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Jim Wright is 87 today. Paul Wolfowitz is 65. Diane Sawyer is 63. Glen Weldon, John Anthony, Craig Brownstein, Kenny Day and Alex Johnson knew that Friday's picture was of S Street NW. Washington City Paper awards The Washington Times a spot in the "Manliest Workplace in D.C. Competition." Check out today's White House Photo of the Day from Time. Today's "Angry Journalist" rant of the day: "I'm angry because after 20 years in journalism I'm begging my former interns for job leads."
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A release announced, "The Atlantic has named two new Integrated Account Managers—Detroit-based Stephanie Clement and New York-based Suzanne Grossman. Publisher Jay Lauf made the announcement, the latest in a series of additions to The Atlantic's integrated national sales and marketing team since Lauf joined the title in April."
We hear Solomon sent this email to staff last week: "A remarkable day in which the Washington Times dominated radio and TV coverage and drew its largest single-day Web audience on record. As of 11:50pm tonight, we had 1.2 million page views from more than 350,000 new unique visitors. We are on pace in December to break 15 million page views in a month for the first time."
A release announced, "Nielsen continues to track the readiness status of the U.S. and local markets, as we get closer to February 17, 2009. Nielsen's readiness data are based on sets and households in our National People Meter panel, which can be projected to U.S. television households, and our local metered panels, which can be projected to their respective television household populations." Check out more here.
TPM Josh Marshallwrites, "MSNBC is announcing that Chuck Todd has just been appointed chief White House correspondent for NBC News. I must say I did not expect that. And it seems like an odd choice. Not a bad choice, but not at all what I would have expected from them."
DCist reports, "NBC 4's Jim Vance, one of Washington's more beloved newsmen, now has a new feather in his cap: a mention on FAILBlog."
Gawker presents, "Our Ten Favorite Videos of 2008"
TechCrunch warns, "PR firms are out of control. Today we are taking a radical step towards fighting the chaos. From this point on we will break every embargo we agree to"
DCist announced, "In case you missed it, we opened the 2009 DCist Exposed Photography Show for entries a couple weeks ago. We've been enjoying seeing our Flickr pool fill up with potential winners. If you'd like to enter, please read our rules, then fill out our brief application and submit the $5 fee. After that, pick your three favorite photos that show us the vibrancy and cultural uniqueness of Washington, D.C. and throw them in the pool by midnight on January 7. If you have any questions regarding your submissions, check our Flickr discussion board first, and go ahead and ask if it hasn't already been answered."
PRNewser reports, "Westwind Comm. President: Reporters Should Ask PR for Job Help"
GalleyCat reports, "Two television reporters just signed a deal to write about the time they spent embedded with the Sarah Palin campaign during the 2008 election. Television journalists Scott F. Conroy (CBS News) and Shushannah Walshe (Fox) just signed on to write a book tentatively entitled, Sarah from Alaska for PublicAffairs."
B&C reports, "Report: Iraq Deadliest Beat For Journalists"
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