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Media Mutt Blog Archive September, 2008
It Needs Work
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 09/29/2008 - 11:40am.Swap slop: How’s the new story-swapping arrangement among the Bangor Daily News, the Portland Press Herald, the Lewiston Sun Journal, the Kennebec Journal and the Morning Sentinel working? After one week, it’s difficult to say. The article-sharing deal has given readers
New Face at Statehouse News Service
Submitted by Al Diamon on Thu, 09/25/2008 - 6:52pm.Christopher Cousins, the city editor of the Times Record in Brunswick, will become the new reporter for the one-person Statehouse News Service. Cousins replaces Victoria Wallack, who is leaving at the end
Story-Swap Story Tells Only Part of the Story
Submitted by Al Diamon on Tue, 09/23/2008 - 7:39am.What wasn’t said: Maine’s largest dailies are locked in a fierce fight with the Associated Press. But readers would have little idea of that from a Sept. 20 story that ran in the Portland Press Herald, Bangor Daily News, Lewiston Sun Journal, Waterville’s
No More Associated Press?
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 09/17/2008 - 7:08pm.Dis-Associated: The tension between Maine’s major daily newspapers and the Associated Press is mounting. According to an informed source in the industry, the Portland
Wallack Walks Away
Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 8:31am.Victoria abdicates: Victoria Wallack is calling it quits. The respected, veteran reporter who runs the one-person Statehouse News Service, is leaving journalism at the end of September to become the director of communications for the Maine School Management Association.
Wallack’s
How Good Was Caldwell's 'Get'?
Submitted by Al Diamon on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 10:42pm.Rob hobnobs: Rob Caldwell, co-host of WCSH-TV’s and WLBZ-TV’s magazine show “207,” scored a “get” (industry talk for an interview with a sought-after figure) on Sept. 10, when he
Buyouts at WGME?
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 09/10/2008 - 6:15pm.Been on the job too long: WGME-TV in Portland may be offering buyouts to longtime staffers. According to a knowledgeable source outside the station, Channel 13 is offering early retirement deals to employees who joined the station before Dec. 31, 1999.
News director Robb Atkinson
Irving Looks at Blethen
Submitted by Al Diamon on Fri, 09/05/2008 - 6:00am.On Sept. 3 and 4, representatives of Brunswick News Inc. toured the Portland Press Herald’s facilities, prompting speculation that the Canadian company is interested in buying the Blethen Maine Newspapers. Blethen is trying to sell its Maine holdings, which include dailies in Portland, Augusta
"The Political Edge" Needs Sharpening
Submitted by Al Diamon on Wed, 09/03/2008 - 7:50pm.Needs honing: On Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. I turned on the TV to check out the first edition of WGME-TV’s “News 13 at Seven: The Political Edge.”
Well, not really.
I’d already had enough politics for one day, so I watched the Red Sox game. But I recorded
The Sunday Telegram: Great or Just Late?
Submitted by Al Diamon on Tue, 09/02/2008 - 7:27pm.Raise praise: How wonderful was the Maine Sunday Telegram’s long, long story on Aug. 31 on the terrible financial mistakes the Portland School Department made in negotiating a new pay scale for teachers?
It was “riveting.”
