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The in-box has been piling up...
Hillary Clinton's campaign team held an off-the-record dinner Thursday night in Washington for roughly two dozen journalists and staff members at John Podesta's house, in advance of her expected campaign announcement on Sunday. They will hold an another event in NYC tonight to woo reporters. Huffington Post, Politico
New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet gives a tour of his office. Photo: Dustin Cohen. The Hollywood Reporter
Southern California Public Radio (that's KPCC) is looking for a politics correspondent to "be SCPR's authoritative voice on local, state and national political developments relating to Southern California and break stories off the beat….You don't need a deep radio background but you do need strong journalism credentials and the talent and drive to master new skills and to excel on the air." Job posting
Meanwhile, the Daily News does not plan to replace the late Rick Orlov at City Hall. Dakota Smith will continue there alone, supplemented by more pick ups from City News Service, per city editor Laura Greanias.
Kai Ryssdal visits The Hollywood Reporter to talk with editor Janice Min about turning around the trade pub location, about Hollywood's media and how "butts stole the spotlight from boobs.” Marketplace
Washington Post editor Marty Baron, speaking at UC Riverside, sees these as exciting and anxious times for journalism as print moves to digital. Press Enterprise, Wash Post
"SoCal Connected" featured a softball interview with LA Times publisher Austin Beutner. KCET
An Orange County barricaded suspect telephoned the Register hoping to get the paper to witness his surrender. OC Register
Los Angeles Times Houston bureau chief Molly Hennessy-Fiske received a handwritten letter from a New Orleans jail that says it is from Robert Durst. LAT
BuzzFeed somes to go against its own editorial guidelines to delete post critical of Dove soap. Slate
Veteran Santa Barbara News-Press photographer Mike Eliason is suing the paper, saying he was fired for complaining about mold in the office. SB Independent
The Wrap says it will hold a May 8 "power women breakfast" in San Francisco with keynote speaker Olivia Munn, "one of the fastest-rising actresses in Hollywood, an avid investor in technology and best-selling author."
The Los Angeles News Group sold its West Covina home and will shift some functions to Monrovia. Pasadena Business Now
Lon Simmons, a long-time play-by-play man for the Sann Francisco Giants and Oakland A's, died earlier this month at age 91. Washington Post
Plus a tweet from Michael Beschloss:
Contents of President Abraham Lincoln’s pockets at moment of his assassination, 150 years ago next week): #LOC pic.twitter.com/ilzYvsVS3W
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) April 9, 2015