Monthly Archives: January 2009

A Different Curse Of The Bambino

So there will be no staff-produced Red Sox coverage in The Courant come Spring Training, E&P reports. Former Red Sox beat writer Jeff Goldberg took the buyout, as many know, and Sports Editor Jeff Otterbein, who must be beside himself, won’t be replacing him.  He cites the cost, which is not insignificant. Maybe the Courant could persuade Lee [...]

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How’s Your Attitude?

Everyone see the Tribune’s new “Attitude” lash on personal evals? My take on www.denishorgan.com – denis horgan [Note: I've quoted some of the Chicago Tribune's full memo below-- Stern] Another new companywide assessment category is Attitude. Our attitudes influence our own behavior and performance, and also that of our colleagues’. We believe positive attitude is [...]

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Washington Update

Hope you weren’t expecting something about Barack Obama…. This is info on Mike Remez, ex of the Courant’s Washington bureau. (I actually remember when he got hired at the Courant, joined the Manchester bureau, and got his orientation tour from then-State editor M.J. Smith.) “I am now working at the Pew Research Center here in DC, [...]

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Another Alum Heard From

Former assistant nightside editor Kent Miles reports that he is doing well in Atlanta at the Journal-Constitution.  Months after he arrived there on the copy desk, the Newsroom Cutback syndrome struck the paper, leaving him a reporter in Cobb County, 17 miles outside the city. He now covers county government and politics, and unlike many of [...]

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