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Salon cuts nine staffers

Editor-in-chief Joan Walsh, in an e-mail to Politico, said that nine staffers were let go last week, the first cuts since 2001. Indeed, Shapiro said he was informed last Friday afternoon, a couple hours after interviewing Bill Ayers at his house. ...

From MICHAEL CALDERONE, The Politico,  21 Nov 2008

AP names regional editors

Larry Rosenthal, news editor for the AP in Philadelphia, has been promoted to the new position of East editor. David Meeks, former city editor of The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, started Nov. 3 in the new position of assistant sports editor for ...

From MICHAEL CALDERONE, The Politico,  21 Nov 2008

Baquet names NYT's White House team

Subject: A note from Dean Dear Washington Bureau: It is obvious but worth repeating: Washington has never been under a lens like this before. We're in the midst of an unprecedented shift in power that the world is closely watching, and economic chaos ...

From MICHAEL CALDERONE, The Politico,  21 Nov 2008

Capus: MSNBC hosts aren't 'flag-wavers for Obama'

After peaking with a weekly average of 3.5 million viewers during prime time during election week, Fox News lost more than a million viewers the next week. CNN saw an even larger exodus, with its peak prime-time audience of 3.3 million dropping ...

From MICHAEL CALDERONE, The Politico,  21 Nov 2008

Dave and Katie make nice

The New York Post pointed out yesterday that David Letterman never brought up John McCain dissing him for Katie Couric, during the "CBS Evening News" anchor's appearance on Wednesday's show. So last night, Letterman called up Couric to discuss the ...

From MICHAEL CALDERONE, The Politico,  21 Nov 2008

Who wants the fairness doctrine?

Responses from the offices of most of the Democrats who have been pegged as fairness-doctrine proponents--Schumer, Dick Durbin, Dianne Feinstein, and others--have ranged from a firm denial that the issue is a priority at all to disbelief at ...

From MICHAEL CALDERONE, The Politico,  21 Nov 2008

Tribune chooses White House team

Last week, I asked Cissy Baker—now bureau chief of the combined Tribune bureau in D.C.—about who’d cover the Obama White House. Baker said that specific beats wouldn’t be assigned until after “all the dust settles” from the shake-up coming out of ...

From MICHAEL CALDERONE, The Politico,  20 Nov 2008

NYT Co. slashes dividend

In yet another sign of difficulties within the newspaper industry, The New York Times Company just announced that the board's cutting the quarterly dividend from $.23 to $.06 a share. "This was a difficult but necessary decision that will provide us ...

From MICHAEL CALDERONE, The Politico,  20 Nov 2008

Packer's so over Kristol

Packer has long hated Kristol, giving him a share of the blame for the Iraq War in his book Assassin's Gate. Packer is typical of far-left criticism: It isn't sufficient to simply debate an opponent's proposal, you must tear down and belittle your ...

From MICHAEL CALDERONE, The Politico,  20 Nov 2008

Fox's Ailes signs new contract

Both Drudge and HuffPost heard that Fox News chief Roger Ailes is signing a new contract to remain at News Corp -- still developing, on both ends. A Fox spokesperson confirmed to Politico that Ailes is staying on, and more details will come later. ...

From MICHAEL CALDERONE, The Politico,  20 Nov 2008

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