media
Colbert Livens Up War Zone, Newsweekly
Pareene · 06/08/09 09:29AMBoston Globe Readies Futile Contract War
Hamilton Nolan · 06/08/09 08:28AMNorth Korea Sentences American Reporters to 12 Years Hard Labor
The Cajun Boy · 06/08/09 12:58AMAl Gore's Busy Making Bad Jokes While His Current.TV Journalists Are Still Trapped In North Korea
Foster Kamer · 06/07/09 01:30PMPost-Journalism Career #627: Subway Musician
Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/09 04:04PMBloodbath at the New York Observer
Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/09 02:34PMHeidi Klum Edits, Colbert Heads to the Battlefield
cityfile · 06/05/09 01:20PM• Heidi Klum can now add "magazine editor" to her resume. She assembled a 140-page spread for German Vogue called "Heidi by Vogue." [NYDN]
• Stephen Colbert will be broadcasting from Baghdad next week. [AP]
• Silvio Berlusconi is vowing to sue the Spanish newspaper El Pais for publishing pics of topless women and a naked man at his vacation home. [AFP]
• Were you aware Conan O'Brien debuted this week? Hard to miss, huh? [NYT]
• Bonnier Corp. paid $3-5 million to purchase five magazines from Hachette, including Popular Photography, Flying, and American Photo. [NYP]
Fashion Critic Breaks White House News
Pareene · 06/05/09 01:18PMThere Are Pennies to Be Made In Media!
Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/09 01:03PMBlack Friday at the Observer
cityfile · 06/05/09 12:04PMRush Limbaugh: Black Guys Control All the Banks and Media
John Cook · 06/05/09 11:49AMUnemployment Numbers: Bad, Good
Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/09 10:16AMBing Will Annoy You Into Submission
Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/09 09:35AMAl Gore May Smooch North Korea to Save Jailed Journalists
Hamilton Nolan · 06/05/09 08:35AMRecession Kills SpongeBob
Hamilton Nolan · 06/04/09 12:50PMThe Future of Newspapers, Legal Rumblings in DC
cityfile · 06/04/09 12:07PM• The newspaper industry may look to take a cue from the music business in its elusive hunt for new sources of revenue. Because, clearly, if there's one industry to gleam some wisdom from, that's the one. [MP, WSJ]
• The Justice Department is looking into whether tech giants like Yahoo! and Google violated antitrust laws in their recruiting efforts. [WaPo]
• NBC's two-part White House special scored big ratings. Conveniently, it also squeezed in plugs for every other show on the network. [HP, Newsday]
• Laura Ling and Euna Lee went on trial in North Korea today. [WaPo]
• Silvio Berlusconi is feuding with Rupert Murdoch. And so now Michael Wolff says he really likes Berlusconi. Business as usual, clearly. [Gawker, Reuters]
• Here's something really depressing to chew on: Glenn Beck is No. 81 on Forbes's "Celebrity 100" list and made $23 million last year. [Forbes]