In a post entitled Want to Hear What Katie Couric Said Yes­ter­day? Don’t Read Port­fo­lio, the Wall Street Journal’s Peter Kafka points out that Port­fo­lio media blog­ger Jeff Ber­cov­ici had to pull down a story obtained under Chatham House rules.

Some Media­Memo read­ers have asked me to reprint all of Bercovici’s story, but I don’t have access to it.

How could Kafka have accessed it? Type “cache:” before the dead url, and — lo and behold — this pops up:

Katie’s Little Help­ers: How Couric Prepped for Palin

At Quadrangle’s Foursquare con­fer­ence today, Portfolio’s own Matt Cooper inter­viewed Katie Couric, Brian Wil­li­ams and George Stephan­o­poulos about cov­er­ing the pres­id­en­tial cam­paign that was. Matt says he’s sworn to secrecy, and you know I wasn’t invited, but one per­son who was there says it was a lively dis­cus­sion, with Wil­li­ams teas­ing Couric about all the atten­tion she got for her campaign-narrative-altering inter­views of Sarah Palin.

Couric shed some light on her pre­par­a­tion for the inter­views: Before­hand, she sought advice from former sen­ator Sam Nunn and Coun­cil on For­eign Rela­tions pres­id­ent Richard Haas. They told her to draw Palin out on her geo­pol­it­ical world­view and urged her to let the gov­ernor speak at length without inter­rupt­ing her. Maybe she should bring them along with her when she takes over at Meet the Press?

Also at Foursquare, Port­fo­lio editor in chief Joanne Lip­man inter­viewed Tribune Co. chair­man Sam Zell. Given his cau­tious speak­ing style, I’m sure there wasn’t much to report from that session.

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