After ten years creating online comedy content geared toward making frat boys chuckle from their laptops, CollegeHumor co-creator and editor in chief Ricky Van Veen is graduating to a new venture at Barry Diller’s IAC. By the end of this year, he’ll transition into a position as chief executive of Notional, a CollegeHumor spinoff Read More
As announced this morning, NBC Entertainment co-chair Ben Silverman will leave his post to join Barry Diller at IAC. He’ll head up a multi-platform production company (which doesn’t have a name just yet). Jeff Gaspin, who was in charge of NBCU’s cable division (Bravo, SyFy Channel, USA Network, etc.) will replace his seat Read More
On the evening of Monday, June 15, at 6 p.m., the High Line in Chelsea will host a big opening party to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the structure and the 10th anniversary of the the city’s efforts to revive it. It will honor benefactors like actor Edward Norton; IAC chairman Barry Diller and his Read More
Diller, Murdoch, Zucker Friend Each Other at Internet Week Soiree: An Observer photo Read More
All of the city’s young digerati will be Twittering about Internet Week New York starting Monday, June 1. Expect everyone from your regular Googlers and Facebookers to College Humor’s Jake & Amir, AOL’s newly minted executive Tim Armstrong, Barry Diller, Digg’s Kevin Rose and even Al Gore out on the town. Read More
John McCain’s 24-year-old daughter Meghan has a book deal! Sources say Hyperion has prevailed over at least three other publishers in an auction that began earlier this week, following a round of meetings during which the in-your-face young conservative and the literary agent she shares with her father, Sterling Lord Literistic president Flip Brophy, Read More
“In my most exhausted moments, I think about the story on the front page of The New York Times about bloggers having heart attacks,” said Edward Felsenthal, executive editor of the Daily Beast, said at at the PSFK Conference at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in Battery Park today. By way Read More
“My daughter is getting an award so I’m a proud duh-dee!” Paul McCartney told the Daily Transom at the Natural Resources Defense Council’s annual Forces for Nature benefit at 583 Park Avenue on Monday, March 30, where his daughter, fashion designer Stella McCartney, and Discovery Communications’ CEO David Zaslav were honored for their respective environmental work. Read More
Last night, at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, Tina Brown told a few hundred young J-school students that the Daily Beast—which Barry Diller finances and said won’t come close to turning a profit for two or three years, “if then”—that there is indeed a revenue model for the Web site.
“Our business Read More
On Thursday, Feb. 5, the spacious lobby of Barry Diller‘s IAC iceberg building along the West Side Highway was filled with shaggy-haired 20-something guys in ill-fitting suits and 20-something tattooed girls in H&M dresses, who were there to celebrate the premiere of MTV’s The College Humor Show.
The show is based on the 10-year-old Read More
