses a timely topic and received rave reviews at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival, Nothing But the Truth never received a theatrical release because its distributor filed for bankruptcy.

“There may be more people in this room about to see the movie than have seen it in this country,” joked Floyd Abrams, the preeminent constitutional law expert who argued for the New York Times and Miller in the Plame CIA leak grand jury investigation.

Abrams was a technical adviser for the film and also had a cameo role as the judge who sends a journalist (Beckinsale) to jail when she refuses to reveal her sources to a special prosecutor (Dillon). Abrams, along with First Amendment expert and AU professor John Watson, were the panelists discussing the film before the screening with host Nick Clooney.

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Morning Reading List, 01.30.09

Patrick — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:41:03 +0000

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Morning Reading List, 11.12.08

Patrick — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:22:17 +0000

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Morning Reading List, 08.08.08

Patrick — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:21:43 +0000

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Morning Reading List, 07.25.08

Patrick — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 09:46:28 +0000

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Morning Reading List, 03.05.08

Patrick — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 21:14:09 +0000

Good morning Washington.

Quickly navigate Morning Reading List:

Visiting the Newseum at some point is on most of your to-do lists.

REVOLVING DOOR

FishbowlLA’s Tiny Dupuy makes a visit to D.C..

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NEWSPAPERS

Reuters reports, “Lawyers who represented book publisher Judith Regan in a $100 million lawsuit against News Corp sued her on Monday, saying she did not reimburse them for fees and cut them out of her settlement payment.”

“Hillary Clinton’s complaints about a pro-Barack Obama media tilt helped prompt examinations of Obama’s record and catapulted him to a first-place finish in the competition for media exposure the week of Feb. 25-March 2, according to a Project for Excellence study of campaign coverage.”

Crain’s New York reports, “Under a new Wall Street Journal policy revealed to staffers last week, authors such as Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden — whose series of articles on the college admissions process led to his critically-acclaimed book, The Price of Admission — would have to fork over some of their book proceeds to none other than Rupert Murdoch himself.”

War and Peace offers reaction to The Washington Post’s piece titled “We Scream, We Swoon. How Dumb Can We Get?”

SABEW announced, “Floyd Norris, The New York Times’s chief financial correspondent, will receive the 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) at its 45th annual conference in Baltimore, Md., on April 28.”

His Extreme-ness shares “a couple of fascinating tidbits from the Post’s preview of the Newseum grand opening”

“Politico’s tussle with Obama campaign shines light on how sausage gets made.”

Dana Milbank writes, “It took many months and the mockery of ‘Saturday Night Live’ to make it happen, but the lumbering beast that is the press corps finally roused itself from its slumber Monday and greeted Barack Obama with a menacing growl. The day before primaries in Ohio and Texas that could effectively seal the Democratic presidential nomination for him, a smiling Obama strode out to a news conference at a veterans facility here. But the grin was quickly replaced by the surprised look of a man bitten by his own dog. Reporters from the Associated Press and Reuters went after him for his false denial that a campaign aide had held a secret meeting with Canadian officials over Obama’s trade policy. A trio of Chicago reporters pummeled him with questions about the corruption trial this week of a friend and supporter. The New York Post piled on with a question about him losing the Jewish vote.”

New York Daily News reports, “Angry Barack Obama bombarded by media”

Rush and Malloy write, “Power lawyer Robert Bennett got to be one of Washington’s top litigators by knowing how to keep his cool. But the highly paid scandal-fixer barely conceals his rage toward some people in his new memoir, ‘In the Ring.’ Bennett heaps scorn on New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. in the chapter in which he recalls his defense of Times reporter Judith Miller, who went to jail rather than reveal her sources in reporting on CIA operative Valerie Plame.”

Slate’s Jack Shafer asks, “As a leading indicator of the newspaper biz’s health, what does the chain’s bad news portend for the rest of the industry?”

Washington Times’s Joseph Curl reports, McCain skewers pork for press.

The New York Sun reports, “It’s not every day that one finds a tax policy argument in the world-famous gossip column of the New York Post, but there it was yesterday in ‘Page Six’: The news was that the publisher of the New York Times, Arthur Sulzberger Jr., had sold his Upper West Side apartment to his wife for $3.25 million for what a Times spokeswoman described as ‘estate-planning purposes.’”

Slate’s Jack Shafer asks, “As a leading indicator of the newspaper biz’s health, what does the chain’s bad news portend for the rest of the industry?”

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A NBC release announced, “According to Nielsen Media Research data, ‘NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams’ won the February 2008 sweep in total viewers and homes. For the sweep, ‘Nightly News’ averaged 9.532 million total viewers.” Also, NBC announced, “According to Nielsen Media Research data, ‘NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams’ was the most-watched network evening newscast, winning the week of February 25, 2008. The Williams-led newscast averaged 9.171 million total viewers”

An ABC release announced, “For the just-completed February Sweep, ABC’s ‘World News with Charles Gibson’ was the #1 evening newscast among Adults 25-54, averaging a 2.4/9 and 2.96 million. This marks the second consecutive February Sweep that ‘World News’ has placed first among key demo viewers. It is also the fourth time in five sweeps periods the ABC broadcast has won among Adults 25-54. Among Total Viewers, ‘World News’ averaged 9.28 million.”

Crain’s New York reports, “For the past few months, people across the United States have taken part in a closely fought contest, full of twists and turns, that has finally produced an unexpected winner. That’s right: There’s a new front-runner in the cable news race. Buoyed by a historic Democratic primary season that has drawn new votersâ€”and new viewers — CNN’s prime-time audience of 25- to 54-year-olds soared 150% in February over year-earlier levels. The boost gave the Time Warner-owned channel its first victory over the Fox News Channel in six years.”

We hear NewsChannel 8 would not air last week’s Q&A Cafe interview with NBC 4′s meteorologist Bob Ryan, because they consider him the competition. The program will, however, air on DC Cable/TV 16 this Friday, because they don’t think of him as competition. The full interview is now available on YouTube.

Bloomberg reports, “A federal regulator today called for an investigation into why an Alabama television station lost its signal as the CBS News program ’60 Minutes’ aired a segment questioning the jailing of a former Democratic governor.”

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ONLINE MEDIA

Forbes.com reports, “The value of merger and acquisition deals in the U.S. media industry could reach record levels in 2008 if pending mega deals like Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo! are completed, PriceWaterhouseCoopers said in a report released Monday.”

E&P reports, “Earlier this month, Kiyoshi Martinez started an experimental website that gives journalists a chance to vent their feelings about their profession and their work lives. And have they ever. AngryJournalist.com is a simple yet powerful concept: a gripe board where journalists are asked to say what’s making them angry today. It’s the modern-day equivalent of the anonymous suggestion box in the company lunchroom. All posts to the site are anonymous. Everything submitted goes through Martinez, who screens out trolls and spammers and non-relevant stuff.”

The Horses Mouth reports, “Most Media Observers Side With Hillary Campaign Claim That Press Has Been Harder On Her”

“Yeas & Nays has learned that the Center for American Progress’ Grant Ginder was recently ghost-writing for gossip Web site TMZ.com.”

NPR’s On The Media reports, “Campaign correspondents tread a narrow path between political analysis and outright prognostication. Once quick to predict the future (Google these words: wrong about New Hampshire), are reporters now more circumspect? And is all coverage created equal? New York Magazine’s John Heilemann weighs in.”

Mark Glaser asks, “I struggle nearly every week with an identity problem: Am I a blogger or a journalist? Most times, I can take the easy way out and think of myself as the nouveau blogger/journalist or journalist/blogger — but which one comes first? nags my inner pigeon-holer.”

The Weekly Standard asks, “Who Lost James Fallows?” And, “It was sort of stunning to listen to, and the response from the Defense official was not unlike Tony Snow’s famous quip to Helen Thomas, ‘Well, thank you for the Hezbollah view.’ Whatever angst the left once had about these calls, they can rest assured that the propaganda isn’t going from the Pentagon to the bloggers, but vice versa.”

Hot Air.com reports, “It’s only the first day of the Tony Rezko trial, testimony has yet to be heard, and already the press has gotten to Barack Obama. Faced with a new focus on his ties to the defendant in a corruption case and exposed missteps in his NAFTA dance, Obama stalked out of a press conference with questions ringing in his ears”

MSNBC’s First Read reports, “Obama Tangles with the Press”

Politico’s Chris Frates reports, “The oh-so-unhip world of business trade associations took a small shot at edginess Monday when nearly a dozen groups launched the blog BizCentral.org, aimed at Washington’s influencers.”

CQ Politics reports, “Mike McConnell’s Temporary Spokesman Has a Full-Time Job”

Portfolio reports, “Digging Digg’s Grave? Changes to the popular content-ranking website threaten to alienate its most dedicated users.”

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MAGAZINES

MinOnline reports, “This Friday (March 7), ‘USA Today’ Gives Readers ‘Openair.’”

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BOOKS

A release announced, “Oxford University economist Paul Collier has won the 2008 Lionel Gelber Prize for his book The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It (Oxford University Press), Judith Gelber, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize Board”

The father and son team of Lou and Carl Cannon wrote Reagan’s Disciple: George W. Bush’s Troubled Quest for a Presidential Legacy. Check out the New York Times review here.

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WEST WING REPORTAGE

Playbook reports, “ABC’s Ann Compton, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, shows both experience and judgment in announcing the menu for this year’s dinner, which features a rejuvenated and expanded scholarship program: spiced tenderloin, followed by white chocolate drowning in raspberries.”

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JOBS

National Geographic News is looking for a Copy Editor.

SIGNAL Magazine is looking for a Managing Editor.

The Roanoke Times is looking for a Healthcare Reporter.

Philip Merrill College of Journalism is looking for an Abell Professor in Baltimore Journalism, a Knight Visiting Professor in Digital Innovation and a Shirley Povich Chair in Sports Journalism.

Alliance for School Choice is looking for a Grant Writer for Major DC Nonprofit, Education Reform.

Sidwell Friends School is looking for a Director of Publications.

Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC is seeking experienced reporter.

The Daily Press is looking for a Features reporter and an Education Reporter.

The Seattle Times is looking for a Washington, D.C. reporter.

PBS is seeking talented candidates for the position of Digital Producer.

Arcom Publishing, Inc. is looking for an Ad Layout Coordinator.

Patuxent Publishing Co. is looking for a General Assignment Reporter.

American Architectural Foundation is looking for a Communications Manager.

The World Bank is looking for someone in Communications/Public Affairs.

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Miller: Spotted!

Patrick — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:42:33 +0000

That was Judith Miller covering a Homeland Security hearing on the Senate side Monday. She’s working on a piece for City Journal. Naturally, she wore her sunglasses inside and made sure to re-apply some lipstick during the hearing.

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Morning Reading List, 10.26.07

Patrick — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:39:47 +0000

Good morning Washington.

You guys are old school. You have a landline at home.

An NBC release announced, “According to Nielsen Media Research data, ‘Meet the Press with Tim Russert’ was the No. 1 Sunday morning public affairs program, winning the week ending Sunday, October 21 in all categories across the nation and in Washington, D.C.”

Comcast announced, “John Conwell Named Regional Vice President of Government Affairs for Comcast’s Potomac Region.” Also, David Lucoff is the new regional vice president of sales and marketing for its Potomac Region covering parts of MD, DC and VA.

New York Times reports, “In the summer of 2006, as Israeli and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon were clashing, Bob Woodruff desperately wished to fly there to report for ABC News. Never mind that it had been less than six months since a roadside explosion in Iraq pocked his brain with shrapnel and other debris, almost killing him.”

“FEMA Meets the Press, Which Happens to Be . . . FEMA”

“FCC’s Copps Calls for News Corp.-Wall Street Journal Inquiry”

“FNC Demands McCain Pull Ad”

“Swezey makes all-time money list on ‘Jeopardy!’”

“Mainstream Blogs Open Floodgates for Political Coverage”

“Swelling Portfolio: Mag’s Ads Are Gaining While Editorial Is Waning”

Tom DeFrank looks back on the Nixon years.

Forbes reports, “Dow Jones changed hands faster than anyone might have imagined. Could The New York Times be next on the takeover list? Forbes editor Matt Miller asked the four investors on the private equity panel at Forbes 2nd annual MEET conference whether they felt that The New York Times Co. was ripe for a takeover. Three out of four said yes.”

Washington Post’s Rob Pegoraro reports, “Now many Comcast customers are anxious after reading the Associated Press report last week that the cable-modem service interferes with the BitTorrent file-sharing program. The news has put the Philadelphia-based corporation in an awkward spot and brought the network neutrality debate back to life, just when it seemed that the issue was dead in Washington.”

New York Daily News reports, “Whether or not Howard Stern is the king of all media, he’s definitely king of satellite radio. Arbitron has released its first-ever ratings for XM and Sirius, covering April-June 2007, and they show that in an average week, 1,225,000 listeners at some point heard Stern.”

Street Sense reports, “So our trusty intern reporter Melanie Lidman was out covering Mayor Fenty’s announcement of the closing of DC Village, a family emergency shelter, yesterday. The Washington Post reporter next to her had forgotten her camera. So Melanie, generous soul that she is, agreed to have her photographs used by the Post for its own story. The Post, however? Not so generous. There was no money in the budget to pay Melanie for the photo, she was told. So Melanie made the best call she could. As she put it, “Not getting paid for your freelance work: negative $50. Seeing your grandmother’s face when she opens the newspaper: priceless .”

Salon offers Sidney Blumenthal’s afterword for a reissue of Walter Lippman’s ‘Liberty and the News,’ to be published this month by Princeton University Press.

Wired reports, “Against market trends, Dzanc Books is a small publisher poised to succeed, hiring staff and expanding quickly. And that may be because it sprouted from a blog rather than a traditional printing press, and it is certainly web-savvy.”

Washington Post reports, “What Hollywood is calling ‘the Judith Miller movie’ is now filming on location here, but prepare yourselves: Some changes are being made to the story inspired by the outing of a CIA agent. For starters, in the movie Judith Miller is no longer Judith Miller of the New York Times, but Rachel Armstrong of the Washington Capital Sun. And while the real Judith Miller may be remembered as a stylish, slightly scary reporter of 59, headed off to jail in a quilted black jacket and tortoise-frame sunglasses, in the movie she is a sizzling Kate Beckinsale, 34, dressed in a, shall we say, form-fitting skirt.”

The Idaho Stateman reports, “Four months before his arrest in a men’s room sex sting, Sen. Larry Craig hired a criminal lawyer for advice on whether he could sue the Idaho Statesman over its investigation into longstanding rumors that he engaged in gay sex, a spokesman said Wednesday.”

E&P reports, “A press conference was held at 1:30 this afternoon at the Philadelphia Inquirer to announce that it has added former Sen. Rick Santorum to its stable of columnists.”

According to The Hollywood Reporter, “In a wide-ranging presentation Wednesday, Robert Iger said the best way to fight digital piracy is to go on the offensive and that big media companies are undervalued on Wall Street.”

The Associated Press reports, “Parents have become more ambivalent about the Internet, with a new study finding fewer of them considering it good for their children.”

Info World reports, “More than half of U.S. residents want the government to regulate Internet video in some way, according to a poll released Wednesday.”

Reuters reports, “Two U.S. senators on Wednesday threatened to introduce bipartisan legislation that would block the U.S. Federal Communication Commission from acting quickly to ease rules governing media ownership.”

Bloomberg reports, “Comcast Corp., the largest U.S. cable-television company, fell the most in five years in Nasdaq trading after adding fewer phone and Internet subscribers than analysts estimated amid a slump in home sales.”

The Hollywood Reporter reports, “Former entertainment mogul Barry Diller said Wednesday that when it comes to the disruptive power of the Internet, incumbent media companies still “don’t get it,” with the possible exception of News Corp.”

Fortune reports, “Merrill Lynch all but hung a ‘For Sale’ sign today on its 20 percent holding of Bloomberg LP, the financial information company.”

Smart Money reports, “Tribune Co. said it agreed to sell two Connecticut newspapers, the Greenwich Time and the Advocate of Stamford, to Hearst Corp. for $62.4 million. The sale, expected to close in the next few weeks, comes five months after the Chicago-based media company’s $73 million deal to sell the papers to Gannett Co. (GCI) was scrapped following an arbitrator’s ruling that the sale of the Advocate would have violated a union contract.”

“The Vanity Fair Oscar-night party, held at Mortons for the past 14 years, is changing its venue to Craft in Century City,” reports Variety.

The Guardian unveiled a new MediaGuardian website. “Breaking media news remains at the heart of what we do, as it has done for the seven years since the MediaGuardian website launched, on September 5 2000.”

Stars and Stripes reports, “Stars and Stripes served as a conduit for money to promote America Supports You, but the newspaper did not spend any of its own funds on the program, a Stripes official confirmed on Tuesday.”

PJNet reports, “Will Bunch, Philadelphia Daily News columnist, has been on a two-year journey to figure out the fate of journalism. At first it was out of self-preservation, but now he has come to see the future of journalism — and he is very optimistic.”

The Pew Weekly News Interest Index shows, “News about the dangers of an antibiotic-resistant staph infection (MRSA) caught the publicâ€™s attention last week. More than a quarter of Americans paid very close attention to this story and 18% listed it as the news story they followed most closely — placing it at the top of the weekly news interest index. Women were particularly interested in the story. The national news media covered the MRSA story, but overall coverage lagged behind public interest.”

Washingtonian reports, “The 150 most influential people in business, culture, real estate, religion, education, law, and more. Plusâ€”Washington’s hidden power, stars of tomorrow, and places where powerful people live, play, and eat.”

The Associated Press reports, “XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. said Thursday its third-quarter loss widened as sales through retail outlets slowed and the company faced increased costs related to its planned acquisition by smaller rival Sirius Satellite Radio Inc.”

Ad Age reports on, “The Nine Lives of Newspapers”

Jobs

Hanley Wood, LLC is looking for a Senior Marketing Manager.

InterMedia Survey Institute is looking for an Online Managing Editor.

Examiner Newspapers is looking for a Designer with eye for fashion.

SNL Financial, LC is looking for an Insurance News Reporter.

Congressional Quarterly is looking for a Schedules Researcher.

InterMedia Survey Institute is looking for an Online Managing Editor.

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Morning Reading List, 10.01.07

Patrick — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:50:41 +0000

Good morning Washington.

Who should play Obama in a movie? The Illinois senator says Denzel Washington.

Most of you have not even used a VHS in more than a year. Do you even own one anymore?

Happy belated birthday to Roll Call’s Emily Heil. Her birthday was Friday.

Regarding this, a reader writes in, “Makes me like Russert better!! And maybe he’ll gather some new lyrics to quote at the Radio/TV Correspondents’ dinner.”

Reuters reports, “Many executives attending the fourth annual Advertising Week conference admitted that they had misjudged exactly what consumers want these days. Figuring that out may be the advertising and media industry’s top challenge, they said.”

Wall Street Journal reports, “Democratic Federal Communications Commission member Michael Copps set a high bar Thursday for approval of three media mergers before the agency as he questioned whether the proposed deals were in the public interest.”

USA Today: “Return of 1999? Dot-coms making a comeback”

Wall Street Journal reports, “CBS Corp. thinks Web surfers would rather watch a blooper reel from the sitcom ‘How I Met Your Mother’ than an actual episode of the show. To cater to what it believes is the short attention span of online audiences, the network today is launching CBS EyeLab, a digital-production studio that will create and distribute short clips cut together from the network’s most popular shows.”

Business Week reports, “Fox vs. CNBC: Countdown To War
Fox Business: Network has the deep pockets and patience of News Corp. behind it. It’ll need them”

Multichannel.com reports, “Al Jazeera English chief Nigel Parsons says the network is stepping up efforts to gain U.S. cable or satellite TV distribution, and talks are going well with ‘one of the majors.’”

Poynter Online’s Thomas T. Huang writes, “The digital world can help the reader deepen his understanding of his own community — and build connections within that community. We need to take advantage of that.”

B&C reports, “Hearst-Argyle Television’s special committee appointed to consider the tender offer by Hearst said the offer is inadequate.”

Conde Nast Chairman S.I. Newhouse Jr. sat down Wednesday with Portfolio Editor-in-Chief Joanne Lipman to take a very serious look at every page in the upcoming November issue of Portfolio, his $100 million pet project.

Reuters reports, “The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission sued Bloomberg LP on Thursday, alleging the news service had discriminated against pregnant employees by cutting their pay and demoting them.”

On Thursday, CNN’s Candy Crowley conducted the first interview to take place on CNN’s Election Express. Crowley spoke to John Edwards in New Hampshire.

Information Week reports, “Managing mixed voltage interfaces between portable devices and memory cards”

Two years ago on September 29, Judith Miller was released from jail.

Gawker reports, “Newspapers Now Stuffed Full Of Blogs, But No Clue Where To Put Them”

DCist reports, “FOUND Magazine has a knack for revealing the beautiful underbelly of America, the forgotten parts of our everyday lives.”

A tipster tells us, “The NY Times mag piece about DC spelled Rep. Jane Harman’s name wrong.”

A reader writes in, “Regarding the NYT Mag article: Where’s Jenny 8. Lee when you need her?”

National Journal’s William Powers on You Tube: “Because, unlike newspapers and other traditional media, they are hip and popular. In contrast to the bottled quotes and factoids of traditional journalism, they seem unfiltered. And they draw Web traffic, which makes them valuable (clicks equal cash).”

Slate Gabfest Podcast now on XM Radio at 6pm Friday on channel 130 the POTUS 08 channel.

Poynter Online’s Peter Zollman writes, “Billions of dollars in revenue; now often considered the ‘bad guy’ even though its slogan is ‘Don’t be evil;’ stunning market share in search; worldwide growth; more initiatives underway than seemingly dozens of other companies…Amazing. And it isn’t even 10 years old. By contrast, eBay launched 12 years ago. Yahoo began as a student hobby in February 1994. So both are older, by far — at least in Internet terms.”

Feministing.com awarded Chris Matthews asking Sen. Chris Dodd: “Do you find it difficult to debate a woman?” the “Sexist (and stupid) quote of the day”

Potomac Flacks reports, “Jennifer Moire, previously head of media relations at C-SPAN, has launched Lyon Park Public Relations (www.lyonparkpr.com).”

Washington Post’s Deborah Howell examines the
Post coverage of the sad Sept. 17 killing of 14-year-old DeOnte Rawlings.

Wall Street Journal presents, “Read All About It! A veteran reporter and editor’s favorite books about newspapering.”

New York Times’ Public Editor writes, “Last Sunday’s column about the MoveOn.org advertisement prompted more than 350 messages from readers. The vast majority took issue with one aspect of the column or another.”

Jobs

The Center for American Progress is looking for an Editor, CampusProgress.org

World Wildlife Fund is looking for a Creative Services Writer.

Thomson Tax & Accounting is looking for a Reporter/Author — News Service.

National Geographic Society is looking for a Senior Photo Editor

Media General, Inc. is looking for a Senior Multimedia Producer

National Public Radio is looking for a Sr. Business Analyst, Deputy Managing Editor, News & Information and a Supervising Senior Producer, Weekend All Things Considered.

Publishing Services LLC is looking for a Marketing Editor.

Daily News-Record is looking for a Staff Writer.

The Daily Progress is looking for a News editor/copy desk chief.

The McGraw-Hill Companies is looking for a Correspondent.

The Magazine Group is looking for an Art Director.

Solutions at Home is looking for an Advertising Account Executive.

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National Geographic Society is looking for an Account Manager.

International Brotherhood of Teamsters are looking for a Staff Writer and a Project Manager.

Australian Broadcasting Corporation is looking for a Producer.

The Daily Press is looking for a Copy Editor.

PBS Newshour is looking for a Broadcast Desk Assistant.

The Advisory Board Company is looking for an entry level staff writer.

Inside Lacrosse is looking for a Copy Editor.

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Morning Reading List, 07.04.07

Patrick — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:00:22 +0000

Good morning Washington.

It seems we can’t all be as lucky as those Hotline kids.

“BBC Reporter Johnston Freed In Gaza”

An ABC release announced, “For the just-completed 2nd quarter (April 2-July 1), ‘World News with Charles Gibson’ was the #1 evening newscast among Total Viewers, Households and Adults 25-54. This marks ABC’s first across the board 2nd quarter win since 1996.”

A Media Research Center release announced, “This coming Saturday, July 7, NBC Universal will devote a record 75 hours of coverage to Al Gore’s ‘Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis,’ to raise awareness about the alleged global warming ‘crisis’ as defined by Gore. The coverage will air on seven NBC Universal-owned programs, and Today news anchor Ann Curry will host coverage during NBC’s primetime. The 75 hours of coverage constitutes unprecedented promotion of one side of a political issue, and the largest in-kind contribution to Al Gore should he decide to run for President in 2008.”

Would you spend over $2,000 to have lunch with Chris Matthews? More? Charityfolks.com’s auction ends tomorrow.

Gene Weingarten tries to break into the tough market of Peoria.

From the MRC: “Tune into C-SPAN 2 tomorrow, July 4th at 3:20 PM ET to watch the Media Research Center’s 20th Anniversary Gala in its entirety. Highlights of the gala, held this past March, include video of the DisHonors Award winners for the worst reporting of 2006.”

A reader writes in regarding this: “also on the spouces story, Dan Steinberg is married to Annys Shin.”

A Center for Public Integrity release announced, “The Center for Public Integrity on Tuesday released a license for the non-commercial use of its Media Tracker, a free online database at the heart of the Center’s ‘Well Connected’ project on media and telecommunications. This new license, featured on the Center’s Website, gives the public and organizations the freedom to copy, adapt and redistribute Media Tracker data at no charge.”

PC World reports, “It will be a while before the official numbers come in, but some Wall Street analysts say that Apple might have sold as many as 700,000 iPhones over the device’s opening weekend.”

The AP reports, “A school administrator who says he was ridiculed and harassed based on a bogus news story is suing. Lewiston School Superintendent Leon Levesque is seeking $75,000 in federal court in Portland to deter what his attorney Bernard J. Kubetz characterized as irresponsible reporting by Fox News Channel.”

Wonkette unveils a “new-ish” redesign.

“With the apparent demise of the immigration reform bill, a major Supreme Court decision on race, and a few natural disasters, last week was jammed with big news events. But nothing got the media’s attention like a couple of suspicious cars parked in London,” according to the PEJ News Coverage Index.

From a reader: “Turns out the Fizgerald probe landed only one person in jail — a journo, Judith Miller. Who’da thunk it?”

The New York Times reports, “A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by The New York Times against the Justice and Defense Departments, saying classified documents the newspaper was seeking under the Freedom of Information Act were properly withheld.”

His Extremeness brings us “Top Ten Funniest Political And Media Quotes of 2007.”

Jobs

National Journal is looking for a Fact Checker.

Fox is looking for a Supervising Producer and a Manager for Digital Media.

Newspaper Association of America is looking for a Technology Writer.

The Middle East Institute is looking for a Media and Outreach Assistant.

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Morning Reading List, 06.01.07

Patrick — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:36:03 +0000

Good morning Washington.

You think tanning is not so much sexy, but cancer causing.

The Association of Health Care Journalists launched a new website.

Check out Norah O’Donnell on the forthcoming cover of Pregnancy magazine.

“NPR Joins Appeal of Online Music Royalties”

A reader tell us, “please note that the white house transcript referred to ‘Mr. Thomas.’ did helen get a sex change?”

“CNN.com’s Beta Site Is Online”

“SPECIAL REPORT: As Cuts Trim News Pages and Newsrooms — What Gets Lost?”

We hear that hardly any Politico’ers went to their own party at Lounge 201 Wednesday night.

This year’s BookExpo speech by Alan Greenspan “is off-limits to recording devices. Instead, the Maestro will speak directly to booksellers and publishing types — aided by an onstage Q&A conducted by his wife, NBC newswoman Andrea Mitchell.”

>”The Kaiser Media Fellowships in Health”

A CNN release announced that for the network’s New Hampshire debates the first hour will have the “candidates address questions from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, WMUR-TV political director Scott Spradling and New Hampshire Union Leader State House bureau chief Tom Fahey. In the second hour, candidates move from behind their lecterns to the front of the stage to field queries directly from an audience of more than 100 undecided registered voters.”

Are there no more standards in journalism?

Cox Newspapers reports, “While President Bush is in Europe next week for G8 meetings and several other stops, Press Secretary Tony Snow will remain stateside to talk to conservatives about the immigration bill backed by the president. Snow said his exact schedule remains a work in progress, but he will head out from Washington to speak at several events and on radio shows around the country.”

Luxury mags: So hot right now.

“The editors of Poynter Online have asked the Tidbits team to publish a series of posts exploring each of the winning projects and ideas” from the Knight News Challenge. “We’ll focus on what’s journalistically new or different about each project, how the grantees are getting started, why they think they were selected, likely opportunities and pitfalls — and questions that the grantees have for you, Tidbits readers!”

Eric Boehlert writes, “Isn’t former New York Times reporter Jeff Gerth writing the definitive book about Hillary Clinton sort of like Judith Miller deciding to write the definitive book about Iraq’s WMDs? It just doesn’t add up.”

“Gilmore Girl Lauren Graham graces the cover of Capitol File this season and confesses that she was thisclose to beating everyone’s favorite Hardballer on ‘Celebrity Jeopardy’ of all things. ‘I almost beat Chris Matthews on ‘Celebrity Jeopardy.’ He took me in the end, but I came close. He got me on opera; he knows everything about opera.’”

Book TV on C-SPAN2 announced today live coverage of BookExpo America starting at 8 a.m. ET on Saturday. C-SPAN also announced plans to air two, live “Road to the White House” events from Des Moines, Iowa starting today at 3:30 pm with an hour-long town hall with Sen. John McCain and employees at the Des Moines-based Nationwide Insurance Company.

The Bivings Report’s Steve Petersen has the details on Wednesday night’s journalism workshop at the Cleveland Park Library where “Nationally known writer and photographer Bill Adler and former MSNBC chief Washington correspondent turned freelance multimedia journalist Brock Meeks pitched the citizen driven hyper local news site NowPublic to attendees.”

A reader writes, “The pole-vaulter story ran the day after a holiday. The only surprise is that anybody would be surprised that the bar is lower for A1 stories the day-after a slow news day.”

PRWeek reports, “FAIR faces proposition of critiquing mainstream media, while also seeking coverage in such outlets.”

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Journos Heading To Court

Patrick — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 15:30:53 +0000

From “In CIA leak case, reporters will be key witnesses“:

Prosecutors want to show that Libby lied to investigators about his conversations with journalists regarding outed CIA officer Valerie Plame, and they are expected to rely on former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and NBC Washington bureau chief Tim Russert to make their case.

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