Romenesko Digest

Names appearing in the center section of Romenesko for April 6, as of 12:30 p.m., from bottom to top:

Couric, Goodman, Pickford, Couric, Brook Barnes, Katie Couric, Couric, Couric, Couric, Couric, Stanley, Walter [Cronkite], Couric, Chung, [Katie] Couric, Bill Carter, Couric, Couric, Vargas, Williams, Couric, Rooney, Schieffer, Couric, Matea Gold, Murphy, Bob, Bob Schieffer, Read More

Interns Tell CBS Brass How They’d Fix News

It was straight out of a reality show. With the performance over, the panel of judges slowly held up their scores, stenciled in black ink on white notebook paper: 7, 8, 7.

American Idol? Olympic figure skating? Not quite. The scene took place late last month in an executive boardroom at CBS News’ headquarters on Read More

January 7, 2004 – January 14, 2004

Wednesday 7th

Wake up, New Yorkers! The New Year is already a week old and you’re still romping around in your chandelier earrings in “holiday” mode, eating pastries, sucking down girl drinks and rolling into the office at 11 a.m. … This isn’t Aspen, folks! Then again, maybe it’s Santa Fe : strap on your Read More

George Shrinks

“There’s nothing like actually being in the chair,” George Stephanopoulos said. “That takes some getting used to.”

It was the morning of Monday, March 3, and Mr. Stephanopoulos, 42, was on the telephone from Washington, D.C. The last 72 hours had been a whirlwind for the still fresh-faced former Clinton aide turned journalist, now ensconced Read More

The Art of the Leak

For a man who may have expressed his most salient feelings about the weasely nature of the press in 2000, when he instructed NBC News associate producer Alexandra Pelosi, in her upcoming HBO documentary Journeys with George -”When you see me talking to you, they are going to act like your friends again, but these Read More

Still Wanted (They Say): TV Journos … Corrie Sloot Needs a Job … Wild Bob Schieffer Rocks the Conventions

Wednesday, Aug. 9

Remember the splashy, journalism-themed reality-TV series that ABC announced last spring–the one in which actual, real-life New York reporters would be filmed as they cranked out an actual, real-life New York magazine for the Web? A lot of places (including this newspaper) made a gigantic fuss about the Disney project, figuring that, Read More