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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 7/7/2006 7:14:32 AM
Title: Newsday editor on closing of foreign bureaus
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
July 6, 2006
TO: The Staff
FROM: [Newsday editor] John Mancini

Tribune newspapers are increasing coordination of foreign news reports, which means Newsday bureaus in Beirut and Islamabad will not be staffed when the scheduled terms of Mohamad Bazzi and Jim Rupert end over the next two years.

The Tribune-wide staffing changes will not reduce our commitment to providing an enterprising foreign report, edited in Melville. We've been speaking with Mohamad and Jim, who have done world-class reporting, about the options they'll have upon their return. We look forward to their top-notch work in their current posts, and beyond.

Some changes in deployment already have been made by papers in the group to accommodate the new system, which aims to reduce duplicative staffing as Los Angeles and Chicago assume responsibility for bureau reporting and daily news coverage.

It is important to note that we are not reducing Newsday's reporting or editing of foreign news. We are in the process of filling an editing position on the desk right now. I am confident that we will continue to travel to cover stories around the world and report the trademark news and project work our readers have come to depend on.

My optimism is based on the major work that the Foreign Desk has produced over the past 18 months, from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the continuing crisis in the Mideast to series on Nepal, the Sudan and war criminals on the run.

Newsday foreign coverage has always been fueled by an enterprising vision and brave reporting, not by where we have been based. We've long drawn from the whole newsroom for special projects and to cover major news events, such as the tsunami, the death of the Pope and elections in the Mideast and elsewhere.

In the past year, Letta Tayler has moved from Mexico City to the newsroom here, and her coverage of Latin American and the Caribbean has been outstanding, most visibly in her series on Haiti and in her ongoing and incisive on-the-ground coverage of elections in South America. Matt McAllester has been based at his home in London during his most recent brilliant run of reporting, writing from hotspots in Europe, Asia and the Mideast.

We remain committed to upholding the Newsday tradition of bringing the world beyond Long Island to our readers.

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