In your penniless Monday media column: TONY freelancers say they're being stiffed, NPR is afraid of the public's emails, The Daily may have to fight for its name, and Whoopi vs. O'Reilly, round two.
In your finally Friday media column: Katie Couric rebukes the Today show, rumors of payment problems at Time Out NY, magazine ad pages are up modestly, and Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck lose Philly, and morning television funneez.
In your packed Thursday media column: Jeff Bewkes hides in plain sight, News Corp's looking to poach from the NYDN, the decline of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, AMI's bankrupt, and Vice comes to MTV.
In your sadly predictable Wednesday media column: Dan Rather's predictable memoir, Roger Ailes' predictable comments, the predictable financial failure of a quality journalism operation, and the predictably bizarre fallout of a women's magazine uproar.
Two weeks ago, Cooks Source was just a tiny regional New England food magazine. Then its editor stole a freelancers article and haughtily dismissed her protests, drawing the internet's wrath. Now, it seems you people may have killed Cooks Source.
In your paradigm-shifting Tuesday media column: Sasha Frere-Jones decamps, Keith Olbermann declaims, Brides magazine double-entendres, and the NYT deconstructs.
In your foreboding Monday media column: speculating on News Corp's education business, Associated Content is good for something, NBC Nightly News is now scrounging for any old viewers, Keith Olbermann prepares to talk trash, and a new media blog.
In your innovative Thursday media column: The Nation vs. the New York Times, Newsweek's quiet on its merger plans, your good media idea could make you millions, NPR's Juan Williams investigation is underway, and a remembrance.
The Daily Beast- Newsweek merger talks collapsed last month, followed by mild trash talk on both sides. Well: now the merger discussions are reportedly back on. Again! Newsweek is destined to flounder forever! Just hire someone, anyone! Christ. [NYP]
In your bloviating Wednesday media column: Lou Dobbs gets a new show, Tribune Co prepares for bonus season, Business Insider backtracks on a listicle, and Slate is—or is it?
Cooks Source, the tiny magazine that set the internet aflame by stealing a writer's work and then haughtily brushing off her protests, has finally—belatedly!—issued an apology. Of sorts.
It's been months since Hugh Hefner launched a buyout bid for the Playboy empire, only to be outbid by the owners of Penthouse. Hefner's in precarious position: he controls the company. But his bid sucks. And he needs cash, bad.
In your laughable Tuesday media column: Sarah Palin feuds comically with the WSJ, nobody watched the George Bush interview, Salon is (still) broke, and Gerald Levin returns to the media, for some reason.
In your icy Monday media column: Fox News anonymice reveal obvious scandals, turmoil at Essence, Bernie Sanders is moved to insanity by Keith Olbermann, Peter Chernin's big plans, and Euna Lee says she considered suicide in prison.
Hugo Lindgren, the new editor of the New York Times Magazine, spent a decade working under New York magazine editor Adam Moss before getting his big break. It makes sense, then, that Lindgren's great ambition is to crush Adam Moss.
In your unified Friday media column: a strike at the BBC, Daily Candy's editor is out, Forbes debuts its "sponsored blog," and Jon Friedman has but one wish.
Yesterday, a bit of plagiarism at an obscure regional food magazine blew up the internet. Cooks Source editor Judith Griggs' haughty dismissal of a writer she stole from earned her four kabillion brickbats. She's apologized! Not very well, though. [UPDATED]
Writer Monica Gaudio was surprised to see an old article of hers appear in Cooks Source, a "publication for food lovers in Western New England." So she wrote the magazine's editor to ask how they got it. The reply: insanity.
In your salacious Thursday media column: Olivier Zahm is a sexual prophet, the massive corporate media monsters flourish, ladies leave the New York Observer, and "The Way We Live Now" belongs to us!