Soundbites



	The best cop in America? That’s how John Timoney is billed in the June Esquire.

Garrett Cuppels, whose rescue of a man who’d jumped into the Schuylkill on May 6 was captured on tape by Philly TV News, e-mailed City Paper to clarify two statements in last week’s report ("Not-so-innocent Bystanders"): "First: I was not yelling ‘I need a break’; rather I was yelling for the [rescue personnel on the scene] to release a rescue buoy to make the resuscitation of Mr. [Matthew] Beaufort more effective. Second: Mouth-to-mouth was not attempted, it was performed. Possibly, what you saw [on tape] were my attempts to clear Mr. Beaufort’s airway of mucous/vomitus. As a trained ocean lifeguard, I felt the need to clarify your statements. Because, as ocean lifeguards, we never have the opportunity to ‘take a break’ nor do we merely ‘attempt’ any of the techniques we are trained."…

Speaking of the jumping incident, Philly TV News continues to work the story. PTN can be seen on channel 95 on Comcast cable (in and around Center City; it’s on 68 on Comcast in the Northeast); and channel 80 on Wade. For suburban listings, see www.phillytvnews.com. …

The Daily News has hired Vance Lehmkuhl, creator of the City Paper comic strip "How-to Harry," as its online editor. Lehmkuhl says he’ll "help translate the Daily News character to a focused Internet presence within Philly.com," the online home of the DN and Inquirer. The paper is considering content that would be exclusive to the Web site and the possibility of breaking news online.…

Nancy Phillips, the Inquirer reporter to whom Neulander murder suspect Len Jenoff confessed, appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources over the weekend. Host Howard Kurtz and co-host Bernard Kalb asked Phillips about the dramatic elements of the tale — keeping Jenoff’s secret for several months (he told her off the record), and the empty envelope Jenoff and co-defendant Paul Michael Daniels delivered, apparently mimicking their first encounter with Carol Neulander. Oddly, however, for an inside-media show, neither Kurtz nor Kalb asked the question the Inquirer still hasn’t answered: why the paper held the story of Jenoff’s on-the-record confession to the prosecutor, witnessed by Phillips, for four days.…

Esquire’s profile of Police Commissioner John Timoney is on newsstands.…

City Paper is a finalist in two categories in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies’ Advertising Awards Contest. Editorial art director Brian Hogan was nominated in the Ad, Full Page Color and Brochure divisions for work related to CP’s Independent Film Contest.…

City Paper scored two honors in the Society of Professional Journalists’ (SPJ) Philly chapter editorial contest. News editor Howard Altman won first place in Sports for "Interview with the Umpire," a feature on Major League ump Eric Gregg. The staff’s coverage of election day 1999 ("How Street Won") took third place in Spot News. The Inquirer dominated the contest, winning 26 awards and sweeping two categories (Criticism and Features Headline). Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky won for two organizations, with a third-place finish in Local Column and first in Magazine Story for "Saving Bella," which appeared in Philadelphia magazine. And Monica Malpass brought home four awards for Channel 6, including top honors in News Story and Arts and Culture Report.…

Last self-reference, we swear: City Paper is sponsoring a new award for collegiate music journalists, in memory of recently murdered CP contributor Jennifer Carey.

—Frank Lewis