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Thursday, April 19, 2007
Flak Over Killer's Video Spilling Onto Newspaper Pages Too Through the day Thursday NBC faced a growing backlash for airing parts of the video mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui sent the network after killing two Virginia Tech students and preparing to slaughter another 30 people. But newspapers that chose to run sensational front-page images of the gun-toting killer also heard complaints.- April 19, 2007 4:50 PM ET
New 'WSJ' Editor: Newspapers Suffer From 'Moroseness' "People are very focused on newspapers, but not as entities of information," Marcus Brauchli told E&P a day after being tapped as the Journal's new managing editor. "We are news organizations, we deliver news and information to our readers through myriad channels. In an information age, it is particularly clear that people who provide valuable information and content should flourish."- April 19, 2007 11:30 AM ET
'Strib' Chairman Rejects Call for Independent Inquiry Into Ridder Case The Chairman of the Star Tribune responded Wednesday to calls from the paper's guild for an independent inquiry into the controversy surrounding new publisher Par Ridder, saying that running a parallel investigation to the current legal proceeding "seems presumptive that the judicial process is somehow flawed." The judge presiding over the lawsuit has warned that the credibility of both Twin Cities papers is at stake.- April 18, 2007 4:25 PM ET; UPDATED April 19, 1:15 PM
Jon Auerbach Named Editor in Chief of Metro U.S. Jon Auerbach has been named editor in chief of Metro U.S., and will be in charge of papers in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Auerbach most recently the executive editor of Star Magazine, and previously was assistant managing editor and Sunday editor at the New York Post.
Ken McElroy Named Ad Director at 'Butler (Pa.) Eagle' Ken McElroy has been named advertising director of the Butler (Pa.) Eagle. McElroy most recently was director of advertising at the Kenosha (Wis.) News.
What Good Could Come From Airing the VT Killer's Video? NBC played into this murderer's hands, and thus makes itself an accomplice to his horrific acts, by flooding the country with his images, making him a hero for every nut job in the country. - by Dennis Byrne - April 19, 2007
Writing About Race -- And Winning a Pulitzer The story behind the book that won a Pulitzer for history this week, written by two well-known newspaper editors, Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff. - by Joe Strupp - April 17, 2007
SAGE Advice: Audience for Movie Listings Migrating to Web As search functions and ability of online media to deliver information gets better and better, newspapers in print will become less and less able to compete for movie listing searchers. - by Leo J. Shapiro, Erik Shapiro and Steve Yahn - April 15, 2007
Squeezing Money From Iron An appealing aspect of realigning newspaper ownership into geographic clusters has been the opportunity to centralize production. Printing several titles at one plant can improve both efficiency and quality. More recently, retreating business has spurred production consolidation at big-city newspapers, neighboring community dailies, and large metro-area groups.
'Cold War' Ends in Carolina For more than a century, two North Carolina newspapers -- The News & Observer in Raleigh and The Charlotte Observer -- have dominated their respective regions. These two old lions had marked their territories, and were not above a good scratching match. But that all changed in March 2006, following the announcement of McClatchy's industry-shifting acquisition of Knight Ridder. In that transaction, McClatchy's News & Observer was suddenly thrown into the company of its sometime competitor, the former Knight Ridder-owned Charlotte Observer. Now executives at both papers are working together to achieve that much-loved Wall Street buzzword: efficiency.
Getting Wired: New Image for AP Kathleen Carroll likely has more influence over the content of their news feeds than anyone else in the country. As executive editor of The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization, Carroll's decisions arguably have more impact on more news reporting than editors of The New York Times, producers at CNN, or the online newsies at Yahoo. And since Carroll took over the top spot in 2002, becoming the first woman at the helm, she has made her mark by instituting a string of changes in AP operations that are among the most significant in the news cooperative's 161-year history.
After a Dark Day, Lights Eric Connolly/Collegiate Times Candles are held aloft to honor the victims of a Monday shooting spree on the campus of Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Va, which left 33 dead, including the gunman.
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