Glass City Talent, the holding company for Talent Dynamics, has bought the assets of NewsBlues.com, a broadcast news website, from Reel Media Group. This marks the third acquisition for Glass […]
TVNewsCheck will suspend updates to its website and publication of its regular newsletters amid escalating challenges in the industry’s business environment. The company will focus instead on its event business.
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His journalism career began at a New Mexico newspaper in 1947. In 1953 he joined Broadcasting magazine in Washington and began covering television and radio with a passion that, except for a detour to CBS, continued for the next 50-plus years in positions of increasing influence, culminating in the trade magazine’s editorship. After that, he led the Library of American Broadcasting Foundation, never losing sight of his goal of full First Amendment rights for the electronic media. He was 94.
The entertainment publication Variety, under fire this week for an article by Tatiana Siegel it published last Tuesday about former CNN chief Jeff Zucker’s interest in his old employer, revised the piece on Friday to reflect some of the complaints about it. None of its changes affected what was written about Zucker, however. He has called for the story to be retracted.
Layoffs have begun at Penske Media’s The Hollywood Reporter, multiple individuals with knowledge say. At least one digital media writer, J. Clara Chan, has been let go, while another individual with knowledge says at least two more staffers were laid off last week.
Penske Media Corp.’s Hollywood Reporter is poised to go through a new round of layoffs after misses on revenue targets last quarter, an insider with knowledge told TheWrap. The first quarter represented a tough advertising environment for all the entertainment trades, but was catastrophic for Reporter, one of two legacy publications, the insider said.
Was Nikki Finke a genius or a monster? Friends and colleagues try to make sense of the entertainment industry’s brashest chronicler.
The Wrap has hired new editors to head up its film and television coverage. Kristen Lopez will serve as the site’s film editor and Jose Alejandro Bastidas joins as its […]
A famously reclusive blogger, Finke began writing LA Weekly’s “Deadline Hollywood” column in 2002 and made it essential reading for gossip and trade news. Four years later, she launched Deadline Hollywood Daily as a website. Finke’s sharp-elbow style earned her plenty of enemies in Hollywood. But the Long Island native’s regular drumbeat of exclusives proved her considerable influence with executives, agents and publicists. In 2009, Deadline Hollywood was purchased by Jay Penske, whose company, Penske Media, would later also acquire Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.
For decades, Hollywood’s insider entertainment news has been driven by the two major trade publications, Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, and, more recently, online publications the Wrap and Deadline. Now, two new media ventures — the Ankler and What I’m Hearing — are angling to be the authoritative source on Hollywood gossip and goings-on, built around the personalities of veteran entertainment journalists offering their own — they say — unvarnished take on an industry that is obsessed with coverage of itself.
Keith Kelly, the widely read and much-feared media reporter and columnist for the New York Post, is planning to retire on July 23 after more than two decades at the tabloid, according to an individual with knowledge of his plans. Since joining the Post in 1998 after stints at Magazine Week, Advertising Age and the New York Daily News, Kelly has been a key figure breaking scoops on the media beat.
