‘Inquirer’ Fails To Attract Dot-Com Superheroes

If you’re interested in the possible strike at the Inquirer and Daily News, you should definitely read Steve Volk’s piece in PW today about the whole shebang. It’s chock full of info, etc., etc. In it, the hiring of Bill Marimow as the Inquirer’s new editor is discussed by various parties.

But the key part of the piece is this quote from Attytood blogger Will Bunch:

“There should’ve been somebody else announced with [Marimow],” he says. “Let’s call him ‘Joe Google,’ or ‘Joe Yahoo.’ Somebody who’d have real power, who’d work with both newspapers to say, ‘Let’s really use the Internet and adapt everything we’re doing to this new medium because that’s our future.’ Marimow could’ve been the guy to make sure we adapt to the new technology in the right way, to keep our values and our mission as journalists intact.”

I believe the man Will Bunch is looking for is Jeeves. Hey, he’s retired now, I bet he’d take a cushy job as Internet Superhero at the Inky.

Looks Good on Paper [PW]
Ask Jeeves [Wikipedia]