Thursday, January 15, 2009

No new USAT editor yet? How about hiring . . .

[Daydream team: Tina Brown, current Publisher Moon]

This afternoon, I felt like a Vatican correspondent in St. Peter's Square, waiting for a puff of white smoke to signal a new pope -- or, in this case, replacement for top USA Today editor Ken Paulson, leaving for Freedom Forum, Feb. 1.

But it was only black smoke from the USAT Tower in McLean, Va., when the regular monthly newsroom staff meeting adjourned, news-less. So, let's gather in our Gallup groups, and daydream about game-changing hires Publisher Craig Moon might soon make -- no matter how unlikely. I'll start our provocative list with:
Now, it's your turn: Please post replies in the comments section, below. E-mail confidentially via gannettblog[at]gmail[dot-com]; see Tipsters Anonymous Policy in the green sidebar, upper right.

8 comments:

  1. Arianna Huffington...

    Al Neuharth....

    David Plouffe...

    Jim Hopkins...

    Pankaj Paul...

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  2. How about Jim Bellows, former editor of the NY Herald-Tribune, the Washington Star, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner; and on the early internet Excite and Prodigy; and on TV Entertainment Tonight and ABC World News Tonight... and so much more. And, oh yeah, USA Today on TV (over which he sued Gannett big time).

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  3. I thought you were promoting Tara. How fickle now to dream about Tina Brown. You must have this thing about over-the-hill matrons.

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  4. Surely there are some folks at USAT who have seen incoming candidates over the past week or two. Anyone?

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  5. That 'Daily Beast' thing? Panning out.

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  6. Does Gannett teach those "SHIT EATING" grins that the gods wear for there photo's?

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  7. Tina Brown?

    We already have enough editors who think they are Tina Brown and are producing boring features sections or snoozefest local magazines.

    And get their photos as photoshopped as Brown's.

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