media
cityfile · 11/06/09 04:15PM
• Condé Nast is now swinging into damage control mode: It's retained Michael Sheehan, a "crisis manager and media coach" who's faced some steep PR challenges in the past having worked with President Clinton and AIG. [NYP]
• So is Oprah moving to cable? The discussions continue, reportedly. [AdAge]
• Kyle Pope doesn't seem to have been Jared Kushner's first choice to serve as editor-in-chief of the New York Observer. Times star business reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin turned Kushner down twice over the past year. [NYM]
• More than 100 people were laid off at Lifetime and A&E today. [Variety]
• Philip Gourevitch is stepping down as editor of The Paris Review. [NYO]
• Time Warner chief Jeff Bewkes discusses the future of the media biz. [TDB]
• MTV did not rebuild the Berlin Wall for U2, in case you were worried. [UPI]
Magazine for Flacks Commends the New York Times for Being So Nice to Flacks
John Cook · 11/06/09 03:47PMThe Coming War for Glenn Beck's Internal Organs
Pareene · 11/06/09 10:48AMConde Nast Cancels Christmas Lunch, Hires Crisis Flack
Pareene · 11/06/09 10:05AMHow Do You Cover a Shooting Story Everyone Else Is Covering?
Ravi Somaiya · 11/06/09 08:28AMNew York Observer Names Kyle Pope New Editor
Hamilton Nolan · 11/05/09 05:27PMBizarre Love Triangle: Breitbart, Reuters, and the Drudge Report
Gabriel Snyder · 11/05/09 04:58PMcityfile · 11/05/09 04:48PM
• Is Oprah preparing to leave her syndicated show behind and take her act to OWN, her long-delayed cable network? That's the rumor anyway. [DH]
• The new editor of the Observer is Kyle Pope, formerly of Portfolio. [NYO]
• Cable meets kindergarten: Fox News will stop being mean to MSNBC only if MSNBC first stops being mean to Fox News, reports Rupert Murdoch. [NYT]
• Fortune and Time are expected to be hardest hit by layoffs at Time Inc. [NYP]
• Scripps has beat out News Corp. for control of the Travel Channel. [BN]
• Susan Plagemann has been named the new publisher of Vogue. Meanwhile, Tom Florio will now oversee Vogue, Bon Appétit and Traveler. [WWD]
• Bloomberg BusinessWeek (or BBW for short) has its new team in place. [NYT]
What Would You Like to Ask Big Bird?
Hamilton Nolan · 11/05/09 02:25PMGlenn Beck Survives
Hamilton Nolan · 11/05/09 01:45PMTime Warner Picks Planes Over People
cityfile · 11/05/09 01:40PMTime Warner started cutting costs across its Time Inc. publishing division this week and is hoping to save as much as $100 million by paring back expenses and slashing several hundred jobs. One way the company could have made up the difference without sacrificing any of its employees? By selling off the three Gulfstream jets it owns!
Maybe That Washington Post Newsroom Face Punch Was a Gay Insecurity Thing
Hamilton Nolan · 11/05/09 09:13AMSpying, Lying, Druglords and Wonderfully Offensive Europeans
Ravi Somaiya · 11/05/09 08:12AMMeet Olivier Zahm: Either the Best or Worst Human Being in New York
Ravi Somaiya · 11/05/09 05:34AMIs Oprah Ready to Leave Daytime TV? And, What Would She Be Without It?
Maureen O'Connor · 11/05/09 02:58AMcityfile · 11/04/09 03:25PM
• The cuts continue at Time Inc. Fortune Small Business was shuttered today. And as many as 500 employees may lose their jobs when all is said and done. Meanwhile, parent company Time Warner reported a drop in revenues and earnings in the third quarter, as expected. [NYT, WWD, AdAge, NYP]
• Profits were up at News Corp. thanks to its film, cable, and book units. [BN]
• The publisher of Marie Claire has jumped over to Vogue. [NYO]
• Fox News came out on top in the ratings with its election night coverage. CNN performed miserably, dropping down to fourth place. [NYT, Politico]
• WNET is giving employees off between Christmas and New Year's. It's not to be nice; it's designed to cut costs since the days off are unpaid. [Crain's]
• A theory as to why Tom McGeveran quit the Observer. [Daily Intel]
• Highlights from last weekend's Tribeca Film Festival, Doha edition. [Vulture]