In your overcast Tuesday media column: new faces at the CBS Early Show, Native American journalists are broke, UK editorial staffs decline, a New York Times fashion app, and Conde Nast launches its own ad network.
In your wheezing Monday media column: Matt Drudge lives, the WaPo union gets cheeky, Robert Lipsyte snipes, CBS cans its Early Show producer, Phillippe Dauman is overpaid, and Ann Curry is happy.
Knocking back up to three beers a day, this deer in China has become a major zoo attraction due to his drinking habit. When no brews are readily available, it'll class things up by sipping on some wine. Bottoms up!
In an Early Show exclusive interview, Harry Smith interviewed the German sideline reporter who took a soccer ball to the dome. With the clip on a constant loop, Jessica Kastrop explained how this makes a head-shot hat trick for her.
On Friday we asked if former Good Morning America producer Ben Sherwood was in talks about running CBS' Early Show following the departure of disastrous producer Shelley Ross. Since then, TVNewser spoke to "insiders" who said Sherwood talked to CBS executives about the job, and we got a tip that Sherwood was seen last week having drinks with CBS Evening News producer Rick Kaplan, who is running the Early Show on an interim basis. The tipster said the two were seen "far, far away from the office." (Photo via BenSherwood.com.)
