After a memo banning staffers from attending rallies — specifically the two high-profile ones to be orchestrated by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert later this month — made its way around the internet and collected backlash in its swath, NPR is trying to get other news outlets to join its side of Read More
Media reporter Michael Calderone is leaving Politico for a job at Yahoo News, reports Danny Shea of The Huffington Post.
Recently, we reported that Andrew Golis, who joined Yahoo from Talking Points Memo, was looking to hire a number of seasoned writers–including a media and culture blogger–for a Read More
On Monday, the editors of Vanity Fair posted Mark Bowden’s May 2009 write-around on Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. on the Web. The story, which was Mr. Bowden’s first for the magazine, made quite an impression on the small—and ever-shrinking—community of media reporters and pundits who obsess about The New York Times, not to mention Read More
Tina Brown and Barry Diller’s Daily Beast (A thousand more hours, a thousand more hours!) has a video of Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly dispatching a correspondent to ambush interview The New Yorker‘s Hendrik Hertzberg on the streets of New York. Apparently Mr. O’Reilly felt Mr. Hertzberg misquoted his interview with Read More
Today, in Politico, Michael Calderone and Josh Kraushaar provide the most in-depth story to date about the state of Chris Matthews’ political ambitions.
From the article:
Chris Matthews is dead serious about running for the Senate in Pennsylvania — and is shopping for a house in the state and privately discussing quitting MSNBC Read More
Politico’s Michael Calderone reports that Richard Wolffe, who covered the presidential election for Newsweek, will write a book called Renegade: The Education of Barack Obama for the Crown imprint of Random House.
Sound familiar?
That’s because just yesterday the Media Mob reported that Anne Kornblut of The Washington Post Read More
Today, Michael Calderone of Politico writes about Brit Hume’s swan song at Fox News. After the election, Mr. Hume, who joined the cable news network during its fledgling days back in 1996, will be significantly cutting back his duties, which currently include anchoring Special Report at 6 p.m., anchoring big political night coverage, Read More
Michael Calderone at Politico is reporting that Jon Landman is a top candidate for the chief editor job at The Washington Post, which is expected to be vacated sometime next year by Len Downie.
Landman apparently met with Downie last week, though the nature of the visit isn’t clear. Landman sent Calderone Read More
Who says The Newseum, Washington D.C.’s interactive showcase for journalism and home to Ana Marie Cox’s slippers (seriously) can’t draw a crowd? According to a Washington-based correspondent, "there’s a line along Pennsylvania Avenue "three New York blocks long. It’s sick.”
Earlier this month, Politico’s Michael Calderone wondered, "But with Read More
