Stewart Cink Considers Himself a Native Georgian
Thursday, September 17th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »British Open champion and TPC Sugarloaf resident Stewart Cink has some 900,000 followers on Twitter, the social networking site. That's just one interesting fact you probably didn't know about Cink whose stories poking fun at himself brought laughs and merriment ...
Lunch with Jerry Springer, a Man of Many Dimensions
Monday, September 14th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Lunch with Jerry Springer is a fasten your seat belt whirlwind. You spend an hour feeling like you are a passenger on his extraordinary turbo-charged hot air balloon. Springer cares passionately about many things, among them the tabloid television talker ...
Creative Loafing Sold to Highest Bidder
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Check out Atlanta Press Club board member Mara Shalhoup's blog piece this afternoon about the sale of Creative Loafing's parent company, headed by CEO Ben Eason, to Atalaya Capital Management in a bankruptcy auction. More information to come, according to local ...
Don Hewitt, 60 Minutes creator, dies
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Award-winning CBS television executive Don Hewitt, who was executive producer of "60 Minutes" for some 36 years, has died. He was 86 and had pancreatic cancer. Hewitt started his career in newspapers but spent most of his journalism life working for ...
Robert Novak Dies
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »More than a year after being diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor, conservative columnist Robert Novak has died. Novak had been a commentator for CNN for 25 years, most often appearing as co-host of "Crossfire." According to CNN's obituary of Novak, "In 2003, ...
AJC Moves Blog
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Well .. at least they don't plan to call it the Metro Atlanta Journal & Constitution., or some such name! That was my first reaction today after seeing that the Atlanta Journal & Constitution is saying good riddance to its ...
Colleagues Pay Tribute to Cronkite
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Walter Cronkite's funeral was today. I've been really fascinated and moved as I've learned more about his life and amazing accomplishments. The service today -- and all who spoke about him -- was a testament to the inspiration he has ...
AJC Names New Publisher
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Today, executives of Cox Media Group announced the promotion of Michael Joseph to publisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Joseph has been with the AJC since April as president and general manager, and previously was president and CEO of Cox Ohio Publishing ...
R.I.P. Atlanta writer Paul Hemphill
Monday, July 13th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Atlanta author Paul Hemphill, a celebrated columnist for the Atlanta Journal and the author of a popular biography of Hank Williams, died today at the age of 73, from cancer that had spread from his mouth to his lungs. According ...
CNNRadio Reporter Ed McCarthy Dies
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Longtime CNNRadio correspondent Ed McCarthy died yesterday after battling cancer. Before joining CNNRadio in 1986 as a news and business anchor, McCarthy was news director and co-host of a morning show at a Fort Pierce, Fla., radio station. He also was ...