MEDIA BRIEFS

The PALEY CENTER For Media, Annual Benefit Dinner Honoring TOM FRESTON

Media Briefs: Let Pat Kiernan Live!

Can we just let NY1’s Pat Kiernan live? Fareed Zakaria apparently can’t, at least not with all these haters. Neither can a food journalist upset over food journalists dictating the world’s food fads, as she dictates a food fad. But at least New York Post staffers have reason to celebrate (because the Post will let them do so, in the paper). These are your Tuesday Morning Media Briefs: Read More

Adam Penenberg’s Crazy Viral Book Blitz

Before the release last Tuesday of his new book Viral Loop: From Facebook to Twitter, How Today’s Smartest Businesses Grow Themselves, author Adam Penenberg, a New York University journalism professor and Fast Company contributor, crafted a new media strategy that banked on the Internet’s chatty users spreading his words.

He Read More

New Republic Turns Journalism Lemons

The question that everyone was asking leading up to the release of Shattered Glass , the Billy Ray journo-drama on the rise and fall of New Republic reporter Stephen Glass, was whether Mr. Glass would profit from the film.

He didn’t.

Mr. Glass’ novel, The Fabulist , a light fictionalization of his heavy fictionalizing Read More

New Republic Turns Journalism Lemons To Glass Lemonade

The question that everyone was asking leading up to the release of Shattered Glass , the Billy Ray journo-drama on the rise and fall of New Republic reporter Stephen Glass, was whether Mr. Glass would profit from the film.

He didn’t.

Mr. Glass’ novel, The Fabulist , a light fictionalization of his heavy fictionalizing Read More