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BusinessWeek Names New Editor, Starts Layoffs (Perhaps) (Updated)
Hamilton Nolan · 11/17/09 10:18AMMagazine of the Future Ruined by Magazine Delivery System of the Past
Hamilton Nolan · 11/17/09 09:50AMAP Layoffs Coming Down Today?
Hamilton Nolan · 11/17/09 09:07AMEveryone Loves Breasts
Ravi Somaiya · 11/17/09 07:33AMAccused Psycho Stalker Ali Wise Still Has a Job and Will Host an Event on Friday
Maureen O'Connor · 11/17/09 02:44AMNewspaper Box Enlivened One Last Time
Hamilton Nolan · 11/16/09 05:14PMRupert Murdoch's Purge of Roger Ailes' News Corp. Enemies Is Nearly Complete
John Cook · 11/16/09 04:06PMVisualizing Media Overload
Hamilton Nolan · 11/16/09 03:57PMDouble X to Be Folded Back into Slate
John Cook · 11/16/09 03:07PMKen Auletta Is Not Funny
Hamilton Nolan · 11/16/09 02:39PMcityfile · 11/16/09 02:14PM
• Oprah's interview with Sarah Palin aired today, as you know by now. [AP]
• The deal between GE and Comcast to give the cable giant control of NBC Universal could be finalized in the next few days/weeks, although approval from Washington could take some time. [DF, THR, WSJ]
• Lou Dobbs didn't walk away from $9 million when he departed CNN. He reportedly got paid $8 million in severance to walk out the door. [NYP]
• The largest gay newspaper publisher in the U.S. has shuttered. [NYT]
• Budget Travel may be the magazine to die. [Daily Intel]
• The cost-cutting McKinsey consultants have landed at Dow Jones. [Forbes]
• 2012 destroyed the box office this weekend, reeling in $65 million. [THR]
New Contender for Survivor: OK! Magazine
Hamilton Nolan · 11/16/09 11:45AMNation's Biggest Publisher of Gay Newspapers Closes
Brian Moylan · 11/16/09 11:20AMHow to Turn a Correction into an Exclusive
Hamilton Nolan · 11/16/09 10:11AMPlay the 'How Will Andrea Peyser Appall Me Today?' Game
Ravi Somaiya · 11/16/09 07:33AMNewsweek Employee Calls Company Rude and Ungrateful in Goodbye Memo
Hamilton Nolan · 11/13/09 04:03PMcityfile · 11/13/09 04:02PM
• George Stephanopoulos will probably replace Diane Sawyer on GMA. [TDB]
• Now that Bloomberg LP is talking over BusinessWeek, columnists Maria Bartiromo and Jack Welch are both parting ways with the mag. [NYP]
• CNN is laying off four of its web anchors since it no longer plans to produce live video on CNN.com. The good news? With Lou Dobbs no longer on the payroll, it should save $9 million over the next few years. [NYT, [NYP]
• Euna Lee, one of the two CurrentTV reporters who was imprisoned in North Korea earlier this year, has scored herself a six-figure book deal. [NYT]
• Shares of Playboy jumped yesterday after it was reported the apparel conglomerate Iconix was in talks to acquire the (struggling) company. [NYP]
• Another senior Observer editor is bidding goodbye to the paper. [Politico]
• Fashion mags are expecting their fortunes to improve in 2010. [WWD]
• Is the Fox Business Channel a lost cause at this point? [VF]
• Television is more getting more and more obscene, supposedly. [NYT]