David Lombino

Only days after the Sun announced that it might close at the end of the month, the paper's city editor David Lombino said today is his last day at the paper, and in journalism altogether. Here's the email he just sent out to staff, and friends:

From: David Lombino <dlombino@nysun.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 12:08:23 -0400
To: David Lombino <dlombino@nysun.com>
Subject: Moving on

Hi all:

Apologies for the mass email. I wanted to let you know that today is my last day at The New York Sun. Starting Monday I'll be serving in a new capacity as Vice President of Public Affairs at the New York City Economic Development Corporation.

My contact info as of 9/15 will be:

xxx@nycedc.com
212-xxx-xxxx

My personal cell phone remains 917-xxx-xxxx.

Thanks, talk to you very soon.

Dave

 

The editors of The New York Sun have started posting stories on their Web site during the day instead of waiting to put them in the next morning’s paper.

A memo sent to staff yesterday by city editor David Lombino said reporters should expect to file early when they’re working on certain kinds of stories. Mr. Lombino said in the memo that news editors will work with new online editor Mike McPhate to choose what will be posted early during their morning meeting.

Previously, wire copy was the only fresh content one could expect to see on the Sun Web site after the day’s stories were uploaded in the early morning hours. In an interview earlier today, managing editor Ira Stoll said he hopes that readers will get in the habit of visiting the site more often when they realize that new local stories, filed by the Sun’s own beat reporters, are being posted there on a regular basis.

Not all stories qualify for this treatment.

“We’re trying to do it more often on non-exclusive stories,” Mr. Stoll said, “like where there’s a press conference with the mayor or the governor at 10 or 11 in the morning and all the other reporters are there. Or if there was a crime that happened the night before and the police have put out a release about it.”

In an interview, Mr. Lombino said that if he’s dealing with “the kind of story that somebody [from another newspaper] can follow up on for the next day’s paper, we’ll probably want to sit on it until we’re confident they’re at home or in bed. It depends on what kind of scoop we’re talking about.”

Mr. Stoll said that “people may write shorter and quicker, and then for the print edition find a different angle or have more thorough reporting.”

Mr. Lombino said he had looked to The New York Times’ “City Room” blog as a reference point; the Times blog is updated frequently with up-to-the-minute metro news.

Mr. Stoll said he had never heard of City Room.

Mr. Lombino’s memo to staff is after the jump.  read more »

David Lombino has a fascinating piece on how another tunnel under the Hudson River is fitting into negotiations about who controls Ground Zero. It involves too much horse-trading to go into here, but, unlike most Sun articles, it is completely free on the Web. -Matthew Schuerman

The third quarter drop played out in the press with ominous, bubble-bursting headlines. But high-end brokers always find a way to look on the bright side, and are now hotly anticipating positive news from Wall Street.

A few weeks ago, Jonathan Miller discussed the possibility of record-breaking bonuses on Wall Street. And today in The New York Sun, David Lombino finds brokers anxiously waiting for such favorable news (sub req).

“Their bonuses are our bonuses," a broker for the Corcoran Group, Wilbur Gonzalez, said.

Now, if only Mr. Gonzalez can find some young trader with a bonus-to-burn to grab Courtney Love’s Soho loft off his hands.  read more »

-Michael Calderone