Blog Profile / Romenesko

Texas Monthly and Atlanta Magazine are the big winners in CRMA’s awards competition

Washingtonian, D Magazine and Honolulu Magazine won the General Excellence Awards at last night’s 28th Annual National City and Regional Magazine Awards competition. Atlanta Magazine and Texas Monthly were the top winners, each receiving four awards. Show More Summary

Yahoo’s blasts from the past

Oh yeah. I forgot Yahoo bought Geocities too. nyti.ms/16IMpTJ #yumblr — Eric Democko (@Ericstreets) May 21, 2013

Morning report for May 21, 2013

Jack Shafer wonders how much of Fox Newser James Rosen’s trouble is of his own making. (blogs.reuters.com) Was Fox News blindslided by the Rosen investigation? (washingtonpost.com) Richard Tofel: “ProPublica’s job is to report the news rather than to make news ourselves, but…” (propublica.org) Yahoo moves into four floors of the old … Read More

What Patch employees were told during the Friday evening conference call

On Friday afternoon, AOL president Tim Armstrong announced that Patch was restructuring and laying off some employees. (Bloomberg reports 40 people were let go.) CEO Jon Brod is returning to AOL Ventures and COO Steve Kalin is moving up to chief executive, Armstrong said. The changes were discussed during an all-company conference call that started … Read More

Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh’s bike-cam video goes viral

Washington Post copy editor Bill Walsh writes in an email: “So here I am on the eve of my book launch, hoping I’ll get a little exposure, when a silly 18-second video clip from my bike-helmet cam goes bigger than anything I’ll ever write will.” The clip (700,000 views and counting); City Paper, DCist, and … Read More

Gus Wenner is put in charge of RollingStone.com

Here’s Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner’s memo about his son‘s promotion. (I inserted the photo.) From: Jann Wenner Date: Monday, May 20, 2013 2:52 PM Subject: Gus Wenner Dear all: [Wenner Media chief digital officer] David Kang and I are very pleased — and I am very proud — to announce that Gus Wenner [left], … Read More

Headline of the day

“Wanted to share an LAT headline that gave me a good laugh just now,” writes Romenesko reader Stephanie Chan. I’ve asked the Los Angeles Times who should get credit for it. Big rig carrying fruit crashes on 210 Freeway, creates jam (latimes.com)

Keith Olbermann backs Fox Newser and DOJ target James Rosen

My experience dealing with @jamesrosenfnc was unpleasant and contentious. And I fully support him against this unwarranted act by DOJ — Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) May 20, 2013 Fox News: “We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter” (foxnews.com) Steven … Read More

Vaness Grigoriadis recalls having ‘a jolly good time’ at New York magazine

New York and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vanessa Grigoriadis discusses her early days at New York Magazine and how the publication has changed: I come from this old New York magazine – very influenced by Spy – where we were just having a jolly good time in that office, and we were trying to make … Read More

Fired Village Voice columnist Michael Musto says he’s getting job offers

HuffPost Live: “I don’t think anybody’s worried about you. I think people are worried about the paper. I mean, what’s the mood like there? Michael Musto: “It’s a little dour, but I love the people that work there, so I’m rooting for them. No ill will; besides I’m working on my exit package, so… I … Read More

Good work, NPR!

NPR’s guide to the running gags on “Arrested Development” (npr.org)

Morning Report for May 20, 2013

Report: David Koch canceled a large donation to public TV because of the “Park Avenue” documentary. (newyorker.com) Yahoo promises not to screw up Tumblr. (allthingsd.com) | (wsj.com) Associated Press CEO says the Obama administration’s seizure of AP’s phone records was “unconstitutional.” (nytimes.com) A peek into a Department of Justice leak probe … Read More

‘Great on so many levels’: A reporter named Fears covers bug phobia

After Perkins sent his email, I saw that @phogan tweeted: “The reporter who wrote this great article on insect phobias is darrylfears. I assume he covers the phobias beat?” Fears’ reaction? “With a name like mine, you get that all the time, Jim. Since grade school.” Bug-phobic dread the looming swarm of Brood II … Read More

Afternoon report for May 18, 2013

Santa Barbara News-Press employees vote to cut ties with the Teamsters. (AP via vcstar.com) “College reporters live in a universe that more closely resembles the post-AP subpoena world, for professional reporters, than the pre-AP subpoena world.” (usatodayeducate.com) Village Voice advertises for a full-time staff writer. Show More Summary

Editor quits over ‘Detroit Loses, Dykes Win’ article

“I have officially resigned my editor position…” (facebook.com) Small SUV Crashopalooza: Detroit loses, dykes win (thetruthaboutcars.com)

Cagle Cartoons employee sues Daryl Cagle, continues to work for him

A cartoonist at a major daily paper on Thursday sent his contacts (including me) a link to a Dawson v. Cagle Cartoons, Inc. lawsuit that was filed in late March. “This is interesting,” he wrote. “I can’t ad [sic] much more to this. The person filing is his marketing person.” The Fair Labor Standards Act … Read More

Patch restructures and lays off staffers

Here’s part of an email I received Thursday afternoon: “It would appear that your take on AOL Patch over the past couple of years was spot-on. You might want to keep your eye out for a blood-letting. Substantial layoffs appear to have started at the manager level in many states and may accelerate tomorrow.” An … Read More

St. Louis anchor is taken off the air after posting about IRS ‘hammering me’

The news director at St. Louis’s KMOV says “we just all thought it made sense” for anchor Larry Conners to take a few days off while the station looks into allegations that the newsman was was targeted by the IRS after he interviewed President Barack Obama in April of 2012. Conners wrote on Facebook earlier … Read More

Village Voice cans Michael Musto and others

Morning Report for May 17, 2013

New York Post offers buyouts to several of its highest-paid veteran journalists. (capitalnewyork.com) Fox News spent one minute covering marriage equality victories in three states. (buzzfeed.com) Gawker’s Tom Scocca chides the Toronto Star for sitting on the Mayor Rob Ford crack story. (@tomscocca) | Gawker’s story | The Star’s story. Time … Read More