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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 6/11/2007 5:07:57 PM
Title: Newsday loses Rothfeld and Bazzi
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Memo to Newsday staffers

June 4, 2007
TO: The Staff
FROM: [Newsday editor] John Mancini

What's Going On

We plan to post 10-12 job openings in the coming weeks as department heads work with Debbie Henley, Debby Krenek and Rich Galant to identify the most pressing needs for their desks. Our aim is to fill positions that will be most crucial in transforming the newsroom to supply content for both print and the Web.

Please keep these upcoming opportunities in mind as we head into the journalism convention season this summer. We intend to be actively recruiting at all events.

* * *

We're saying goodbye to two valued colleagues, both of whom placed themselves at great personal peril to report from war fronts for Newsday:

Mohamad Bazzi, who started his Newsday career as a summer intern in 1996 and went on to provide our readers with worldwide exclusives as a foreign correspondent, has been awarded the Council on Foreign Relations' Edward R. Murrow fellowship for 2007, after which he plans to join the journalism faculty at New York University.

Mohamad was hired as a reporter in Queens in 1998 and broke news on general-assignment, neighborhood and higher-education beats before moving to transportation. His insightful reporting on Rudolph Giuliani's plan to privatize the city's airports exposed flaws in the proposal that led to its abandonment.

After Sept. 11, 2001, he was dispatched to Pakistan, London and Cairo to explore the roots of Islamic extremism and was the first U.S. newspaper reporter to profile Dr. Ayman al-Zawahri, Osama Bin Laden's top aide. He covered the war in Iraq and then became Middle East bureau chief. Based in Beirut, Mohamad provided deep analysis on the region and on Lebanon's sectarian struggles, filing vivid and precise combat-zone and explanatory reports during the Israel-Lebanon war.

Michael Rothfeld, who has spent seven years unearthing some of the best political and governmental stories on Long Island, is joining the Sacramento bureau of the Los Angeles Times, where he will cover Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Michael came to Newsday from the Philadelphia Inquirer and began covering the Town of Babylon. He went on to cover Suffolk and Nassau Counties and was a mainstay of the new investigations and enterprise team. Last year, he won the Publisher's Award for beat reporting for his aggressive coverage of the county legislature, police unions and the race for governor.

Whether he was explaining the proud history of the Gordon Heights Fire Department, reporting on conflict in the Mideast or parsing the overlapping interests of a powerful university president, his work was meticulous, tough and fair. In all of these stories and many more, Michael brought persistence and insight to bear on complicated issues.

We'll miss both Mohamad and Michael. Please join me in wishing them well as they take on their new posts.

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