That's Tom Curley (left), who as USA Today's publisher was once in line to succeed CEO Doug McCorkindale. And, really, he was telling the newspaper industry to stop pining for the old days. "The first thing that has to go is the attitude," Curley told a fundraising dinner last night "Our institutional arrogance has done more to harm us than any portal."Curley is now CEO of the Associated Press -- a job he took four years ago after, don't you suppose, McCorkindale and the board told him he would not get the top job. In the end, it went to Craig Dubow.
Curley told a different story about leaving Gannett in a short essay earlier this year in the New York Times. "I didn’t want to turn 60 and be about woulda, coulda, shoulda. I wanted to participate fully in the digital change in the media, so I joined The Associated Press in 2003,'' he wrote.
Even if that's not the full story, it seems odd that Curley felt he had to leave the nation's biggest newspaper publisher to experience the wonders of 21st-century publishing.
[Photo: Associated Press]
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