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October 21, 2004
Media Watch: Cracking the whip at News.com
News.com is by far the best online news service for the technology industry and it has a near maniacal devotion to producing extremely high quality content. I defy any blogger, or collection of bloggers to mimic News.com in its quality and breadth of editorial (unless those bloggers are trained journalists BTW)
But life is tough at News.com and the long suffering hacks have been told they must increase their productivity.
The reporters must produce at least one feature per week on top of the rising daily news workload. Editor Jeff "Mad Dog" Pelline always gets his way I'm told.
BTW, my good buddy Tom Abate, from the SF Chron, has a couple of zinger stories about Jeff (when Jeff worked at the Chronicle and Tom was at the Examiner) that point to his dogged determination to get the scoop.
I must point out that the "Mad Dog" nickname does not originate from News.com (he is known under a different name), but is from a past life elsewhere. Jeff has always been extremely gracious and pleasant in my encounters with him.
October 21, 2004 11:04 AM
