Oregon Media Insiders

We hear today that Annie Shooman of the AP is on open-ended disability leave. We met her at the April broadcast awards, and we hope she's doing all right. Our source wanted to know who would be filling in for Annie; the AP told us today that no one person would be filling her shoes, that they'd basically be taking up the slack as a group. That's a lot of slack.

Remember the rumors that Fox12 ND/SM Patrick McCreery was being groomed for the GM position at Meredith's Phoenix shop? Not so much:

Meredith Corp. today hired Edward L. Munson Jr. as general manager of its Phoenix CBS affiliate, KPHO. Munson most recently was vice president of sales for LIN TV Corp., leading the sales strategy for the group. His 17 years at LIN TV, working in...

blah blah blah who cares except his mom. So Patrick stays put.