Monthly Archives: June 2010

The Day Needs A Night Person

The Day The Day is hiring: Night News Editor About Us – Jobs, TheDay.com www.theday.com This full-time position is responsible for managing the night city desk and overseeing community reporting. This editor directly manages a number of community reporters to generate various levels of coverage, schedules and assigns certain special features, is responsible for preparing [...]

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High Praise For DeSilva’s First Novel

Big news from Bruce DeSilva, former Courant writing coach: Publishers Weekly has included “Rogue Island” in its “First Fiction” feature, naming it one of the ten best debut novels of 2010! The list is drawn from both genre and literary fiction, so it’s quite an honor. Please spread the word. Here’s the link: (You’ll need [...]

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Zell In The Saddle

I suppose anyone with as much money as he has can afford to speak freely, so that’s what Sam Zell does. (See the second item in this post.)

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The Value Of An Independent Press

Looks like an L.A. Times pressman has been suspended for writing about events at the paper’s printing facility. There is a chance he will be fired, apparently. This sounds like shades of Denis Horgan’s experience at The Courant, only worse. I understand why a company might want to muzzle or punish an employee for revealing [...]

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