By Foster Kamer 5/29 12:41pm

QUOTEABLES

Bourdain.

A Brief History of Things Anthony Bourdain Has Said About Scripps and Their Food Television Stars

Technically, Scripps-Howard isn’t a network so much as a series of networks, but the point is: Anthony Bourdain is taking his act on the road, away from the Travel Channel and to CNN. There are no more No Reservations to be had. The ratings-troubled cable news network probably ponied up some decent cash for Bourdain (and Reservations‘ production company, Zero Point Zero) to come their way. Something that also may have helped? The fact that the Travel Channel was purchased by Scripps-Howard in 2009, and Bourdain has never been one to mince words about the Scripps’ networks stable of culinary stars.

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By Foster Kamer 4/20 2:57pm

QUESTIONS THAT ARE NOT RHETORICAL

joe muto

Has The Fox Mole Really Been Blackballed from Media Jobs?

Just a few days after Gawker introduced their recent and short-lived foray into corporate espionage-cum-pranksterism in the form of The Fox News Mole, one Joe Muto found himself on CNN, speaking with Howard Kurtz on Reliable Sources about the week he’d just had. In that interview, he explained that he was “completely blackballed within the cable news industry after working at FOX News,” which is to say nothing of how his job prospects might be now (“it’s pretty safe to say my career in cable news is over”). Is it, though? Read More

By Jotham Sederstrom 12/07/11 11:40am

the sit-down

Patrick Breslin. (Illustration: Joao Maio Pinto)

Patrick Breslin, Studley's East Coast Retail Services Pro

In September, retail brokerage veteran Patrick Breslin joined Studley as executive vice president of East Coast Retail Services, a division that, until now, the international real estate firm never had reason to focus on. The former president of Grubb & Ellis’s U.S. retail division and a retail broker at CBRE, Mr. Breslin, 50, spoke about his strategy at the International Council of Shopping Centers this week, his goals for Studley’s new East Coast Retail division and father Jimmy Breslin’s views on commercial real estate.

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By Drew Grant 12/01/11 11:39am

Occupy Wall Street

Video

The Occupation Board is empty! (Via CNN)

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Become Office Drones; Have Big Empty Whiteboard for Media Content (Video)

A lot of people have been asking, “Where did all the people from Occupy Wall Street go to?” Well, some of them are holding G.A. meetings at 60 Wall Street (in the Deutsche Bank atrium), or doing work at the TD Bank that they’re currently occupying. CNN got the tip off and headed over to “The Occupied Office” (which at first we thought was going to be an Office parody because that’s how they styled their signs). Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 8/30/11 1:31pm

New Toys

(via Mashable)

CNN Acquires iPad News App Zite

CNN has acquired San Francisco-based tech company Zite, CNN Worldwide president Jim Walton announced today. Zite is a free news app for iPads that collects user data to curate (or aggregate) a personalized variety of content from free sources accross the web in a magazine-style experience.

All of the Zite team is sticking around, though it will be a wholly owned subsidiary and stand-alone business of CNN.

Zite is a Flipboard competitor, and its curation practices have elicted a bunch of cease and desists from news producers like the Washington Post and the AP, according to TechCrunch. Read More