A flurry of activity at the Newseum yesterday in preparation for today’s big event. 

We told you last week that Google and Politico were teaming up for a midterm election preview today at the Newseum.  Big names from politics and media are slated to appear at the afternoon event hosted by WaPo‘s Jonathan Capehart that kicks off with Mike Allen and David Axelrod at 2.30 PM and wraps up with cocktails at 5.30 PM.  For those who can’t make it to the Newseum, you can submit questions for the panelists here and watch the event live on YouTube and Politico.   Today’s schedule below:

2:30PM- Mike Allen interviews David Axelrod

3:30PM- Ed Gillespie (whose 3rd party group is a leading player in GOP election efforts)

4:30PM- Arianna Huffington will host a panel with Amy Walter, ABC News Political Director, Nate Silver, NYT, Steve Hayes, Weekly Standard, and GOP strategist Becki Donatelli

5:25PM- Mike Allen gives a 5 minute election wrap-up 

* In addition, there will be several short presentations of  2010 innovators in politics and media including Washington’s own Googler Ginny Hunt.

On Monday, Google and Politico are teaming up for a midterm election preview.  The cast of characters is worth a look.

Who:  David Axelrod (senior adviser to President Obama), Ed Gillespie (GOP strategist), Mike Allen (Politico), Arianna Huffington (HuffPost), Jonathan Capehart (WaPo), Stephen Hayes (The Weekly Standard), Nate Silver (NYT), Amy Walter (ABC), and Becki Donatelli (Founder of Campaign Solutions; more importantly, she was the first person to raise money on the Internet for a campaign).

When: Monday, September 27th, 2010
3:00 – 5:30pm
Followed by cocktails

Where: Newseum

Not invited? Watch the event live on YouTube or Politico.

There were more than plenty DC journos on hand last night at the St. Regis Hotel to see David Axelrod introduce David Brooks as The Week‘s Columnist of the Year Award. The dinner was emceed by The Week‘s Washington editor-at-large Margaret Carlson and Axelrod was the guest speaker. “You’re what the future could be, don’t screw up,” Axelrod joked with the crowd on the future of journalism.

His intro to Brooks included ancedotes about their “parallel lives,” both having attended the University of Chicago and starting out as reporters in the Windy City. “I did want to be David Axelrod. I followed his career every step of the way. The one thing I haven’t done is elected somebody president. Senator Lindsay Graham?” Brooks joked to the politician in the crowd.

More funny lines from Brooks: “I used to have all sorts of human drives, the need for food, for water, for sex. Now I have one drive… the need for column ideas.”

Other honorees of the sixth annual Opinion Awards included Editorial Cartoonist of the Year The Atlantic Journal-Constitution’s Mark Luckovich and Blogger of the Year fivethirtyeight.com’s Nate Silver.

A panel discussion “Will There Ever Be a New Politics?” followed, which included Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), WaPo’s Eugene Robinson (who was applauded for his recently awarded Pulitzer) and MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough. After some back-and-forth moderated by The Week‘s editor-at-large Sir Harold Evans, Scarborough’s Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinksi worked the crowd for a Q&A that included queries from Slate’s John Dickerson, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews and WaPo‘s Jonathan Capehart.

Attendees included: Tammy Haddad, Ben Bradlee, Sally Quinn, Andrea Mitchell, Len Downie, Mike Allen, Matt Cooper, Ana Marie Cox, Savannah Guthrie, Mark Whitaker, Jonathan Martin, David Shuster, Steve Clemons, Betsy Fischer, Maureen Orth, Lynn Sweet, Tina Brown, Tucker Carlson and others.

Also: Rep. Jane Harman, Rep. Ed Markey, Sen. Ben Nelson, Rep. John Dingell and Debbie Dingell and Walter Isaacson, among others.

Above is the cover of the program distributed last night. We have a few photos after the jump and more to come…

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Its day 80 covering the Obama administration and week ten for us. What we know and what we’re reading this Thursday morning…

NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE | NEWS NOTES | FBDC’S PICK | JOBS

NEWSPAPERS

Why the Boston Globe is on deathwatch: With a weekday circulation of about 350,000, the Globe is reported to be on track to lost $85 million in 2009. A high proportion of Boston’s residents are college students, who tend not to read newspapers, and a high proportion of its businesses are financial institutions, which, of course, have gotten hammered over the past two years.

More on Boston Globe from NYT: Perhaps most controversial, the Times wants to do away with lifetime job guarantees for Globe employees who were on board when the Taylor family sold the paper to the Times in 1993. “How long and how hard we negotiate is based on your feedback tonight,” union president Daniel Totten told Guild members at a Wednesday meeting.

TV

It takes a real TV anchorman to cry. The NY Observer’s Felix Gillette writes about this trend in the cover story for yesterday’s paper. “Not long ago, television news was a no-cry zone,” he writes. “The top newsmen were celebrated for their emotional control in the face of gut-punching developments.” Gillette notes Glenn Beck‘s “We Surround Them” special, Roland Martin‘s tears after President Obama’s election, Rick Santelli‘s rant, Chris Matthews‘ “thrill” and Anderson Cooper‘s Katrina reports as just some of the examples of a changing cable news style.

I’ve heard of drunk dialing, but drunk online shopping? MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow buys a TV.

ONLINE

WSJ is planning to launch a “premium iniative” to sell “narrower information services” at a higher subscription rate to subsets of its readership.

Tucker Carlson joined the gang on the Morning Media Menu yesterday. Topics du jour: bailouts (“I don’t think anybody has a right to a federally subsidized job. I certainly didn’t. I bounced around over the past 20 years in journalism and the taxpayers have never stepped in to save my job.”), ratings sensation Glenn Beck (“If you’re doing those numbers at 5:00, you’re doing something remarkable.”) and coverage of President Obama’s Europe trip (“fawning and childish”).

Is Yahoo a better friend to news than Google?

NEWS NOTES

Baltimore Sun sat down with predictions guru and fivethirtyeight.com founder Nate Silver: “People like Chuck Todd at NBC are pretty good. But I don’t think the election coverage is all that strong necessarily, in part because people have very short memories… In politics, you may have Capitol Hill correspondents who are thrown on the election trail every four years and maybe don’t have expertise in that area. It’s kind of like Olympic coverage. Where do you find a good curling analyst, you know?”

FBDC’S PICK

More on beat-sweetener’s from Slate: “At a time when readers are abandoning newspapers and magazines in droves, it hardly behooves reporters to bore them” with pieces designed to suck up to government officials, says Tim Noah. “What’s the value of access if you have no public to share it with?”

HAT TIPS: Mediabistro, Romenesko

JOBS after the jump…

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We’ve got your morning mix of media Muesli after the jump…

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