Enrique's Journey goes to Lifetime

Sonia Nazario's pulitzer-prize winning story "Enrique's Journey," which she turned into a best-selling book, will soon be a Lifetime network movie. No date yet set for its airing, but I will definitely keep you posted.

Sonia, who left the L.A. Times earlier this year to focus on her book writing and public speaking career, is working on her second book.

Flores gets "settled" in at ESPN

Robert Flores, who has worked for ESPN for the past three years, gets a steady time slot. He takes over the noon to 3 p.m. weekday shift on “Sports Center” starting next month.

Robert was the sports director at Waco’s KWTX-TV (Channel 10) from 1994 to 2000. He worked at KEYE in Austin before moving to ESPN in 2005.

Corral becomes a talent rep

Al Corral joins the Napoli Management Group as a talent representative effective September 2, 2008.

A 25-year news vet, Al was most recently news director and VP of news at the NBC-owned Telemundo duopoly, KVEA-52 & KWHY-22 in Los Angeles. He resigned in April of this year.

Prior to his 7 years at Telemundo, he was News Director for KPIX-5, the CBS-owned station in San Francisco.

Al will be based at the NMG’s Beverly Hills headquarters.

Baltimore Sun cuts 100 jobs

The Baltimore Sun today eliminated about 100 jobs - 55 of them from the newsroom, most of which accepted buyouts.

The 171-year-old newspaper is owned by the Tribune Co., which has been making major cuts in its properties around the country, most notably at the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times.

Besides reducing staff, The Sun and other Tribune papers are planning an aggressive redesign of their publications.

NBC-Miami sold... to Post-Newsweek

After much speculation over the past couple of days, The Washington Post Co. announced today that it will buy WTVJ Miami from NBC Universal. Although the terms of the deal were not revealed, it's estimated the sale could bring $350 million to $400 million and should be completed by the end of 2008.

Post-Newsweek Stations, a subsidiary of the Washington Post Co., will oversee operations of WTVJ, which will remain an NBC affiliate. It already owns and operates WPLG, the ABC affiliate in Miami, creating another duoloply in town.

TVNewsday points out that FCC rules allow a duopoly in a market this size if one of the two stations isn't in the top four in local audience share. WPLG ranks No. 1, while WTVJ is No. 6.

Diaz named Sr Editor @ ZDNet.com

Sam Diaz has landed a new job. The former Washington Post tech editor and Mercury News tech writer joined ZDNet.com this week as Senior Editor.

He will primarily be blogging for the Between The Lines blog, covering Silicon Valley and technology on the West Coast. Sam will be based in San Francisco.

After resigning from the Post in October of last year, he joined a P.R. firm for 6 months.

Sam's thrilled to be back home in California and covering technology in Silicon Valley again: "It's my passion and I'm excited to be in the center of it all again, working in the fast-paced world of online journalism."

Pioneer Latino producer dies

Claudio Guzman passed away last Saturday in Los Angeles at age 80. He had 40-year career in Hollywood, where he directed almost 30 TV shows, including "I Dream of Jeannie" and "The Patty Duke Show," as well as multiple films.

But he also was a pioneer in bringing bicultural programming to the airwaves. He produced "Villa Alegre," one of the nation's first bicultural Spanish-English educational television programs for children. The show premiered in 1973 on PBS and aired until about 1980 on more than 230 stations across the country.

In an interview with the L.A. Times in 1972, Claudio, who was born Rancagua, Chile, said: "We want children to understand that despite language, geography and cultural differences, they are all similar."