Gwen Ifill Discusses her New Book with the APC
Tuesday, April 21st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Washington Week managing editor and host Gwen Ifill addressed a soldout luncheon downtown Monday at The Commerce Club, kicking off a dizzying several weeks of high profile events that will also bring U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson, and Ali Velshi, and ...
Pulitzer Prize for Doug Blackmon
Monday, April 20th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Wall Street Journal Atlanta bureau chief Doug Blackmon has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction for his book, "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II." The Pulitzer judges ...
More Shake-Up at the AJC
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Rather than rehash Creative Loafing writer/blogger Scott Henry's informative posts from the past few days about the recent shakedowns at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, I will post a link here. Henry reports on the more than 70 newsroom staff members who ...
A Coup for the Club!
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »With the addition of Jim Lehrer to our roster of speakers, scheduled for early May, it's been brought to our attention that the Atlanta Press Club has made quite a coup: We will have had all four moderators from the ...
Ms. Tucker Goes To Washington
Monday, April 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »The Atlanta Journal-Constitution today reports that Cynthia Tucker, its Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial page editor, is moving to Washington, D.C., this summer and will write two political columns per week for the AJC. She also will write a blog for the ...
[Video Segment] Lt. Governor Casey Cagle at the Atlanta Press Club April 6, 2009
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 Posted in APC programs, Newsmaker Luncheons | No Comments »Lt. Governor Casey Cagle discusses Georgia's Legislative Session with the Atlanta Press Club on April 6, 2009 at the organization's Newsmaker Luncheon Series. Special thanks to APC member Amani Channel for donating video production services for the Cagle event. Channel's ...
UGA Reporters Take IRE Student Prize
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Congratulations to Kristen Coulter, Brian Hughes, Carolyn Crist, Matthew Grayson and Melissa Weinman of the University of Georgia's student newspaper, The Red & Black, for winning the top prize for student media from Investigative Reporters & Editors . Announced yesterday, the ...
Atlanta magazine is national finalist
Thursday, March 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Congratulations to Atlanta magazine, which is once again up for a National Magazine Award, the highest honor in the industry. The magazine has been named a finalist in the single-topic issue category for its April 2008 issue commemorating the 40th ...
R.I.P., P-I
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today is the last day that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, is in print. The 146-year-old daily will continue running its website, but much of the content will be blogs, articles repurposed from other Hearst publications and columns. Though I never read the ...
Move for MDJ President/COO
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Terry Smith, president and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Marietta Daily Journal and Neighborhood Newspaper Group, is leaving the company after 27 years to become Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Multiple Sclerosis Center of Atlanta. After stints as director ...