Morning Reading List, 11.13.07

Good morning Washington. You think The Washington Post's reaction to Tim Page was too harsh. "Mitt Romney Loses Coveted Endless Simmer Endorsement" Is that CBS's Matthew Felling hosting the Kojo Nnamdi Show today? Get ready for tomorrow's Meet the Press party...and Rush Limbaugh?!? New York Times presents, "Stray Questions for: P.J. O'Rourke" New York Post reports, "Jack Ford, the son of the late President Gerald Ford, is teaming up with magazine entrepreneur Don Welsh to launch a new publishing company, Mountain Time Publishing." Los Angeles Times reports, "Presidents and candidates have graced the covers of men's style mags going back to John F. Kennedy, who posed in the Oval Office for the March 1962 issue of GQ. ... For men, these magazines offer an opportunity to shape their images. ... So why is a women's fashion magazine a minefield for Hillary Clinton? It's a double standard to be sure. A male candidate appearing in a men's magazine is getting his message out. A female candidate appearing in a women's magazine is falling into a stereotype and opening herself up to criticism for caring more about her looks than the issues." Reuters reports, "Investors punished shares of the Walt Disney Co and other large media companies on Friday after U.S. consumer sentiment hit a two-year low and sparked worries about cuts in advertising, analysts said." AP reports, "AOL, a subsidiary of Time Warner Inc. said Monday it purchased Yedda Inc., a social search question and answer service." Tech Check reports, "Marc Andreessen Warns 'Old Media' Over Writers' Strike" "Mel Karmazin, chief executive officer of Sirius Satellite Radio, met with the Tribune editorial board Wednesday to discuss the proposed merger of Sirius with XM Satellite Radio, shock jock Howard Stern and the intense competition in media markets." Check it out here. "Andrew Sullivan speaks candidly" to Jennie Rothenberg Gritz "about why he supports Barack Obama, how he became a blogger, and why he's not afraid to change his mind." Ad Age reports, "Peggy Northrop is leaving her post as editor in chief at More magazine to become editor in chief of Reader's Digest" Washington Times reports, "Hollywood producer Joel Surnow dismissed as 'nuts' the notion that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton can be elected president and said he and other conservatives in the entertainment industry are leaning toward supporting Republican Rudolph W. Giuliani's presidential campaign." Redding News Review won its first "Black Web Award." Congrats! The PEJ Talk Show Index for the week of Oct. 28-Nov. 2, 2007 shows, "Thanks in part to the Democrats' spirited debate in Philadelphia, last week was the biggest week of the year for the presidential campaign in the universe of radio and cable talk shows. The main course was the Democratic front runner who got carved up by hosts and pundits of various political stripes." The Independent reports, "The editor of 'Time' magazine, Richard Stengel, tells Ian Burrell why even his publication can't afford to stand still if it wants to compete in an increasingly hi-tech industry." Journalism.co.uk reports, "Ifra will launch a vertical search engine for the newspaper industry in January, its CEO claimed." AP reports, "The first lead story on MinnPost.com, a new daily news site, is a 1,400-word report on the Minnesota Democratic Party's finances. It's not the kind of flashy tidbit guaranteed to goose online traffic. But flash isn't the idea at MinnPost, a venture staffed mostly by recent casualties of newspaper downsizing." Internet News reports, "A few years ago, it might have seemed far-fetched to imagine representatives from traditional media stalwarts like The New York Times and MTV Networks urging others to follow their lead in adapting to survive an evolving online environment. But the times, they are a-changing." Check out Nick Sweezey's contestant interview from Jeopardy! Reason's Marty Beckerman interviews Matt Taibbi, "Rolling Stone's controversial chief political reporter on Campaign 2008, following Hunter S. Thompson, and his new book." WTTG launched a new Web site. Check it out here. CNN reports, "The man who revealed that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA said that he was 'extraordinarily foolish' to leak her name. Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was a source of the CIA leak to columnist Robert Novak. Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview broadcast Sunday that he did not realize Plame was a covert agent when he discussed her with syndicated columnist Robert Novak." The Boston Globe reports, "As the television writers' strike slowly gnaws its way through the TV grid, the question arises: What else is there to watch? Doesn't Al Gore have some kind of television channel, among his many worthy pursuits? Maybe nobody there's on strike." The New Republic's Michael Crowley writes about, "Clinton's strategy for crushing the media." Randy Bennett, Vice President of Audience and New Business Development for the Newspaper Association of America writes about the new Imagining the Future of Newspapers Blog. "We asked 22 of some of the more insightful thinkers we know to provide their perspectives on how newspapers can shape their own future. Some are currently employed by newspapers, but most are outside observers (analysts, futurists, academics, customers, etc.) without a vested interest in the success or failure of new business or journalistic approaches. There were no restrictions. All were free to write on any aspect of the newspaper business and offer up positive or negative prognoses. The goal: stimulate ideas and discussions about the newspaper franchise 5-10 years from now. We will be posting several commentaries a day (to give you time to digest) over the next week." The New York Times' Public Editor writes, "Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who covers the White House for The Times, gets a steady stream of complaints from readers about a curious issue. These readers, like Susan Lonsinger of Bakersfield, Calif., object to the fact that The Times refers to President Bush as Mr. Bush on second and later references in news articles. They think that's disrespectful and that he should always be called President Bush." Deborah Howell writes, "A new president will be elected a year from now. Voters will look to the mainstream media, to alternative bloggers and to the candidates' Web sites to help decide who that president will be. A perennial complaint is that the media cover politics too much as a horse race instead of reporting more on the candidates' backgrounds, where they stand on issues and how they would lead the nation. But is it true? I intend to find out -- at least at The Post -- and report back to readers." The Columbia Tribune reports, "Consider the name: Pulitzer. Joseph Pulitzer and the prize named after him enjoy recognition and respect, especially in this town, home to the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism. But how many people, including working journalists, know and appreciate the rich stories -- both human and historical -- behind those coveted gold medals? As it turns out, not very many, said Roy Harris Jr. -- the author of 'Pulitzer's Gold' -- whose book fills a huge gap of knowledge about the coveted Public Service awards given for coverage of some of the biggest stories of the past 90 years, including the Ponzi scheme, the Great Depression, civil rights, Watergate, the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and Hurricane Katrina." "FBNY discusses Slovenia, the age gap in comedy, the profitability of print media and a few other things" with The Onion's Scott Dikkers. CNN.com reports, "So, what exactly is news in a virtual world? CNN has opened an I-Report hub in the virtual world of Second Life. CNN aims to find out by opening an I-Report hub in Second Life, a three-dimensional virtual world created entirely by its residents." The New York Times reports, "The Federal Communications Commission is preparing to impose significant new regulations to open the cable television market to independent programmers and rival video services after determining that cable companies have become too dominant in the industry, senior commission officials said." Jobs Home Front Communications is looking for a Media Specialist. WTOP Radio is looking for a Writer. New Media AE is looking for DBC Public Relations Experts. The Atlantic Media Company is looking for a Staff Correspondent to cover the White House for National Journal. Home Front Communications is seeking Detail-Oriented Web Project Manager. WUSA9 is looking for a Producer and an Executive Producer. Hat Tips: DCRTV, TVNewser, IWantMedia, Romenesko, MediaBistro, JournalismJobs, JournalismNext

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