Morning report
To explain, not excuse: 14 min of 18 in Akin intv. had gone by, hadn’t touched econ. I pulled a Larry King, wasn’t 100% listening. F’d up.
— charlesjaco (@charlesjaco) August 19, 2012
* More Jaco: “Mea culpa. I should have challenged Akin on abortion/rape. No excuse.” (@charlesjaco)
* Politico reporter blasted after defending Rep. Todd Akin. (washingtonpost.com)
* Robert Kaiser’s 20-year-old memo about digital media “is a striking document, even today.” (recoveringjournalist.com)
* Why GQ is running a 4,000-word excerpt of the Joe Paterno bio. (wwd.com)
* David Carr: “The now ancient routes to credibility at small magazines and newspapers — toiling in menial jobs while learning the business — have been wiped out.” (nytimes.com)
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* Darren Rovell explains his jump from CNBC to ESPN. (shermanreport.com)
* HuffPost Live launch has “really gone better than I had hoped,” says exec. (adage.com)
* Obama adviser says People and Entertainment Tonight are “equally important” as the national political press. (washingtonpost.com)
* Time managing editor says Fareed Zakaria will recover from his plagiarism scandal. (nytimes.com)
* University of Georgia Red & Black publisher apologizes for altercation at meeting. (onlineathens.com) | (redanddead.com)
* Miami Herald series exposing “gut-wrenching epidemic of elder abuses and deaths” in Florida wins the 2012 Heywood Broun Award. (newsguild.org)
* Arizona Republic editor’s column about looming paywall “never directly acknowledges prices are going up.”
(gannettblog.blogspot.com)
