Word: newsroom
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...Ithaca College journalism professors told her, "There's no place for broads in broadcasting." So she worked her way up from radio disc jockey and newsreader to TV reporter and local anchor in Houston and Philadelphia; she put in 16-hour days to eliminate any chance that newsroom chauvinists could tag her as an electronic bunny...
...struggle for that scoop is only a minor episode in a far more epic battle: the one between Millstein and the national editor for the job of editor in chief. Indeed, to the Newspaper's scribblers, nearly every event in the newsroom, and in the world at large, is important only in terms of office intrigue. "When the copy editors crossed your commas out, people made an interpretation of your standing vis-a-vis Ron and of Ron's standing vis-a-vis [the national editor] and of both their standings in the eyes of [the editor...
...story opens with an endearingly manic-depressive editor who leaps naked from an eleventh-floor window before it can be determined whether the man resembles either A.M. Rosenthal or Arthur Gelb. The event touches off a torrid competition for the newly vacant editorship among a B-movie cast of newsroom characters: the likable but alcoholic deputy managing editor, the sober but inexperienced female national editor, the experienced but unpolished Jewish city editor, the polished but unassertive Wasp foreign editor, the assertive but black Washington bureau chief. Why do they want a job that helped drive the incumbent to suicide...
...craft about U.S. newspapers to qualify the reader for a diploma from the Annenberg School of Communication at Penn. Around a wheezing plot about a young investigative reporter trying to get the Big Story (a U.S. Congressman turns out to be-gasp!-corrupt), Ryan writes knowledgeably about libel law, newsroom computerization, labor disputes, inheritance taxes and galleys of other forces threatening to turn American newspapers into bland copies of one another...
...would become NBC'S sole anchor if John Chancellor stepped down. Later Mudd agreed to share the job to help NBC keep Brokaw. For his pains, Mudd was reassigned to what he does as well as nearly anyone else in television, political reporting. He announced his ouster to newsroom colleagues last Tuesday. Nothing was said on the show that night about the shift, because Frank anticipated "an awkward moment, whether Mudd or Brokaw reported it." Afterward, however, Mudd allowed that he had longed to close the show with the ironic salutation, "Good night from all of them...