Word: newsrooms
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Equal Employment Opportunity Commission chairman for the Atlantic. In recent TV appearances Williams suggested that Hill's charges against Thomas, who is now a friend, were baseless. Shortly after he wrote his op-ed-page piece, Williams was told by Post assistant managing editor Tom Wilkinson of the newsroom-harassment charges, which Williams claims involved only a few innocent "jokes." In what the Post admits was an administrative lapse, Meg Greenfield, who edits the op-ed page, was not informed by either Wilkinson or executive editor Leonard Downie of Williams' potential conflict. That his piece ran with no mention...
James F. Hoge did some despicable things as publisher of the strike-ridden work for compromise. He stationed guards in the newsroom. It's said that he even brought in some guard dogs to keep Daily News employees away from the printing presses. Pretty fascist for a newspaper publisher...