1.   Among the CBS News executives who went to Atlanta on Wednesday were Marcy McGinnis, the vice president for news coverage, and Bill Felling, the national editor.

2.   Ann Grimes, The Washington Post, deputy national editor, social, political and cultural dynamics of the high-tech workplace.

3.   Dean Baquet, a deputy metropolitan editor of The New York Times, has been promoted to national editor of the paper.

4.   He has been the deputy national editor for two years.

5.   Howard Means is a national editor at Washingtonian.

6.   Joseph Kingsbury-Smith, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and former national editor of the Hearst Newspapers, died Wednesday at his home in suburban Virginia.

7.   Ken Adelman, who conducts the interview, is national editor of Washingtonian Magazine.

8.   Ken Adelman is a national editor at Washingtonian Magazine.

9.   Ken Adelman is national editor of Washingtonian Magazine.

10.   Nancy Caldwell, a Journal national editor under Pearlstine, says bringing him to Time Inc. is like hiring a rock star to run a monastery.