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Mar 19 2009 5:38pm EDT

Late Breaks: 'WSJ' Speeds Up; Life with Lenny

-Wall Street Journal managing editor Robert Thomson told the paper's reporters today that their job evaluations will depend in part on how much breaking news they provide to Dow Jones Newswires. From his memo: "We must all think of ourselves as Dow Jones journalists and, at the least, have some comprehension of the life-cycle of a news story and its relative worth to our readers around the world." [TalkingBizNews]

-Journalists in Barack Obama's press pool are annoyed that they won't be able to accompany the president onto the set of The Tonight Show. [AP]

-What's it like to work at The Player's Club, Lenny Dykstra's more-or-less defunct magazine for professional athletes? Not too bad, if you don't mind having a supposedly filthy-rich baseball star borrow your credit card to charter private planes and spew racist/homophobic epithets in your face. [GQ]. □

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