Short Takes

Short Takes

• "Nearly six months after Walter Cronkite’s death, his voice is leaving the ‘CBS Evening News,’ " David Bauder wrote Monday for the Associated Press. "His introduction of anchor Katie Couric was replaced Monday by a voiceover featuring actor Morgan Freeman."¬†
• "WGBH radio has set the launch date for two new midday talk shows with a Boston focus," Johnny Diaz wrote last week in the Boston Globe. "’The Emily Rooney Show,’ hosted by WGBH-TV’s ‘Greater Boston’ host, will start at noon, Jan. 11, on 89.7 FM.
  Rooney’s program will be followed by ‘The Callie Crossley Show,’ hosted by the ‘Beat The Press’ commentator. It will center on current events as well as local and regional arts and culture. The new shows are part of WGBH’s efforts to reinvent 89.7 FM as a full-time news and information radio station."
• "Dominic Carter has hit rock bottom," Annie Karni wrote Sunday in the New York Post. "Two months after the former NY1 political anchor was found guilty of attempted assault for beating, choking and kicking his wife, he spends his days worrying about how to pay his mortgage and agonizing over ‘how fast things got out of control. I don’t set the alarm anymore,’ Carter said in a tearful interview, his first since the attack on his wife was revealed by The Post two months ago. ‘I wake up. I sit around the house. I read the papers, watch a movie.’"
• Joanna Hernandez started a new job as multiplatform editor on the Universal Desk at the Washington Post, Veronica Villafa?±e reported on her Media Moves site. Hernandez, a former region director for the National Association of Hispanic Journalists who is vice president of Unity: Journalists of Color, had most recently taught journalism at City University of New York. She worked as a copy editor for the Record and the Herald News in northern New Jersey.
• National Public Radio’s "All Things Considered" aired a piece on New Year’s Day about Ernie Manuelito, who died in 2009 at age 57. "His was the first voice ever to be heard on KTNN-AM, the Navajo nation radio station.
  Known to listeners as Early Bird Ernie, Manuelito loved oldies (Buck
  Owens and George Jones were favorites) and sports, especially football. He reported on local news, but he also brought the outside world to his Navajo community. He announced Super Bowl XXX and the Salt Lake City Olympics in the Dine (Navajo) language. Ernie spoke Navajo well – better than many – and said that putting the Navajo language on the air was an important public service."
• CBS’s Maggie Rodriguez announced to "The Early Show" anchors on Monday that she’s four months’ pregnant and is expecting her second child July 1, CBS announced. (Video)
• "No one was more surprised than Belva Davis when KQED Channel 9 asked her to stay on as anchor of its revamped weekly news analysis staple, ‘This Week in Northern California,’ " Lisa Vorderbrueggen wrote Wednesday in the Costra Costa (Calif.) Times. "Davis has been on television in the Bay Area for 43 years – 16 of those on KQED public television – and has earned a wall full of journalism awards."
• Often, Lester Holt, anchor of NBC’s "Weekend Today," "is asked whether it’s hard to be a person of faith in his profession," Bobby Ross Jr. wrote for the January issue of the Christian Chronicle. "Whenever that question is posed, he said, the implication seems to be that ‘this business is not for people of faith. I think there’s a connotation that we’re the liberal, atheist media,’ Holt said. ‘And I know a lot of people in this business who are people of faith – maybe not this specific faith that I share, but people who believe in God and follow their faith. So I don’t find it hard.’ "
• BlackTalkers.com, a Web site founded in November by Robert "Rob" Redding Jr. of the online Redding News Review, Monday announced these winners: Syndicated Personality of the Year – Joe Madison of XM satellite radio and WOL-AM in Washington; Radio Personality of the Year – Herman Cain of WSB-AM in Atlanta; Station of the Year – WGIV-FM in Charlotte, N.C., and TV Personality of the Year – Oprah Winfrey. "The nominees were submitted via email and the winners were selected by me," Redding told Journal-isms.