Word: newsroom
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...vortex that is the Crimson's production shop, overhearing the latest reports on the American hostages Iran via the newspaper's excise for a black and white TV. Three friends were checking the dispatches clicking over the old Associated Press wire machine in the sky we call the newsroom. They roused professors in the middle of the night, just in case. A paste up that went up on the production hay as the day dawned. In hours, it was filled with typeset copy and headlines and then the sky turned black again...
...small Minneapolis TV newsroom was dark with disuse when the old gang-Mary Richards and Lou Grant, Murray Slaughter and Sue Ann Nivens, Ted and Georgette Baxter-came back one last time for reminiscence and rue. As clusters of the faithful were doing in living rooms and the classier pubs across the country, the WJM team had assembled to lament the untimely passing of some fine old friends: Louie De Palma, Doctor Johnny Fever, Detective Harris, Mork from Ork. With a few swipes of TV executives' pens, four of the best comedy series of the late 1970s-Taxi, WKRP...
...demise of the Star signaled the failure of two widely noted experiments by its editor since 1978, Stephen Isaacs, 44, a longtime Washington Post staffer. Isaacs' "newsroom democracy" relied on committees of editorial employees to examine everything from working conditions to the basic personality of the paper. With nudging from Isaacs, the committees then decided that the Star should drop its emphasis on hard news in favor of a magazine-style format, with lots of light, pictorial features and long interpretive reports on issues such as the labor movement in the auto industry. To critics who wanted more traditional...
Douglas-Home had become disenchanted with Evans. Yet, in a newsroom speech last week he lauded Evans' "conspicuous contribution" and insisted there should be no division between the paper's old guard...
...wash all that away in a tide of righteousness. According to a CBN promotion tape, Scott Davidson, quondam hero of CBN's flagship soap opera, Another Life, is not only a media analyst and anchorman of the "7 O'Clock News," he is "unique in the newsroom. Once he was a cynic, like his colleagues a man who was spiritually empty. That's changed. Faith has given Scott the strength to go beyond reporting. Now he gets involved...