PRESS RELEASE: VICTOR NAVASKY TO STEP DOWN AFTER 28 YEARS FROM NATION HELM; KATRINA TO RUN MAG

NEW YORK, NY: On November 7, 2005, Katrina vanden Heuvel, who has served as The Nation’s Editor since 1995, will become its Publisher. She will succeed Victor Navasky who came to the magazine in 1978 as Editor and became Publisher and General Partner in 1995.

“Ms.vanden Heuvel is the latest in a long line of Nation publisher-owners who include Victor Navasky and extend back to Freda Kirchwey in the 1930s and 1940s and Oswald Garrison Villard, who took over from his father in 1918. Ms.vanden Heuvel is the only woman editing (and now publishing) a political weekly in this country.

ON ANDERSON

The Boston Globe reports:

” Tonight on CNN: The cult of personality begins.

“That’s how many media critics have reacted to the rise of Anderson Cooper, the 38-year-old news host who assumes the network’s highest-profile anchor slot tonight.

“When CNN announced last week that ‘’Anderson Cooper 360″ was moving from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m on weekdays — and that network stalwart Aaron Brown, host of ‘’NewsNight” in that time slot, was leaving altogether — critics howled about the triumph of glitter over gravitas. The boyish metrosexual who once hosted the reality show ‘’The Mole” had edged out the measured, old-school anchorman. TV news would never be the same.

“In truth, Cooper is significantly more than a suited-up entertainer. Despite his rarefied upbringing (he’s the son of socialite designer Gloria Vanderbilt), he worked in the trenches for years for teen-oriented Channel One News and for ABC, reporting from trouble spots and disaster scenes and anchoring ABC’s ‘’World News Now” before he got his eponymous show.

“But among a certain urban set, Cooper enjoys a special sort of buzz, centered as much on persona as resume. Snarkier-than-thou blogs such as the media site Gawker.com obsess, and sometimes fawn, over his salt-and-pepper hair, his social life, and the recent sale of his $1.8 million Manhattan loft….

Paxson Resigns

Broadcasting & Cable reports: “Bud Paxson has resigned as chairman and CEO of Paxson Communications Corp. At the same time, NBC Universal has restructured its deal with Paxson to acquire an 18-month window in which to either buy the rest of the company, assign that right to a third party, or pony up $105 million in stock.”

http://email.BroadcastingCable.com/cgi-bin2/DM/y/eoEl0LIJ2Z0Olt0Cc4O0AI

BIRD FLU PHOTOS N SWEDEN

“The first photographs of the H5N1 avian flu virus, taken by science photographer Lennart Nilsson, appeared in the Swedish daily Dagens Nyeter (DN) on Sunday, in what the newspaper said was a world exclusive.

“The 83-year-old photographer had initially approached US laboratories for a sample of the virus but was turned down. In the end he obtained samples from the World Health Organisation (WHO) which were then cultivated at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, which awards the annual Nobel science prize. Nilsson then photographed the virus using images from a powerful microscope. The H5N1 sample had come from a father and daughter who died from the virus in Hong Kong two years ago.

“The photos show the virus as a string of blue balls attacking and destroying healthy pink cells. It was Nilsson who first photographed the moment of human conception, published in a book in 1965 called ‘A child is born.’ Nilsson is the Karolinska Institute’s official science photographer.

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=2431&date=20051106&PHPSESSID=1d2c0b5fda10c2deb2656d115f6de09e

PARADISE NOW

The Palestine Monitor reprts:

“Jenin boy killed by IDF during holidays; Parents donate his organs to Israelis”

“Thursday, November 3, was the first day of the post-Ramadan Eid al-Fitr holidays, the feast of fast-breaking, a three-day festival of family visits, new clothes, gifts, and a break from work and school. On that day Ahmed al-Khatib, 12 years old, was shot and killed by Israeli soldiers.

“Ahmed’s father, after three days of staying with his dying child in the hospital and learning that Ahmed had no chance of survival, decided to donate the boy’s organs. A close family member of theirs had once died for lack of a kidney transplant, they said. The soldiers had chosen to take the life of their child, so they wished to donate life to other families.

“Mr. Khatib said he hoped the gesture would speak to the conscience of all Israeli fathers and mothers so that they might work to end the cycles of violence.”