CNN/SI'S MACMULLAN REPORTEDLY LEAVES CNN/SI AFTER MIX UP

          Jackie MacMullan "has quit her job as a reporter for
     CNN/SI as a result of a controversy over a false NBA trade
     report credited to her last week," according to sources of
     L.C. Johnson of the ORLANDO SENTINEL.  Johnson: "MacMullan
     was so upset by the gaffe that she resigned from the sports
     network, though she continues to write for Sports
     Illustrated magazine as their NBA reporter."  The false
     trade report, (see THE DAILY, 7/29), was credited to
     MacMullan, "whom sources say had merely presented the trade
     possibility during a CNN/SI staff meeting as being one of
     the various rumors she had heard."  A story on the rumor was
     written and put on CNNSI.com under MacMullan's byline. 
     CNN/SI spokesperson Andy Mitchell, on MacMullan's status at
     the network: "We had a small misunderstanding, and we're
     going to work it out" (ORLANDO SENTINEL, 7/29).