Morning Reading List, 03.13.08

Good morning Washington. It's Donald Duck's birthday! Quickly navigate Morning Reading List: REVOLVING DOOR | NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE MEDIA | MAGAZINES | JOBS Most of you do not know someone who has hired a prostitute before. REVOLVING DOOR The Chicago Tribune reports, "Lee Abrams, who is credited with inventing FM radio's album rock format and with giving Howard Stern and Steve Dahl their first major market jobs, has left XM Satellite Radio to become Chief Innovation Officer for Chicago-based Tribune Co., it was announced today." Neil Adler has left the Washington Business Journal to start up a new media public relations firm with his brother and a friend. His new company is D*MN Good LLC, a creative agency in D.C. The Washington Times has made some internal moves. Maria Stainer is moving from Features to become the new Assistant Managing Editor for Continuous News. Danny Wattenberg is replacing Stainer as Assistant Managing Editor for Features. Top of post NEWSPAPERS Ralph E. Hanson reports, "Former USA Today reporter and current WVU journalism professor Toni Locy has won a temporary reprieve from thousands of dollars of fines being levied against her for refusing to identify the sources who spoke to her about former Army scientist Steven Hatfill. According to USA Today, a three-judge federal appeals court blocked the lower court's fines as Locy pursues an appeal of a contempt order designed to force her to testify as to who her sources were. The fines were to start out at $500 a day, growing from there to $1,000 and eventually $5,000 a day; the fines were set to begin Tuesday." "McCain to media: Let's stay together" The Deal reports, "New York Times Co. CEO Janet Robinson said at a Bear Stearns Conference Tuesday that the company is unlikely to sell The Boston Globe or its stake in the Boston Red Sox. 'The regionals took many steps to reduce their cost structure, and they will do so this year. There are a number of competitive companies in the market, and they are not selling in this difficult climate,' she said. 'We believe that the Red Sox have performed very well,' she added." Don't forget that the America and the World 2008 panel discussion is tonight at the Press Club. For more info, click here. "Making Sausage: A Reporter's Emails" How dare they! Express slaps Tucker. "Spitzer's media enablers." Mark Hemingway thinks that some reporters really had it tough when researching the Spitzer story. The National Archives is hosting a Public Interest Declassification Board Meeting on March 17 to solicit public reaction to its recent Report, "Improving Declassification." The meeting will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at the National Archives and Records Administration, Jefferson Conference Room. Top of post TV A release announced, "Smithsonian Channel continues to increase its distribution with the announcement today of a High Definition (HD) carriage agreement with RCN Corporation (NASDAQ: RCNI), a broadband, facilities-based competitive telecommunications provider that delivers video, high-speed data, and voice services to residential and small-medium business customers and high-capacity data transport and voice services to large commercial customers" Happy 70th Birthday to CBS's World News Roundup. Check out the first Roundup ever from from March 13, 1938 here. "Why Is Managing NPR So Damn Difficult?" Reuters reports, "An unexpectedly long presidential primary season has helped CBS Corp. avoid the worst of U.S. economic doldrums, Chief Executive Les Moonves told analysts on Tuesday." The Wall Street Journal reports, "Nielsen will offer a new service that uses cable set-top boxes to shed light on people's TV-viewing habits. Nielsen has long dominated the U.S. television business with its panel-based ratings. But for the past two years, competitors such as TiVo, TNS and others have begun to chip away at that dominance by packaging second-by-second viewing of TV programs and ads from set-top-box data, something Nielsen has lacked." Top of post ONLINE MEDIA Do you know your news IQ? Check out the Pew News IQ test. A release announced, "Reporters Without Borders is making a new version of its Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents available to bloggers today to mark Online Free Expression Day." Check out the report here. Bloomberg reports, "Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Bewkes, who took the helm of the world's largest media company on Jan. 1, left open the possibility of a merger for its AOL Internet unit." The AP reports, "The CEO of The New York Times Co. said Tuesday that the company has an 'absolute priority' on expanding its operations online as a large shareholder is stepping up pressure on the Times to do even more." Top of post MAGAZINES Crain's New York Business reports, "Magazine publishers are once again trying to wean media buyers from circulation models to new models that measure their success based on audience engagement. On Tuesday, following a year of discussions between magazine executives from Hachette, Meredith, TV Guide, Time Inc., and others, the Magazine Publishers of America (MPA) and consultants McKinsey & Co., the MPA announced a new initiative to introduce readership metrics that are closer to TV, radio and Web than current circ-based measurements." Top of post JOBS Washington Business Journal is looking for a Reporter. The Baltimore Sun is looking for a Web Producer. 1105 Media, Inc. is looking for a Reporter, Technology Trade Publication. National Public Radio is looking for a Supervising Senior Editor. Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive is looking for a Producer, Arts and Living. Society of American Florists is looking for a Senior Editor. Pew Research Center is looking for a Communications Associate. CATO Institute is looking for a Marketing Coordinator. National Fish and Wildlife Foundation is looking for a Marketing Communications Manager. Top of post Hat Tips: DCRTV, TVNewser, IWantMedia, Romenesko, MediaBistro, JournalismJobs, JournalismNext

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