Archive for October 14th, 2009

Washington Post’s Dana Priest speaking at Duke

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post investigative reporter Dana Priest will deliver the 2009-10 Ewing Lecture on Ethics in Journalism at Duke University’s DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy on Monday, October 19.

Priest’s reporting focuses on counter-terrorism, intelligence and military affairs. In 2006, she won a Pulitzer for reporting about CIA secret prisons and counter-terrorism operations, and in 2008, she won the Pulitzer Public Service award for “The Other Walter Reed,” her report about conditions in the military hospital.

Priest’s speech is titled Adventures in Journalism, from CIA Secret Prisons to Walter Reed. The Ewing Lecture will take place from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Room 04 on the lower floor at the Sanford School of Public Policy (campus map).

Get more information at 919-613-7330.

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Condé Nast bridal advertisers revolt

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

One move in Condé Nast’s recent restructuring and closing of magazines is backfiring.

“According to an insider, longtime Brides advertisers are ‘jumping ship,’ causing the magazine to hemorrhage ad pages and sending panic through the magazine’s new regime,” reports The New York Post.

“The chaos, the insider said, is ‘a direct response to Condé Nast’s move to replace the Brides ad-sales team’ with people from Cookie, one of four Condé magazines shuttered last week.

“‘What Condé Nast fails to realize is that from the publisher down, the relationships developed and maintained in the bridal category were hard fought and won,’ this person said.”

On October 5, Condé Nast announced it was closing Gourmet magazine, the parenting magazine Cookie and the wedding publications Elegant Bride and Modern Bride. About 180 people will lose their jobs as a result of the four closings, according to the New York Times.

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Tribune papers to adopt narrow format

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Tribune Co., publishers of The (Baltimore) Sun, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hartford (Conn.) Courant and six other daily newspapers, is moving to a 44-inch web for all of its papers over the next several months, according to News & Technology.

The News & Observer in Raleigh made the switch to the narrow format in August, changing from a 48-inch web.

The Sun is already smaller, and other Tribune papers will follow suit, with some shaving two inches from their web while the flagship Tribune and L.A. Times move from 48 inches to the slimmer profile.

The smaller size saves money on newsprint, one of newspapers’ biggest expenses.

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