Uber-blogger, editrix and former California gubernatorial hopeful Arianna Huffington was on a roll Thursday, when she was a panelist for the “Lessons from the Digital Revolution” session.
In her distinctive Greek accent, Huffington put forth on racy topics from promiscuity to ADD.
On comparisons between online and print: “The debate about is it online or is it print is so obsolete to me. It’s like the old bar-room argument: Ginger vs. Maryann. Let’s have a three-way.”
On Huffington Post staff: “It’s young in spirit. I mean, I’m clearly not young. My partner (co-founder Kenneth Lerer) and I are in our 50’s. It’s not a matter of chronological age but how young their spirit is.”
Huffington also said blogs have obsessive compulsive disorder (they compulsively analyze news) while the mainstream media has attention deficit disorder (they get distracted quickly by other stories and abandon current ones).
- By Tiffany Hsu / ASNE Reporter
Thursday, March 29, 2007
A quick word of advice ...
A gathering of the nation's top newspaper editors is sure to yield some excellent advice. But I would not have expected to hear the following from journalism heavyweight, Allan Siegal, former assistant managing editor of The New York Times.
“Never approach somebody when they are walking at a brisk pace towards the bathroom,” Siegal said.
- By NOELLE LINDSAY / ASNE Reporter
“Never approach somebody when they are walking at a brisk pace towards the bathroom,” Siegal said.
- By NOELLE LINDSAY / ASNE Reporter
Editors get star-struck too
The ASNE schedule is full of celebrity speakers, so we asked editors who they were most excited to meet. Ken Tingley, editor of the Post Star of Glen Falls, N.Y., would really like to meet Bud Selig, Commissioner of Major League Baseball.
“I would like to talk to Bud Selig about his opinion on the whole steroids thing,” says Tingley.
Allan Siegal, former assistant managing editor for The New York Times, was looking forward to hearing Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speak.
“I've heard Justice Breyer in the past, and I admire him very much as man,” says Siegal.
Kenneth F. Bunting, associate publisher for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, hit the sports fan’s jackpot when he was able to spend some time with a well known football mogul.
“I met Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys,” says Bunting. The two mainly talked about the Texas team's new season.
But do the guest speakers really consider themselves “celebrities”? Chris Harte, chairman of the Star Tribune (Minneapolis), doesn’t.
“I'm a guest speaker, but I am definitely not a celebrity,” says Harte.
By NOELLE LINDSAY and REGINA GRAVES / ASNE reporter
“I would like to talk to Bud Selig about his opinion on the whole steroids thing,” says Tingley.
Allan Siegal, former assistant managing editor for The New York Times, was looking forward to hearing Associate Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer speak.
“I've heard Justice Breyer in the past, and I admire him very much as man,” says Siegal.
Kenneth F. Bunting, associate publisher for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, hit the sports fan’s jackpot when he was able to spend some time with a well known football mogul.
“I met Jerry Jones, owner of the Dallas Cowboys,” says Bunting. The two mainly talked about the Texas team's new season.
But do the guest speakers really consider themselves “celebrities”? Chris Harte, chairman of the Star Tribune (Minneapolis), doesn’t.
“I'm a guest speaker, but I am definitely not a celebrity,” says Harte.
By NOELLE LINDSAY and REGINA GRAVES / ASNE reporter
ASNE takes the 'man' out of 'chairman'
This morning's bylaws meeting was literally the ASNE event of the decade. According to ASNE Executive Director Scott Bosley, members hadn't met for a bylaws revision since the early 90s.
At that last meeting, a fit of feminism struck members, who rooted out what they saw as the remains of a male-run era from the language of the bylaws, first adopted in 1922.
Well, all but one. This time, more than 40 early risers in the basement meeting room performed some major copy editing, changing "chairman" to "chair."
All in favor, say, "Yea."
- APRIL YEE / ASNE Reporter
At that last meeting, a fit of feminism struck members, who rooted out what they saw as the remains of a male-run era from the language of the bylaws, first adopted in 1922.
Well, all but one. This time, more than 40 early risers in the basement meeting room performed some major copy editing, changing "chairman" to "chair."
All in favor, say, "Yea."
- APRIL YEE / ASNE Reporter
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