Entries for January 19, 2007

Major magazines and daily newspapers aren't the only ones in the media shaking things up as they head into the digital age.

Human Events, the paper of record for conservatives and home to writers like Ann Coulter, is shaking up its masthead. This week they'll name a new editor for the paper and HumanEvents.com. He's Jed Babbin, a conservative columnist, TV and radio pundit, and former Pentagon big, the new editor.

One of Babbin's first tasks: Beef up the paper's website and capitalize on Internet holdings like RedState.com.

You can soon add the title of author to first daughter Jenna Bush's résumé. Whispers learns that the 25-year-old blond twin of Barbara Bush is shopping a book proposal to major publishers in New York City. We're told that the project is vague and that she's initially only gauging publishers' interest. The White House wouldn't comment, but others say it will be a young-adult book based on the former grade school teacher's experiences with charity causes in Latin America. It ought to sell: She's represented by super lawyer-agent Robert Barnett, who squired her around publishing offices in the Big Apple earlier this month. The profits will go to charity.

Photo caption: Laura and Jenna Bush read with a second grade class at Hueytown Elementary School in Birmingham, Ala. in 2004.

Photo credit: White House photo by Joyce Naltchayan; courtesy of www.whitehouse.gov

—Matt Davies, The Journal News