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...Fortune appears opposite the second half-hour of WBBM's 6 p.m. news show) and its vastly improved news programs have further siphoned off WBBM's audience. The CBS station has also been bedeviled by internal squabbling so severe that a shoving match once broke out in the newsroom. If Jackson and PUSH spread their campaign to other stations and take the pressure off WBBM, Rodgers may discover that dealing with the reverend was easy compared with attracting rating points from Nielsen...
...that only made Janeway seem indecisive. Tensions rose over Janeway's strong interest in national and foreign news and the equally strong desire of Driscoll to play up local stories. Though the Globe covered Boston as thoroughly under Janeway as it had under Winship, the perception grew in the newsroom that the paper's editor preferred reading about the French elections to following a councilman's race in east Boston...
...antidrug programs is growing, some workers feel that their companies are going too far. At the Kansas City Star and Times, two newspapers owned by Capital Cities/ABC, employees were stunned in January when management proposed to use narcotics-sniffing dogs as part of an experimental antidrug effort. Though newsroom wags passed around dog biscuits, most employees were in no mood to laugh. They felt that using the dogs would be an implicit accusation and an unwarranted and heavy-handed action. After heated staff protests, Capital Cities/ABC backed down and called off the experiment...
...McLaughlin, formerly chief of a large corporation, receives any praise these days, it's from those who are impressed by the growth of the college's endowment. Yet a chart in The Dartmouth's newsroom (see photo above) reveals the widespread dissatisfaction among both faculty and administrators--many of whom have left since McLaughlin's 1981 arrival...
...appointed himself editor, he is looking for someone to fill the newly created post of executive editor. McCulloch turned the job down but agreed to run day-to-day operations until the slot is filled. Hearst dismisses any suggestion that if he insists on ultimate control of the newsroom he may have trouble finding a successor to Burgin. "I give as free a hand as there is in journalism today," he says. "Ultimately, I could stay ) home in a bathtub and phone in ideas. If that works, great." But lolling in the suds does not seem to be his style...