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KIEEPIN6 AN OPEN MIND ! left to do before I can write about my
NEWSBACKGROUNDER Making 1 conclusions.
i sense of the 2001 energy crisis 24 READ Allan Wolper’s informative ! Mr. Wolper’s piece unintentionally
piece about the continuing contro¬ I leaves the impression my mind is already
E&P NEWS versy over the “Operation Tailwind” I closed. It is not closed.
I story broadcast by CNN and printed by STEVE WEINBERG
Caught in the Web Papers } Time magazine [“‘Tailwind’Twister,” Columbia, Mo.
I pare down online operations.5 I Jan. 8, p. 46].
; The deal done DenverJOA Mr. Wolper quotes me in the piece. He YTHE JOEl ROSE CASE
heard that I’m looking into the contro¬
I p2irtners moving “full speed ahead” .6 i
versy under contract to The Nation maga¬ our most recent epic on the
I Heavy LIFTING OSHAknew ! zine, so he called me Dec. 29 to ask for tragic Joel Rose case in Cleveland
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j ergonomics standard.7 details. Mr. Wolper quotes me as saying: did me a disservice [“Papering
“The paper trail shows they [CNN pro¬ over the Joel Rose case in Cleveland?”
I Man bites dog Phillyreporter i
ducers] did a great job. It was a very thor¬ Dec. 18, p. 34].
I settles libel suit vs. the Inquirer.8 j
ough piece of journalism. They just did a Reasonable people can disagree over
j Seattle score Assessing wins, | helluva job of reporting The Plain Dealer’s deci¬
I losses after the strike.9 j — and for that piece to sion to report that Mr.
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have been disowned Rose was a suspect in a
I Unhappy in Jersey Jouma/ ! E&P xvelcomes letters. Send
was ridiculous.” sexually charged stalking
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Unfortunately, for investigation. I have no
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facsimile to [phone],
to MediaNews Group; Cool it!.11 Wolper omitted that my position, though I
or via snail-mail to “Letters,”
research has a long way disagree with it. My
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NEWSPEOPLE Richard Daniels new related to what the CNN unrelated facts: that I
title, organizational ciffilia-
! president at The Boston Globe ... .14 producers knew and how “refused to return eight
tion, location, and e-mail
they knew it. Yes, so far phone calls” to discuss
EDITORIAL Pressing George W. Bush I’m impressed with their address. Letters may be edited the case; but that I did
; to keep door open to the media ... .16 professionalism. for all the usual reasons. give an interview to a
But I have not inter¬ Hollywood producer who
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viewed anybody yet at length — not those offered to get Jennifer Lopez to play my
roll to win in NAA car ad contest . .28 |
' I inside and outside CNN and Time who role in a dramatization of the Rose story,
TECHNOLOGY Media convergence I publicly stand by the revelations as j The inference was that I refused to deal
j can’t be done on autopilot.28 | originally disseminated; not the I with the substance of the case, but was
detractors of the reporting; and not blinded by the prospect of marquee lights.
SYNDICATES UComics launched by i Floyd Abrams and David Kohler, two In fact, on the advice of my editor, I spoke
I uclick,udig?.33 j lawyers whose critique of the reporting 1 to no journalist about the case, something
on behalf of CNN led to the retraction. your reporter knew full well after the first
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VOLUME 134 FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 15, 200 1 ISSUE 3
A
multimillion-
dollar multimedia
campaign will break
this week for a new
a December conference with financial analysts, w'here company, Atlanta-
Newspapers rethinking their place
several newspaper companies declared they would do based Cingular Wire¬
in the dot-com world as many what it takes to turn profitable online this year or next. less, with a full-page
Said Robert Hertzberg, analyst with Jupiter Re¬ ad in The Wall Street
decide they must pull back
search: “Any traditional print publisher who invested Journal and a double¬
A aggressively two years ago or a year and a half ago in truck in USA Today,
BY LUCIA MOSES the expectation that they would be able to take advan¬ E&P has learned.
s THE RECENT SPATE OF ONLINE LAYOFFS BY tage of the stock market’s love affair with the Internet The ads in those
several major newspaper companies shows, is now' a likely company to be cutting back.” two national papers
marketplace realities are setting in fast. These companies deny that they’ve lost any confi- today mark the begin¬
Last week, the New York dence in their Internet busi- ning of weekly ads,
Times Co. announced it would I nesses, and, in fact, several say either full-page or
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cut 69 positions, or 17%, across they don’t plan to cut staff or double-truck, in those
its Web sites to meet its goal of 'IIHI % . ^ change direction in their online two papers in coming
achieving profitabUity by 2002. , I divisions. months.
In the past three months, two B o ^4 Dow Jones & Co. Inc., which The campaign also
other aggressive spenders on the ^ ^ g|y has successfully been charging will include broadcast
Internet, Tribune Co. I for online news subscriptions, and cable TV, maga¬
Knight Ridder, said they were <1^1 said it continues to stay focused zines, outdoor, radio,
trimming their online staffs by ^ « on growth, not profit, in the point-of-sale, direct
80 and 34, respectively. And Ru- — iiitn ^ 1 short term. The same goes for mail, and online.
pert Murdoch’s News Corp. me- \jf the Washington Post Co., which The firm was
dia conglomerate said it would r, historically runs its business for expected to carry
close its online subsidiary alto- K the long term, even though out local promotions,
gether, eliminating 200 jobs. In I i heavy spending online has taken which could include
addition, the economic down- a toil on quarterly earnings. That local newspaper
turn has put scores of people at I tack m2ikes sense to Thomas advertising.
other news sites, including Sa- K | Russo, a partner in Gardner Cingular Wireless,
lon.com, TheStreet.com, and I Russo Gardner, Lancaster, Pa., a with 20 million
TheStandard.com, out of work, I stake-holder in the company. customers in 38
“Newspapers are doing what ^ “After all the dust settles, they states, was formed
everyone in Web land is doing: have extremely valuable content by BellSouth and SBC
ONE rationalizing their business to get them closer to they can deliver in a variety of ways, and one of those Communications.
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AVI over, either. iTie pressure to stanch red ink showed at New York Times Co. canceled its plemned initial pub-
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New York and Atlanta- lie offering for its digital unit after Wall Street soured an IPO gave traditional companies a way to attract
based BBDO South, on the dot-coms. Dallas-based Belo, after separating young, hip workers.
will use the tag line, its online unit, is now moving toward reintegrating it But the dot-coms lost their flavor as investors
“What do you have with its newspaper and broadcast businesses, said came to their senses. Overinflated valuations
to say?” Jim Morony, president of Belo Interactive. tanked, and the virus quickly spread to the rest of
- JOE NICHOLSON Investments in online companies are getting a sec¬ the business world. As fears of a recession mount,
ond look, too. The Times Co. sold most of its stake in the advertising outlook for this year is turning in¬
THE‘EX'FILES; TheStreet.com. At Belo, Morony said, “We’re going to creasingly grim. So newspaper companies, casting
do a lot less investing in Internet startups in the com¬ about for places to make cuts — and realizing that
3 IN AND 10UT ing year.” Dow Jones spokesman Richard Tofel pre¬ the Internet hasn’t turned out to be as big a threat to
T dicted that some news sites, which now give away their core business as initially feared — are landing
he down-but-not- their content, might start to imitate The Wall Street on their online divisions.
out San Francisco Journal model and start charging for online news. Martha Stone, an online news consultant based in
Examiner is forging Once, it was acceptable to lose money on the Web. the Chicago area, worries that the slimmed-down
on with three more Wall Street nodded in approval as newspaper com¬ news sites will have less original content and fewer
features and one less panies, fearful of being seen as dinosaurs, flung mil¬ multimedia features — the very attractions that
advertiser. lions to build an online presence and acquire stakes make them valuable. “Most news sites aren’t inno¬
New Editor in in fledgling Internet companies. Web operations vating, and now they’re really not innovating,” she
Chief David Burgin were separated into stand-alone divisions, lest they said. “I think this medium has huge potential, and as
announced the three be dragged down by the association with old ink-on- more and more people get broadband, this medium
features that made paper, with the goal of going public. The prospect of ... will become extremely compelling.” 11
their debuts last week.
Among them is a col¬
Denver JOA:‘Full speed ahead’
umn by RJ. Corkery,
which Burgin called
“the return to San
Francisco newspaper-
ing of the great Ess Eff
tradition of three-dot Business as unusual in Mile High City own editorial page, it
column-writing.” Healing Begins should look much like
Meanwhile, Macy's, BY JOEL DAVIS professor and associate it does now.
perhaps the paper’s SACRAMENTO, CALIF. dean who is an expert on “We do it in York,
most notable advertis¬ U:•.S . Attorney JOAs. Leonard said the Pennsylvania, the
er, is no longer placing Janet Reno’s U.S. Department of Jus¬ same way,” Singleton
ads with the Examiner, approval last tice (DOJ) is known for said of the JOA be¬
which got off to a week of the joint operat¬ rubber-stamping such tween The York Dis¬
shaky start when the ing agreement (JOA) deals. “In light patch and the York
Fang family took it between The Denver Post I of DOJ actions sDenver Roc^ Mounj^ News Daily Record, which
over in November. and the Denver Rocky j of the past, they Reno approves JOA have a similar
However, a source Mountain News was as I rarely see a weekend arrange¬
familiar with the surprising as winter i JOA they don’t ment. “York was
relationship between snow in Colorado. j bless,” he noted, our model.”
j
Macy’s and the Exam¬ Reno found the News The Post News Editor
iner told E&P that the to be a failing paper and j andtheE.W. John Temple and
department-store said it met the criteria of i ScrippsCo.- Post Editor Glenn
chain had a contract the 1970 Newspaper ' owned News The Rocky and Guzzo are plan¬
the Post will
with the newspaper Preservation Act. are expected to combine busi¬ ning to appear in
that expired at the “We expected that it implement the ness operations a print-and-
end of last year, and is would be approved, and JOA in March this spring. broadcast ad
negotiating a new it was approved, and i and April. While they I tion. It will co-opt many campaign to explain
contract for this year. we’re working full speed I will combine business I of its regular features how the JOA will work.
- JOEL DAVIS ahead to implementa¬ I operations under the i in its current Sunday Although the JOA will
tion,” said William Dean i JOA, they will maintain i paper and will feature create some overlapping
Singleton, president and j separate editorial de- its own editorial page positions, the Post has
CEO of the Posfs parent I partments that will plus one editorial page reported that the jobs of
COMES T0N.Y. MediaNews Group Inc. combine on weekends from the Post. all 3,800 employees eu’e
M It’s a sentiment shared in a broadsheet format. ; The Post will publish secure until 2003, with
elville, N.Y.- by Thomas C. Leonard, a (The News will remain a ; the merged Sunday any cuts coming through
based Newsday University of California tabloid on weekdays.) i paper. Other than an buyouts and attrition,
is beginning to think at Berkeley Graduate The News will put I editorial page from the which Singleton con¬
School of Journalism out the Saturday edi- ! News to go along with its firmed, albeit testily.
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“We’ve said this before, Rocky who does exactly Cochran said. “In the resulted in a money¬ “TV.” The 576,345-
and I’m not going to say what I do. [Wjhat does days when there was just losing and circulation¬ circulation daily is in
it again,” he said. that mean? What causes a conservative and liber¬ losing situation. Why the early stages of
Such reassurances me to stay up late is not al newspaper in the city, should the Newspaper implementing a con¬
have not neces¬ I knowing.” that was one issue. Now Preservation Act be used tent-sharing plan with
sarily given I JOAs have there’s 500 cable chan¬ to reward them?” sister Tribune Co.
everyone in¬ I their critics, nels, every school child Within JOA partner¬ property WPIX Chan¬
volved peace of I and there is no can access the Web, and ships, the stronger paper nel 11 of New York.
mind, however. : shortage of every street comer has often views the weaker Installing cameras
“It’s not them in Den¬ 20 news boxes on it.” as a sort of sick, distant in the Newsday news¬
about job pro¬ ver. H. Harri¬ Cfx:hran, who wrote relative that should be room is “the next
tection. That’s son Cochran, to Reno requesting hear¬ euthanized. But Single- notable step” in a
been promised publisher the ings on the JOA, added ton said everything is program expected to
W. Dean Singleton
to us,” Cassan- Aurora Sen¬ that the News should not happening for the best be launched later this
dra Thornton, a President/CEO tinel, a subur¬ be saved because it made in Denver. year, a Newsday
Post advertising MediaNews ban Denver bad business decisions: “It was best to pre¬ spokesman said. The
representative, told the weekly, says the 1970 “They are in a \ibrant serve two voices,” he two media companies
paper. “The real ques¬ Newspaper Preservation city and had a 100,000- said. “We have no regrets combined efforts to
tions are: How is my job Act, which enables circulation lead in the about that choice. We conduct three political
going to change? And JOAs, is outdated. “It beginning of the 1990s. think Colorado will be polls last fall. Results
will I have the same job? was for ensuring inde¬ They made several deci¬ well-served by two voic¬ of the polls appeared
There is someone at the pendent editorial voices,” sions of their own which es.” 11 on air at WPIX, in
Newsday, and on
We work, ergolnomics) we are Web sites of both
operations.
In addition, there
has already been “a
lot of cross promo¬
tion,” the spokesman
OSHA rules hit the books Tuesday es at the NAA, which represents more than 2,000 said. - STEVE YAHN
newspapers. NAA members “are going to rely on us
A for fiU-in-the-blank ergonomics programs” that com¬ ‘COUeAKT'lS
BY TODD SHIELDS ply with the new requirements, Hensel said.
s THE ERGONOMICS MAVEN FOR THE NeWS- The rules, in the making for nearly a decade, rank INTOCABLETV
paper Association of America (NAA), Don¬ among the most far-reaching in a blizzard of late- T
ald Hensel is a busy guy, traveling to term regulations issued by the outgoing administra¬ he Hartford
different newspapers to lend advice on how to load tion of President Clinton. The U.S. Labor Department (Conn.) Courant
bundles, stuff"inserts, or type stories with the fewest estimates that complying with the rules will cost is crossing corporate
injuries possible. employers $4.5 bil¬ boundaries and media
Hensel thinks de¬ lion annually, while to create a partnership
mand for his talents bringing $9-1 billion with New England
will only grow. The rea¬ yearly in health-care Cable News (NECN),
son: federal rules that savings and other a 24-hour all-news
enter the books on benefits. cable channel.
Tuesday will require all The rules are The newsrooms will
private employers — meant to forestall be linked by fiber¬
including newspapers the lower-back and optic transmission
— to follow a potential¬ repetitive-stress in¬ lines so Courant
ly complex and costly juries that together reporters and editors
regimen to avoid work¬ account for about a can do live cablecasts.
place injuries from re¬ third of all work¬ The Courant’s ctnow-
peated stress. place injuries. The .com Web site will
Employers are not 1.9‘K) 1991 1.992 1,99.'5 1.994 19,9.'* 19.96 li)97 1.99S 19.9.9 Occupational Safety have access to
required to comply Source: U.S. Department of Latxrr, Bureau of Latxrr Statistics and Health Admin¬ NECN’s video, while
with the new ergonomics standard until Oct. 15. In istration, which issued the rules, said they will prevent the paper expects to
the meantime, opponents will be asking courts. Con¬ about 4.6 million injuries over 10 years. benefit from the net¬
gress, and the executive branch itself to void the rules. Organized labor applauded OSHAs move, and work’s news-gathering
But those efforts may fail, and newspapers, like other pledges a battle to preserve the rules. “It’s something force in parts of New
employers, are preparing to live with the new rules. [we’ve] been fighting for, for about two decades,” said England outside its
“We’re going to have to gear up immediately,” said Candice Johnson, spokeswoman for the Communica¬ circulation region.
Hensel, manager for environmental and safety servic- tions Workers of America, parent of The Newspaper
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The Courant, a Guild. “There are thousands of workers who suffer However, their main gambit will be to ask Congress j
Tribune Co. paper, these injuries every year, and these can be prevented.” to block the rules using a regulatory review mecha- |
will continue its video Critics say OSHA’s cost estimates are too low, and nism that has never before been exercised. 1
affiliation with Trib- contend the rules impose onerous conditions. For Newspaper executives say the industry has moved I i
owned Fox 61/WTIC- example, employers would need to conduct a time- to prevent injuries by instituting training and in- i |
TV in Hartford. consuming check for compliance with ergonomic stalling new equipment, such as adjustable worksta- |'
- WAYNE ROBINS standards if even one worker complains of a covered tions. Statistics suggest these efforts may have borne j
injury. This requirement for action without a med¬ fruit, but that newspaper workers — from the news- I:
‘METeO'PICKS ical diagnosis led the American College of Occupa¬ room to the circulation desk to the loading dock — 11
tional and Environmental Medicine to withdraw its are at greater risk for repetitive-stress injuries than |
UP PUBLISHER support for the regulation. most workers (see chart, p. 7)-
P More than a dozen lawsuits already have been Union leaders concede there has been improve¬
hiladelphia’s filed against the rules. No court decision is expected ment at newspapers — but argue more is needed. I
Metro, which before early 2002, according to the National Coali¬ “They’ve been getting better,” said Linda Foley, pres- j
made history as the tion on Ergonomics, an ad hoc consortium of groups ident of The Newspaper Guild. But, she added, “Cer- | j
city's free transit pa¬ fighting the standards. Meanwhile, opponents may tainly there are newspapers where the situation is j
per pioneer, for the ask OSHA to agree not to enforce the standard. not what it should be.” H I
first time is reaching
into the ranks of
another alternative Cipriano settles with the ‘Ink/
publishing category.
The quick-read paper
hired as its publisher
James McDonald, A
who held the same BY JOE STRUPP quoted Rosenthal as say¬ ly after filing the lawsuit. claiming much of it had
position at the HIGHLY UNUSUAL ing, “There were things Kurtz’s story appeared already appeared in the
alternative Phila¬ libel case — a re¬ we didn’t publish that after Cipriano publicly newspaper.
delphia Weekly. porter sued his Ralph wrote that we criticized the paper for Cipriano told E^P
McDonald said own editor — ended this didn’t think were truth¬ refusing to print some that he planned to con¬
the two models both month when Ralph ful. He could nev¬ articles he tinue his recent work as
share a low-cost Cipriano, who covered er prove them.” had written a free-lance writer in
structure and appeal religion for The Philadel¬ Cipriano, 47, about the Philadelphia — and did
to younger readers, a phia Inquirer, agreed to claimed Rosen- archdio¬ not rule out reporting on
segment that's elud¬ settle the lawsuit with cese, spe¬ the archdiocese.
ed traditional dailies. his former employer cifically Attorneys for PNI,
He replaced Dave for an undisclosed informa¬ owned by Knight Rid-
Munch, who moved amount. tion about der, declined to com¬
to a job at Metro’s Philadelphia News¬ the spend¬ ment on the case. But
corporate parent. papers Inc. (PNI), par¬ ing habits Rosenthal, who had not
- LUCIA MOSES ent of the Inquirer and of Cardinal Anthony J. denied making the dis¬
Philadelphia Daily Bevilacqua, which paraging comments, ex¬
PULITZER INC. News, announced the some said placed pri¬ pressed his apologies. “I
settlement with Cipri¬ ority on enhancing the regret my remarks, and
eOESOFELINE ano Jan. 5. In a joint facilities and lifestyles that we weren’t able to
P statement, both par¬ of priests at the same resolve this in a way oth¬
ulitzer Inc. is ties said Cipriano had time church schools er than litigation,” he
dropping its agreed to drop his suit were being closed in said in a statement. “But
Internet service — scheduled to go to poor neighborhoods. I am happy we have
provider (ISP) busi¬ trial in March — in ex¬ “Everything I wrote been able to put this
nesses in St. Louis change for damages was true. That’s really matter behind us.”
and Tucson, Ariz., reported to be as high Editor Robert J. Rosenthal and the bottom line,” Cipri¬ Kurtz said he was sur¬
where the company as $7 million. reporter Ralph Cipriano (inset) ano told E^P. He prised that his story
jointly runs StarNet The suit stemmed j thal’s comments were wrote a lengthy article would lead to such a
with Gannett Co. Inc. from comments Inquirer defaming and filed suit for the National Catholic lawsuit, but commended
Company officials in Editor Robert J. Rosen¬ in August 1998, initially Reporter in 1998 with Rosenthal for not back¬
both cities said the thal made to Washing¬ seeking $50,000 in much of the information ing away from his com¬
local ISP business ton Post media writer damages. An 11-year he contends the Inquirer ments, saying, “I
has become highly Howard Kurtz about Inquirer veteran who declined to print. appreciate that fact.” II
competitive. Cipriano’s coverage of also had worked at the Rosenthal has defend¬
The business has the Catholic Archdiocese Los Angeles Times, ed the decision not to Reporting contributed
of PhiladelphieL Kurtz Cipriano was fired short¬ publish the information. by Joe Nicholson
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