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Laura Ling Naming Baby After Bill Clinton
Hamilton Nolan · 06/03/10 03:16PMHow Not to Get Arrested When You're Abroad: A Foxy Knoxy-Inspired Guide
Maureen O'Connor · 12/07/09 03:51AMBill Clinton on the Time Two Ladies Gave Him a Happy Ending in Korea
Maureen O'Connor · 12/02/09 03:08AMHappy Birthday
cityfile · 12/01/09 07:42AMWoody Allen turns 74 today. Sex and the City creator Candace Bushnell is turning 51. Bette Midler is 64. Sarah Silverman is turning 39. Current TV reporter (and former North Korean detainee) Laura Ling turns 33. Zoe Kravitz, the actress and daughter of Lenny, is turning 21. Actress Emily Mortimer is 38. Former supermodel Carol Alt is turning 49. John Densmore, the former drummer of The Doors, is 65. Actor Treat Williams is turning 58. Fox News correspondent Rick Leventhal is 50. And Jared Fogle, the "Jared" from a million and one Subway commercials, turns 32 today.
Euna Lee Wins Imprisoned Reporters' Book Deal Race
Hamilton Nolan · 11/13/09 09:53AMCharles Gibson Retires, Diane Sawyer Replaces Him
cityfile · 09/02/09 01:11PM• Charlie Gibson is retiring as anchor of ABC's World News Tonight at the end of the year; he'll be replaced by Diane Sawyer, who is stepping down as anchor of Good Morning America to take the job. And now Brian Williams will soon be the only man anchoring a nightly network newscast. [NYP]
• The 66th installment of the Venice Film Festival kicked off today. [THR]
• Thanks to the success of Royal Pains and Burn Notice, USA has scored the highest summer ratings in the history of cable television. [B&C]
• Current TV's Laura Ling and Euna Lee have broken their silence and are now describing some of what happened when they were captured in North Korea. Not all it, though. You'll have to buy their book to read the rest. [LAT]
• Is Jared Kushner looking to unload the Observer? That's the rumor. [Gawker]
Formerly Imprisoned, Laura Ling and Euna Lee Now Free to Tell Their Tale (Mostly)
Andrew Belonsky · 09/01/09 10:20PMThe Backlash Against Laura Ling and Euna Lee Begins
Hamilton Nolan · 08/24/09 09:52AMThe Return of Vibe, Ling Sisters Look For a Deal
cityfile · 08/12/09 01:08PM• Vibe is rising from the dead. A group of investors led by former cable exec Leo Hindery and its luxury magazine publisher Uptown Media have acquired the magazine. They plan to resurrect the website in a few weeks. [WSJ]
• Laura Ling is shopping a book proposal with her sister, Lisa Ling. [WSJ]
• Twitter was the victim of another denial-of-service attack yesterday. [NYT]
• Facebook is testing out something called "Facebook Lite," which may or may not be a Twitter competitor, depending whom you ask. [ABC News, Guardian]
• CBS had planned to change up this year's Emmy Awards. But then everyone complained, so now it plans to go back to the way it was. [THR]
• A launch party for a new magazine? Could it be? Really? [AdAge]
Imprisonment, Famous Sister Pay Off For Laura Ling
Hamilton Nolan · 08/12/09 11:29AMThe Kidnapped Reporter's Career Guide
Hamilton Nolan · 08/11/09 02:38PMHonorable Leader Kim Jong-Il Was Right All Along About U.S. Journo-Spies
Hamilton Nolan · 08/07/09 09:11AMLook Who Else Is Using the North Korean Rescue to Rehabilitate His Image
John Cook · 08/05/09 02:51PMIt's Time for Current TV to Talk About What Happened to Their Captured Reporters
Ryan Tate · 08/05/09 01:19PMNBC's Offensive, CNBC's Losses & The Crisis at Condé
cityfile · 08/05/09 01:06PM• NBC is pulling out all the stops to promote Jay Leno's new show. Don't believe it? Try this out for size: "In early September, NBC will even adopt a portion of Interstate 10 in California to reiterate Mr. Leno's time slot." [NYT]
• Notwithstanding the Leno blitz, NBC is still looking to cut its budget. [NYT]
• No one cares about CNBC these days, in case you haven't noticed. [Slate]
• More on troubles at Condé Nast (revenues may fall by as much as $350 million this year), and the recent round of receptionist-purging. [NYP, NYO]
• The lobbyist scandal goes on. A couple of days after it was revealed that MSNBC's Richard Wolffe is now working for a lobbying firm comes the news that CNN's Bill Schneider has signed up with a D.C. think tank. [HuffPo]
• Related: Wolffe has another Obama-related book in the works. [TNR]
• Experts say the prognosis for BusinessWeek is not good. [DailyFinance]
• As you might expect, the mood has been very upbeat at CurrentTV today now that Laura Ling and Euna Lee have returned from North Korea. [NYT]
The Tearful Homecoming
Ryan Tate · 08/05/09 10:20AMBill Clinton Frees US Reporters From Kim Jong-Il's Clutches
Hamilton Nolan · 08/04/09 02:21PMBill Clinton, Hero
cityfile · 08/04/09 11:48AMBill Clinton came through. Last night the former president jetted off to North Korea to negotiate the releases of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, the two journalists who have been imprisoned since March after they were accused of crossing over into North Korean territory without permission. Now they'll be going home. Kim Jong-Il has issued a "special pardon" and agreed to release them. [Reuters]