Morning Reading List 06.24.09

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. What we know and what we're reading this Wednesday morning... NEWSPAPERS | TV | ONLINE | BOOKS | NEWS NOTES | WEST WING REPORTAGE | REVOLVING DOOR | JOBS NEWSPAPERS NYT: After months of bitter struggle that included a threat to shut down The Boston Globe, the New York Times Company and the paper's largest union reached a tentative contract settlement on Tuesday night, with employees agreeing to significant cuts in wages, benefits, and job security. WaPo's Katharine Weymouth spoke Saturday at the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism's commencement- the school also honored Roxana Saberi with its Medal for Courage. Weymouth said, "I believe firmly that great journalism - the need for good old-fashioned beat and enterprise reporting -- has never been more important. Certainly no one would argue that there isn't enough news to report anymore. Nor do I believe that people's interest or engagement in the news has changed. What has changed is the number of voices out there, the role that media plays in our lives and the business model that has supported journalism. This is a time of great transformation -- but it's also a time of great anticipation and creativity." Read her speech here. TV Playbook reports this morning that there are "so many technicians and journalists are on the grounds that the Secret Service ran out of laminated "PRESS" passes and was giving "TOUR" tags to reporters." See how cable news ratings increased with coverage of Iran- Fox News ranked third in all of cable in primetime last week. "Real World" is coming to DC, as you've heard, but there are major cuts coming to MTV. ONLINE The Iran election has increased new traffic to Twitter. Hitwise notes traffic to Twitter.com rose 13% June 12 compared with the previous Friday and was up 23% June 17 versus the prior Wednesday. (h/t WebNewser) ABCNews.com has announced it is producing a daily half-hour program about the crisis in Iran. "Nightline: Iran in Crisis" will be broadcast at 11:30am and available on the Nightline section of ABCNEWS.com and on ABC News NOW, the network's 24-hour digital channel. BOOKS Roxana Saberi is working on a memoir of her arrest, sentence and release in Iran, to be published by HarperCollins in March 2010, according to the AP. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is penning a memoir expected out in spring 2011, a few months after former President George W. Bush's book comes out, the AP points out. In an interview with the AP, Cheney said, "I want my grandkids, 20 or 30 years from now, to be able to read it and understand what I did, and why I did it." NEWS NOTES We seriously did not believe this when we first heard it, but now there's video proof. Remember Buzz Aldrin, the second man to set foot on the Moon, an American icon? Just in time for the moon-landing anniversary, he's teaming up with Snoop Dog and Talib Kweli to record his latest track, "Rocket Experience." You have to see this for yourself at FishbowlLA. WEST WING REPORTAGE Peter Osnos asks on The Daily Beast, "Does the Press Love Obama More Than Reagan?" Osnos checks in with ABC's Sam Donaldson and WaPo's Lou Cannon and David Hoffman. HAT TIPS: mediabistro, Politico JOBS after the jump... THE REVOLVING DOOR David Cohen joins mediabistro as an editor for WebNewser. More on his background here. Welcome! Margaret Brennan left CNBC for BloombergTV, according to TVNewser. JOBS Check out MediaJobsDaily.

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Morning Reading List 06.24.09

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