Regret the Error

A few misfires found their way into the September/October issue. In Terry A. Dalton’s piece on Mike Pride, an editor added a phrase asserting that Pride started his thirty-year career at the Concord Monitor on the sports desk. In fact, he started at the Monitor as the managing editor, and had been a sports writer earlier in his career at The Tampa Tribune, among other papers. In that article, we also reported that Felice Belman had left the Monitor three times for jobs at bigger dailies, only to be lured back to Concord. One of those times she left to work on a gubernatorial campaign.
In Steve Wasserman’s bio at the end of the cover story, “Goodbye to All That,” we should have mentioned in the interest of full disclosure that among Wasserman’s clients at the literary agency Kneerim & Williams at Fish & Richardson is the Columbia Journalism Review.
In that same piece, we reported that the books editor of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution had been “shunted aside” in a reconfiguration of the newspaper’s arts coverage, and that book reviews had been “largely replaced” with wire copy. As explored in a piece by Julia M. Klein on page 40, the entire paper was being reconfigured, not just arts, and many jobs were altered. The books editor in fact resigned rather than reapply for the new books job, she says, because she did not like the direction books coverage was heading. The AJC’S current coverage includes more column inches on books and authors than in the past, though a substantial minority of book criticism is from wire services.
In his profile of Josh Marshall and Talking Points Memo, David Glenn wrote that TPM “was almost single-handedly responsible for bringing the story of the fired U.S. Attorneys to a boil.” This assertion ignores some important work done on the story by McClatchy Newspapers’ D.C. bureau.
And finally, we regret that we spelled Catherine Zeta-Jones’s name with a K, and called the Drug Enforcement Administration an Agency.