Ng Avoids Daily News' Shakeup After Blown Call On A-Rod Story

Post First To Break A-Rod Story

Many “rank-and-file staffers were aghast” that N.Y. Daily News Exec Editor David Ng “hadn't suffered” during a recent shakeup at the newspaper, because he had “apparently blown a chance to break the story about Yankees [3B] Alex Rodriguez cavorting around Toronto” with a woman other than his wife, according to Keith Kelly of the N.Y. POST. Sources said that Ng felt the photo of Rodriguez with an ex-stripper named Joslyn Morse was "actually a photo of Rodriguez accompanying his wife, Cynthia. It triggered an uproar when it ran on Page One of The Post on May 30.’” A source said, “It was Ng's call and he blew it. That was a flat-out scoop.”  Kelly notes Daily News Editor-In-Chief Martin Dunn fired Metropolitan Editor Dean Chang and National Editor Mark Mooney.  Stuart Marques and William Goldschlag will replace Chang and Mooney (N.Y. POST, 6/8).