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Walter Cronkite's Death & Harry Potter's Big Win
cityfile · 07/20/09 11:31AM• News of Walter Cronkite's death on Friday evening didn't generate a Michael Jackson-like reaction, but the hour-long CBS News special honoring him on Sunday proved a ratings winner. In related news, the network will continue airing Cronkite's voice-over introducing the CBS Evening News. [NYT, NYT]
• Is Janice Min leaving Us Weekly? That's the rumor, at least. [P6]
• Fashion magazines are looking a little thin this fall, not surprisingly. [MW]
• Padma Lakshmi is in talks with NBC to star in a sitcom. [Variety]
• More changes are afoot at Interview: Evan Schindler is the troubled mag's new president. And Stephen Mooallem has been named editor-in-chief. [NYT]
• As expected, the new Harry Potter movie mopped up at the box office this weekend with $79.5 million in ticket sales. The big loser? Brüno, which fell to fourth place as sales plummeted 73 percent. [EW, Variety]
Vogue's Bleak September
Hamilton Nolan · 07/20/09 09:15AM"Hey, Little Jim, Tiny Sally: Get Your Brains Blown Out In Iraq"
Aaron Coleman · 07/18/09 01:00PMMeghan McCain Won't Share Ticket With 'Dumbass' Joe The Plumber
Foster Kamer · 07/18/09 12:30PMThe Pictures From Afghanistan You Never See
John Cook · 07/17/09 04:21PMNBC's Win/Loss, Maxim's New Boss & Bonnie's New Gig
cityfile · 07/17/09 01:55PM• Bad news for NBC Universal: second-quarter profits dropped by 41%. [MW]
• Good news for NBC News: Susan Boyle's first in-depth TV interview will take place with Meredith Vieira on the Today show next Wednesday. [NYT]
• Alpha Media, the company that owns Maxim (and used to own Blender and Stuff)—and which was sold to Steve Rattner's Quadrangle Group in 2007—has changed hands again: Steve Feinberg's Cerberus now runs the show. [NYP]
• Rumor has it Pamela Fiori may be leaving Town & Country. [P6]
• Bonnie Fuller is taking over Hollywood Life, the website controlled by Jay Penske, who owns Movieline and recently bought out Nikki Finke. [NYT]
• More Finke: Days after the LA Times ran an article on Hollywood's most powerful blogger comes pretty much the same piece in the NY Times. [NYT]
• All that bad press for CNBC a few months ago must have refocused the network on the things that matter, right? Nope. [Gawker, Zero Hedge]
New York Times: Do As I Say, Not as I Dowd
John Cook · 07/17/09 12:00PMCNN: #1 on Opposite Day
Hamilton Nolan · 07/17/09 10:43AMFelix Dennis on Management: 'I Need to Stop Smoking Crack'
Hamilton Nolan · 07/17/09 09:12AMDeparting Forbes.com CEO Lashes Out at Dastardly Internet Rumormongers
The Cajun Boy · 07/17/09 02:18AMThey Don't Make 'Em Like Felix Dennis Any More (Crazy)
Hamilton Nolan · 07/16/09 03:37PMThe Company Keith Olbermann Keeps
John Cook · 07/16/09 03:11PM'A Few of My Graydonish Things'
Hamilton Nolan · 07/16/09 01:44PMCuts at McGraw-Hill & The Shakeup at Forbes
cityfile · 07/16/09 01:21PM• McGraw-Hill, which announced recently that it's looking to get rid of BusinessWeek, has now announced plans to get rid of 550 employees. [WSJ]
• Jim Spanfeller, the president and CEO of Forbes.com, either decided to leave the company or was forced out, depending on who you talk to. [DF, NYT]
• As expected, the new Harry Potter movie raked it in yesterday. [THR]
• Donald Trump's long-running libel lawsuit against author (and New York Times business editor) Timothy O'Brien has been dismissed by a judge. [NYP]