RomeneskoYour daily fix of media industry news, commentary, and memos.Reporter fired for posting anonymous opinions on website- May 10, 2006 Read the articleAssociated Press Lancaster Online Justin Quinn, a Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer Journal reporter for six years, says he began posting on the paper's message board to "set the record straight" about topics he covered, but eventually began offering his opinions as well. He was dismissed last month. Related postings.http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=101198 Lacey wants VV journos to pick up the phone, do interviews- May 10, 2006 Read the article"On the Media" Mark Jurkowitz says Village Voice Media executive editor Michael Lacey's tough-guy approach with the Village Voice staff has been sad to witness. "Frankly, when you have people like Nat Hentoff, who is about 80, and Sydney Schanberg, who's in his 70s, men who helped define journalism for a generation or two, I don't find it particularly appealing that you would go out of your way to pick fights with folks like that." Lacey tells Bob Garfield: "I said you need to..http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=101195 Boston Herald may have to make radical changes to survive- May 10, 2006 Read the articleAssociated Press Some media observers suggest the Herald switch to free distribution or even abandon newsprint a few years from now in favor of online-only distribution. "What I would do is make the Herald a 21st Century tabloid newspaper-slash-information source, and put a lot of my focus online," says Tobe Berkovitz, associate dean of Boston University's College of Communication.http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=101192 What WSJ readers want news websites to look like in 2016- May 10, 2006 Read the articleWall Street Journal One reader doesn't want editors calling the shots. "Instead, users will vote content to the front page. Fact checkers will be the only staff left as they verify and comment on the information posted by the community of readers. In the next decade the broadcaster and the reader will merge into one."http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=101189 Shafer: Calame's bad, but NYT shouldn't dump ombud post- May 10, 2006 Read the articleSlate Byron Calame's "bloodless performance" as Times public editor convinces some that the position should be scrapped, says Jack Shafer. He disagrees. "Even a bad public editor can do a little good, though he might not get a book out of it. Even Byron Calame."http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=101186 Newsweeklies have retreated from their jobs, says Scocca- May 10, 2006 Read the articleNew York Observer They should be covering the news. "Most of the reporting in the Time 100 issue -- and in New Yorks knock-off issue -- rehashes what everyone already knows about the subjects," writes Tom Scocca. "Arent cheap clip-jobs the province of blogs There are better, faster ways to get a painless consensus overview on a topic now -- you can read about one of them, Wikipedia, on the first page of the 'Scientists & Thinkers' section in Time." Friedman: There's an...http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=101183 Time wins general excellence award, editor gets standing O- May 10, 2006 Read the articleNYT NYP Gawker ASME At the 40th annual National Magazine Awards, Time won its first general excellence award since 1985. Keith J. Kelly reports managing editor Jim Kelly received the loudest and most sustained applause when picked up the award. Other winners of the general excellence awards for their category of circulation were ESPN The Magazine, Esquire, New York, Harper's and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Gawker live-blogged the event. Read judges' comments. No...http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=101180 |