Susan Stone Leaving WSB
Thursday, October 19th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »After the Nov. book, Susan Stone, Exec. Producer at WSB-TV, will be moving to Phoenix to work as Investigative Executive Producer at the ABC affilite. Susan has been a long-time friend and past Board member of the press club. We'll ...
Larry Lowenstein Will Be Missed
Friday, October 6th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The Atlanta Press Club lost a long-time friend and member this week. Larry Lowenstein worked in our business for decades, exhibiting integrity and honesty at every turn. I found Larry to be a delightful man with a quick and genuine ...
HP Pretexting, faking IDs to investigate contact with media!
Thursday, September 14th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »SABEW recently released a statement condeming HP's actions of reportedly hiring private investigators to learn who on their Board was talking the press. The PIs allegedly stole the identity of at least one reporter in order to obtain phone records detailing ...
Atl Bus Chron Parent Co Buys Sporting News Mag
Thursday, September 14th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »American City Business Journals, Inc., parent company of Atlanta Business Chronicle, has agreed to acquire Sporting News Magazine, its online and book publishing units and Sporting News Radio Network from Vulcan Sports Media, Inc. Terms of the acquisition, which is ...
Melanie & Josh Welcome Baby Ryan!
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Admittedly, this blog has not yet taken off the way we'd hoped, but Melanie Levs has been a dedictated contributor and we may not be hearing from her for a while... on Sept. 5 Melanie and her husband Josh welcomed ...
Anticipating Katie Couric?
Monday, September 4th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Tomorrow night's the night: Katie Couric's big debut on CBS Evening News. I admit I have already set the DVR -- I am curious. I also was rather incensed by the recent incident in which Couric's publicity photo was altered. ...
Tabloid Wars
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Anyone else watching this fascinating show on Bravo on Monday evenings (new time starting next week, 7 p.m.)? It's a behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of the New York Daily News newsroom. I've seen three episodes and am hooked! ...
Hyde Post Named VP, Internet for AJC
Monday, August 14th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »In this newly created position, Post will oversee editorial, product development and operations for the AJC’s Internet group, including its classified verticals. Congrats Hyde!
Networked Journalism: Is the press going pro-am?
Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Talk of the "open-source media" or citizen journalist has certainly descended from the blog. What are your thoughts on this idea? Will it work? Can we have journalism with out the media? See Jay Rosen's thoughts and add your own...
Too much local media?
Thursday, July 20th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »With the announcement yesterday of yet another new local magazine, I couldn't help but wonder...is our local media market getting too crowded? It's exciting that so many companies feel Atlanta is a "hot" spot in which to start a publication ...