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Bret’s first day

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Fox’s Bret Baier kicked off his first night replacing Brit Hume with a new slogan: "your source for news, tonight and every night," rather than "fair, balanced and unafraid."

And the Washington Post notes, in a profile of Baier …

Another M.E. contender at the Post?

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Post staffers have long expected that WashingtonPost.com editor Liz Spayd would eventually move up at the paper, perhaps to a new position as managing editor of both print and web. And yesterday’s news that Phil Bennett was stepping down …

Remainders: Here come Obama books

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Stanage beats out the big boys with Obama book: "Redemption Song: An Irish Reporter Inside the Obama Campaign." On this side of the pond, Chuck Todd’s book is due out tomorrow.

Bennett says he …

NBC: Coulter isn’t banned

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Following up on the news that Ann Coulter’s appearance on "Today" tomorrow morning was canceled, and Drudge’s report that she’s been banned for life, an NBC spokesperson issued the following statement to Politico.

"We’ve had Ann Coulter on ‘Today’ …

Who’ll get the State Dept. beat?

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Today is Kevin Merida’s first day as the Washington Post’s AME / National, and he already has a top appointment to make: diplomatic correspondent.

As reported earlier, Michael Abramowitz—who just moved from the White House beat …

Coulter’s ‘Today’ show interview canceled

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Ann Coulter was scheduled to appear on the "Today" show Tuesday morning to promote her new book, "Guilty." But it’s now been canceled, according to her website.

Coulter wrote: "TODAY SHOW AND TODAY SHOW FOURTH HOUR: …

Fox, CNN hacked on Twitter

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Subscribers to Twitter feeds for Fox News and CNN anchor Rick Sanchez got a surprise, courtesy of hackers. (Via Gawker and FishbowlNY)

Scribner lands Laura Bush memoir

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

The Observer reports that Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, won the bidding war for Laura Bush’s post-White House memoir.

The book, which will include details of Mrs. Bush’s eight years in the White House, will be edited by …

WaPo’s Abramowitz to Holocaust Museum

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Phil Bennett isn’t the only one leaving the Washington Post’s newsroom today.

Politico has learned that White House reporter and former editor Michael Abramowitz is leaving the paper to take a position with the Holocaust Museum.Abramowitz will become the director …

Brauchli building ‘new leadership structure’

January 5th, 2009 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Washington Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli addressed staff this morning, following the announced departure of managing editor Phil Bennett, who’s taking a job upstairs with Don Graham.

After thanking Bennett "for his assistance in helping to smooth …




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