This week, the Watch List goes inside newsrooms, where lots of movement is happening. Check this out…
HE’S GOT THIS: Richner Communications, publisher of 17 weekly editions of Herald Community Newspapers, has promoted Scott Brinton to executive editor, following the retirement of the one-and-only John O’Connell.
HANDLE THIS: David Reich-Hale is covering banking and healthcare at Newsday. He’s a Tweeter (charmingly so); find him here: @drhli.
GREAT GUNS: After a brief but notable stint, Ann Givens is leaving NBC New York’s I Team and joining a nonprofit news outlet called TheTrace.org, where she’ll be covering law enforcement and guns. And yeah, she’s looking for stories.
OPPORTUNITY IS KNOCKING, PEOPLE: WNYW/FOX5 has a feature segment called Made on Long Island. If you fit the bill with products actually made here, here’s your chance to stop saying you’re a ‘best-kept secret’ and go pitch Jodi Goldberg. (Don’t know how to pitch? Get help from a PR pro, please. Don’t know PR types? Start by checking out PRPLI.org.)
TRUMP THIS: Congrats to Adrian Carrasquillo, newly named White House correspondent for BuzzFeed News.
SPEAKING OF THE PRESIDENT-ELECT: New York Press Club Prez Steve Scott has penned a letter to the guy Politico dubbed the ‘vulgar talking yam’ to encourage him to let journalists be journalists and allow them the access they need to cover these transition days.