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...duty that quiet Friday night in the newsroom of WHMA-TV, Channel 40, the only TV station in Anniston, Ala. (pop. 29,500), were a woman office worker and Photographer Ronald Simmons, 30, and Sound Technician Gary Harris, 18. Both men had been up since early morning covering a high school basketball tournament...
...laborer who had a history of instability. On the night he telephoned his threat or plea to WHMA, he was staggering drunk. Andrews was apparently near the Jacksonville square (actually, a green rectangle bordered by shops and the city's police and fire stations) when he phoned the TV newsroom three times within half an hour. He was there when Simmons and Harris arrived and set up their lights and camera, more than an hour after Andrews' original call. The police insist that they and volunteer firemen combed the area, but were unable to spot any sign of a potential...
...management has made a commitment to bring blacks into the mainstream." Blacks hold 19 of 234 editorial staff jobs at the Courier-Journal and its sister daily, the afternoon Louisville Times; the minority representation of 8.5% at the two papers (including one Hispanic) compares favorably with a national newsroom average of 5.5%. But as Aubespin's story illustrates, even after minority journalists get hired, they face enduring problems in trying to win the professional trust of their colleagues...
...immediate moratorium on the production and development of nuclear weapons the largest referendum in American history. The disarmament movements has gained a staggering amount of political strength nationwide in the last year, only to discover that its most dangerous and elusive loss turn out to be in the newsroom, not the Pentagon...
Unlike This Morning's hectic newsroom set, which clashes oddly with the scene it leads into, the laid-back living room of Good Morning America, NBC's expanded Today used approximately the same cast on the same set. The only visible change last week was the less than exuberant mood of Co-Anchor Bryant Gumbel. Though he was given additional pay for having to rise at 4:30 a.m., Gumbel told TIME: "I don't think anybody in his right mind would choose to get up earlier and work more. But I was not going...