In the mix: Jack Curry interviewed new NBC Today show co-hosts Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford in July 2008. (Far left, deputy photo editor Sarah Claxton.)Tipsters don't say why Executive Editor Jack Curry left the Sunday supplement, which circulates 23 million copies in more than 600 newspapers. Rival Parade claims 33 million in nearly 500 papers.
Curry's departure means both USA Weekend and USA Today are now without top news executives; Feb. 1, USAT's Ken Paulson left to become president of Freedom Forum foundation.Curry joined the magazine more than eight years ago, telling an interviewer at the time: "The challenge we face, and it’s the same challenge we faced at TV Guide, is how to maintain our core readers, who are getting older, while at the same time bringing in the next generation of readers."
'Watchmen' trailer
The film opens Thursday; it's the current USA Weekend cover story.
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I wonder about the former ''FAMILY WEEKLY", which became USAT WEEKEND. Do you think CBS would want it back?
ReplyDeleteHuh. I always wondered who that guy was -- I used to run into him in the cafeteria. Seemed friendly. I think I speak for many of us who work in McLean when I say that I have no idea where USA Weekend's offices are, who its staff is, or how many people work for them.
ReplyDeleteEven when Paulson was at USAT he wasn't really...if you know what I mean. A lot of things that shouldn't have happened did under his watch.
ReplyDeleteActually, if USAT is just going to hire figurehead editors, they should just save the money and let the same lame old MEs and DMEs run the joint.
Go without an editor. No one will notice. It's not like USAT has had any sort of feasible, let alone inspirational leadership in years.
Hmmm... another reminder that USA TODAY is "without."
ReplyDeleteI wonder if that announcement will come, er, let's say sometime in the next three days?
Where's that string of guesses on who the new editor will be? Those were some very entertaining guesses.
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Looks like Tara is getting another hunk of GCI under her new wing. The magazine already is advertorial, so it won't make much of a change.
ReplyDeleteD'ya think this has anything to do with shitcanning Open Air? It has been looking really sick, and only had five pages of ads in the last 44-page issue. I doubt if it will be missed.
ReplyDeleteOpen Air hasn't been "shitcanned" yet.
ReplyDelete@10:23 - USAW is on the 2nd floor, Gannett tower. Only about 30 or so people left in the VA office. Others are in NY and other states.
ReplyDeleteUSAW is on the way out, in my opinion. It has been a thin 16 pages for weeks, and many newspapers are starting to cancell it outside of Gannett.
ReplyDeleteNo big loss, either.
I read USAWeekend's "Watchmen" story. It was 10 inches of total crap.
ReplyDelete12:59, Isn't everything thin these days?
ReplyDeleteI hope its not canned. What people don't realize is out of the brand, USA Weekend is helping keep USAT afloat.
ReplyDeleteIts no mystery why he left. He couldn't stand Bullard.....everyone at Weekend knew it.
A job poisting for a new EE there popped up a week or so ago, I noticed.
ReplyDeleteKiss Weekend good bye. It's a waste of money.
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