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Earlier this week, the USC student-run online publication Neon Tommy published a profile of LA Weekly editor Drex Heikes. The story was not unflattering, and I was impressed by Heikes' candor about many of the issues facing the paper. He openly acknowledged how grim things had become:
"Sometime in [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:48pm EST
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- Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novel in Playboy - GalleyCat
- AP reaches payroll cut goal - MediaJobsDaily
- Brian Williams receives Cronkite Award - TVNewser
- AOL still hiring journalists as it cuts staff - FishbowlNY
- Biz Stone on paywalls: Can't [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:16pm EST
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Ellen Degeneres reacts to the news of the end of the Oprah show.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:44pm EST
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:13am EST
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One of your hard-working FBLA editors made the opinion section of the OC Register.
Full story is here.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:55am EST
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"They're curing their heartache with big doses of man medicine," reports Mark Thompson. "Smokin' hot firemen... sizzling old west cowboys... steamy bare-chested soldiers... and hot cops, in and out of uniform. The kinds of guys that really get these women's horns up."
A very thorough and objective investigation of a [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:42am EST
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 Harpo, the production company behind Oprah Winfrey's talk show, sent a memo to staff today announcing the end of the program. "The sun will set on the 'Oprah' show as its 25th season draws to a close on September 9, 2011," explained Harpo president Tim [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:49pm EST
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- Who's not staying at Bloomberg's BusinessWeek - MediaJobsDaily
- Woman uses Facebook to track down attacker - WebNewser
- AP layoff update: Four bureaus closed, says union - FishbowlNY
- Walmart.com CEO denies "predatory" book pricing - GalleyCat
- Wired creating an eReader version of the [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:56pm EST
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According to Forbes, citing the stinker Land of the Lost, Will Ferrell movies earned an average of $3.29 for every dollar he was paid. Compare that with Michael Cera who made the magazine's "Hollywood's 10 Best Actors For The [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:12pm EST
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"Going Rouge" is a book written by editors at The Nation. "Going Rogue" is a mavericky, romp through why everybody but Sarah Palin is "making stuff up."
It can get confusing.
Via The Nation
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:25pm EST
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Business Week columnist Jon Fine just announced via Twitter that he won't be returning. Fine's wife is the founder of Mediabistro Laurel Touby.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:18pm EST
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:12pm EST
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The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cLou Dobbs www.thedailyshow.comDaily Show
Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis
This is a pretty stunning interview with the recently fired/retired Lou Dobbs.
"Your views however abhorrent and wrong have always been consistent," says Jon Stewart [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:25am EST
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From a piece about Ruth Seymour in today's LA Times:
In 1996, KCRW was the first station to carry "This American Life" outside of its home base, Chicago's WBEZ. Host Ira Glass said of Seymour, who was an early supporter of his program, "I think she has [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:46am EST
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Vivid Entertainment has acquired the solo sex tape Carrie Prejean made for a boyfriend, and hopes to distribute it commercially. The porn company has offered the former Miss California $1 million for the rights to release the film, but despite her refusal, there seems to [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:18am EST
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 The IRS has filed a Federal Tax Lien against 'Girls Gone Wild' creator Joe Francis for nearly $34 million. From TMZ.com:
It was less than 2 weeks ago that Joe got out of a sticky federal tax evasion case by copping a plea and avoiding [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:09am EST
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 The General Manager of KCRW announced Tuesday night to her staff that she was retiring. LA Observed has posted Ruth Seymour's memo to employees, her letter to subscribers, and a nice round-up of reactions from the radio community. In an interview with Sharan [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 7:43am EST
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