The New York Times’ Jacques Steinberg is leaving the TV beat for the paper’s national desk, where he’ll cover education. He’ll be doing digital stuff, and will run a blog called The Choice.
The paper’s TV beat is strong enough to sustain the loss—wunderkind Brian Stelter can easily take up his duties along with Read More
Last night, The New York Times‘ Bill Carter broke the news that NBC will be moving Jay Leno to 10 p.m. in 2009.
According to Mr. Carter:
The new show, which will begin next fall, is expected to be set in Mr. Leno’s longtime studio in Burbank, Calif. Mr. Leno is expected to retain Read More
The Times’ media desk is getting a makeover.
The reporters who cover movies, television, books, newspapers, movies, and all the titans of those industries will be moved out of their second- and fourth-floor offices in the business and culture departments and into a new third-floor space, as a new “mini-department.”
In many ways, Read More
Gawker catches New York Times TV reporter Bill Carter in what looks like an embarrassing slip. Mr. Carter reported today that Shepard Smith’s new contract with Fox News, which is worth around $7 million a year, will make him better-paid than anyone at rival CNN, "if reports of $5 million for Anderson Cooper and Read More
A lot has happened to television in the last few years, and all of it, down to a description of reality-show impresario Mark Burnett’s “fit butt,” makes it into New York Times reporter Bill Carter’s new book, Desperate Networks.
What else has befallen our favorite medium of late? Janet Jackson’s left breast, for one Read More
A lot has happened to television in the last few years, and all of it, down to a description of reality-show impresario Mark Burnett’s “fit butt,” makes it into New York Times reporter Bill Carter’s new book, Desperate Networks.
What else has befallen our favorite medium of late? Janet Jackson’s left breast, for one thing. Read More
