This past week, in a victory for choir kids everywhere, the season finale of Glee trounced the Celtics and the Lakers and took the top spot in New York’s weekly ratings rankings.
The Tony Awards managed to pull off a third place finish.
While it failed to crack the top ten, the season premier of Read More
On the afternoon of Monday, June 14, a young man in a ski mask, white wig, top hat and Groucho Marx-style fake nose, mustache and glasses stared out over an auditorium of onlookers at the Hilton hotel in midtown. “The first thing you need to do to get big on Twitter is to Read More
Media Mob has learned that investigative reporter Murray Weiss is leaving The New York Post, where he currently serves as the criminal justice editor.
Sources at the Post describe Mr. Weiss’ imminent departure as a major loss for the paper.
Mr. Weiss has worked at The Post for roughly 25 years, along the Read More
Figuring out the future of journalism makes strange bedfellows. Rupert Murdoch, meet your new business partner, James Ottaway, Jr.!
To wit: Executives at the News Corporation announced today that they have purchased a minority share of Journalism Online. Two of the other, significant investors in Journalism Online, Paid Content reported today, are Read More
ABC’s 2-hour special preview of Wipeout snuck into the top ten in New York this past week.
Here’s how Slate’s Troy Patterson described the show in the summer of 2008:
In the course of attempting masochistic physical challenges, its contestants fall down very often, and we watch these plunges in sadistic slow-motion replay, Read More
On Sunday, June 6, CNN aired an interview with James Fallows in which the writer talked on camera about his recent story in The Atlantic, which looked at Google’s impact on the news business. Typically, such stories are full of gloom, but this one was hopeful. Having contributed to the many woes of Read More
Tomorrow, Chuck Scarborough’s dog Oliver will be honored at a luncheon in Garden City, New York, for reportedly saving the Scarborough family cat Stanley from a marauding coyote.
From the NBC press release:
North Shore Animal League America is honoring NBC4 New York/New York Nonstop’s ‘New York Nightly News’ anchor Chuck Scarborough’s fearless dog, Read More
Executives as NBC Local announced today that Michael Jack will be taking over as the president and general manager of WNBC, the network’s flagship station in New York. Mr. Jack previously held the same position at WRC, the peacock network’s station in Washington D.C.
At the same time, former WNBC G.M. Tom O’Brien will Read More
Today, Ad Age‘s Edmund Lee writes about Examiner.com, which, with backing from billionaire Philip Anschutz, has become a “a crowd-sourced content play” that publishes a vast amount of local news from more than 40,000 freelance contributors in some 240 neighborhoods around the country and in Canada.
“I hesitate to call them journalists,” CEO Rick Read More
Jim Bankoff, the CEO of SB Nation, announced today that the online, sports-media company will be launching 20 new regional sites, including one catering to New York sports fans. Ed Valentine will edit the New York site. Mr. Valentine previously founded the Giants blog, Big Blue View, and writes and edits for Read More
