Word: newsroomful
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...almost better to be rejected for bad reasons than to be told, "Dear Intern Applicant...our program is highly competitive as is the environment in the newsroom. The finalists who have been selected generally exhibit more experience, both in writing and reporting, on a professional level. I encourage you to pursue a job at another paper where there may be opportunities for you." Ouch...
...highest honor in the profession. The book tells the story of the Times women, from McCormick in the 1920s, who was hired after the death of Times founding publisher Adolph Ochs (who had refused to hire women while he was alive), to the women of the present. The newsroom which Robertson entered in 1955 was one entirely unwilling to help her realize her dreams; the few women who were allowed into the Times, she tells, were relegated to the women's pages--regardless of their background or interests--and assigned to stories covering food, fashion and family...
...HEADLINE NEWS: For coming within a nanosecond of swallowing a phony report that Bush had died; to his credit, a CNN worker threw caution to the winds, shouting "No! Stop! Stop!" in the newsroom as anchor Don Harrison began to announce the "tragic news involving President Bush...
...Turner may be the only one who ever thought CNN could come so far so fast. When Turner first launched the upstart 24-hour news operation in 1980, under the guidance of its brilliant but volatile president Reese Schonfeld, it had a staff of 300 and a newsroom tucked into the basement of a converted country club. Technical flubs were common: on the very first hour of CNN's first day, a story about baseball star Reggie Jackson was cut short when the transmission from New York suddenly went dead...
...terms of the content of what was said, that has to remain between colleagues in the newsroom," he said...