Stories tagged with Media
Judith Miller joins Fox News as pundit
By Carol Eisenberg | October 20, 2008 at 3:51pm | 0
Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, whose stories about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq were proven wrong after the U.S. invasion, is joining Fox News as an analyst on national security issues.
Christopher Buckley burns conservative bridges with Obama endorsement
By A. James Memmott | October 16, 2008 at 3:05pm | 0
Like father, like son. Well, maybe not. On Friday, the satirist and conservative columnist Christopher Buckley endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
NY Times gig is a sideline for Nobel-winning Paul Krugman
By A. James Memmott | October 14, 2008 at 9:21am | 0
Good heavens, Paul R. Krugman has a day job.
NBC’s Andrea Mitchell navigates tricky path in covering financial crisis
By Carol Eisenberg | September 25, 2008 at 3:43pm | 0
NBC reporter Andrea Mitchell is taking some heat for her reporting on the unfolding financial crisis.
Group of LA Times employees sues Sam Zell for ’self-dealings’
By Carol Eisenberg | September 17, 2008 at 4:43pm | 0
Several current and former Los Angeles Times staffers have sued Chicago billionaire Sam Zell and the Tribune Company for misusing employees’ stock to purchase the media conglomerate last December.
Mexican mogul Carlos Slim buys into New York Times, boosts stock price
By Carol Eisenberg | September 12, 2008 at 11:16am | 0
The news that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helu and members of his family had acquired a 6.4 percent stake in the New York Times Co. baffled analysts, but boosted the price of depressed Times shares.
Rachel Maddow gets MSNBC time-slot
By Carol Eisenberg | August 20, 2008 at 1:37pm | 0
Political analyst Rachel Maddow has gotten her own show, replacing Dan Abrams in the MSNBC lineup.
Woodward and Mayhew prepare another Bush tell-all
By Carol Eisenberg | August 20, 2008 at 12:25pm | 0
All the President’s Men catapulted reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein to stardom. Little credit at the time was given to the book’s editor, Alice Mayhew. But it would be Woodward and Mayhew who became the more important team.
DirecTV mastermind Eddy Hartenstein named publisher in Los Angeles
By Carol Eisenberg | August 18, 2008 at 4:39pm | 1
Can a former aerospace engineer who pioneered the development of satellite television save the Los Angeles Times?
Rachel Maddow ‘on short list’ for own MSNBC show
By Carol Eisenberg | August 11, 2008 at 4:08pm | 2
Political analyst Rachel Maddow may be an openly gay, former AIDS activist who doesn’t own a TV set. But her smarts and self-assurance have catapulted her to the forefront of cable TV’s talking heads, and made her a likely bet for her own time slot on MSNBC.
William Bennett, David Kuo team up to produce conservative ‘Slate’
By Carol Eisenberg | August 3, 2008 at 11:35am | 0
Just in time for the presidential elections, former drug czar William Bennett and faith-based programs guru David Kuo will launch a new website designed to be the conservative answer to Slate.
Michelle Obama, but not Cindy McCain, makes Vanity Fair’s best dressed list
By Carol Eisenberg | July 30, 2008 at 2:19pm | 0
Some will call it political bias, or perhaps, more evidence of the swooning comparisons between the Obamas and the Kennedys by a besotted media.
Ron Paul to write memoir
By Carol Eisenberg | July 22, 2008 at 12:36pm | 2
Quicker than you can say ‘political has-been,’ Ron Paul, the onetime GOP presidential candidate, has moved from “Manifesto” to “Memoir.”
Street-smart Times columnist David Carr takes on Fox News
By A. James Memmott | July 19, 2008 at 9:34am | 0
David Carr, a columnist and reporter for The New York Times, has battled his own crack addition; he has survived cancer. Perhaps strengthened by those struggles, he’s now taking on a force that sometimes sends other reporters running for the hills: The PR department of Fox News.
Randy Michaels built a radio empire, but does he have a plan for newspapers?
By Carol Eisenberg | July 18, 2008 at 9:16am | 1
Does the brash COO of the Tribune Company have any vision of where he is taking it - beyond bailing as fast as he can to stave off potential bankruptcy in the face of the $13-billion debt incurred by Sam Zell’s purchase last year?
Roger Ailes buys N.Y. paper, makes wife publisher
By Carol Eisenberg | July 14, 2008 at 12:48pm | 1
Some men buy their wives flowers; others, chocolates. Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News, bought his third wife, Elizabeth, a community newspaper.
GateHouse Media, Lee Enterprises top newspaper ‘misery index’
By Gary Jacobson | July 6, 2008 at 6:14am | 0
Rapidly shriveling stock prices have produced a new misery index for the nation’s beleaguered newspaper industry: sky-high stock dividend yields. So high, some observers believe, that some cash-strapped companies will soon have to cut dividends, putting even more pressure on their stock prices.
NBC political director Chuck Todd an unlikely on-air hit
By A. James Memmott | July 1, 2008 at 9:12am | 1
As the presidential primaries dragged to a close, Republicans and Democrats alike agreed that there was at least one winner, Chuck Todd of NBC News and MSNBC.
Researcher Steven Hatfill wins settlement in anthrax case
By A. James Memmott | June 29, 2008 at 8:57am | 1
Dr. Steven J. Hatfill, a biomedical researcher, is no longer a person of interest in the investigation of the deadly 2001 anthrax attacks in the United States.
Sheldon Adelson unwilling profile subject of the New Yorker
By A. James Memmott | June 29, 2008 at 8:45am | 1
There was a time when Sheldon G. Adelson seemed famous for his anonymity. He built casinos, backed politicians and contributed millions of dollars to a variety of causes but stayed behind the scenes.
