Morning Reading List 06.01.09

Good morning FishbowlDC! Got a blind item, interesting link, funny note, comment, birthday, anniversary or anything of the sort for Morning Reading List? Drop us a line. Catching up on birthdays... Happy Birthday to Pete Seat, CBS' Frank Thorp. What we know and what we're reading this Monday morning... TV | MAGAZINES | NEWS NOTES | WEST WING REPORTAGE | JOBS TV CNN was launched 29 years ago today. Daily Beast has the 7 Best Moments From Sunday Talk. AP's David Bauder "Cheney, Powell interviews winners for Schieffer": "The interviews continued a good run for "Face the Nation," which had its largest audience in five years when Obama appeared on March 29. With an average of 2.55 million viewers each week during May, "Face the Nation" is right behind ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, at 2.72 million viewers. Both broadcasts are up 3 percent over May 2008, according to Nielsen Media Research." Brian Williams will anchor an NBC News special "Inside the Obama White House" tomorrow and Wednesday night at 9pmET/PT. Playbook reports NBC taped 150 hours at the White House- and the specials are each one-hour long. You can follow InsideObamaWH on Twitter here, check out WhiteHouse.msnbc.com and more details here. WaPo's Howard Kurtz's Media Notes: "A tired-sounding Willliams, who covered the Clinton White House and was an intern in the Carter White House, was delighted at the level of access, which will continue with interviews tomorrow. 'There's stuff we've never seen of how the White House operates,' he says. 'We were pretty stunned at how much we were able to record and how natural events seemed to be.'" TVNewser also reports NBC may have violated pool rules in the Prince Harry interview. Campbell Brown returns to CNN tonight from maternity leave. Playbook reports her guest on "No Bias, No Bull" will be former president Jimmy Carter, who will tell her "the advice he'd give Obama before he heads to the hotbed of the Middle East." Friday was Jay Leno's last night on NBC's The Tonight Show. Conan O'Brien takes the reins tonight and Leno moves to primetime. NYT asks will it work? MAGAZINES Friday was Peter Kaplan's last day at The Observer- a history of the "Kaplan era" here. NEWS NOTES AP: As global powers debate how to punish North Korea for its nuclear defiance, two American journalists seized nearly three months ago face a trial this week in Pyongyang on charges that could land them in one of the country's notorious labor camps. WEST WING REPORTAGE TNR: Since the inauguration, Washington Post legend Bob Woodward has been quietly reporting a new book on the Obama White House. "I'm in the preliminary stages of working on it," Woodward confirmed recently. "I'm working on it and making progress." Richard Wolffe's book "Renegade: The Making of a President" hits book shelves. HuffPost has an excerpt. HAT TIPS: Mediabistro, Playbook JOBS after the jump... a2a_linkname="FishbowlDC: Morning Reading List 05-12-09";a2a_linkurl="http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/on/morning_reading_list_051209_116280.asp";a2a_show_title=1; JOBS National Geographic is looking for a senior administrative assistant. Science News is looking for a design director. Global Policy Solutions is looking for a communications director. Check out MediaJobsDaily.

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Morning Reading List 06.01.09

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