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Indian journalist falls for Harvard job offer phishing hoax

Sat, 16 Jan 2021 01:23:21 GMT

An award-winning Indian TV journalist fell for an elaborate phishing scam in which she was tricked into thinking she’d been hired at Harvard University, she said Friday. Nidhi Razdan quit her job as a news anchor at the leading station NDTV after 21 years and announced on Twitter in June she’d gotten a job as...

Casey Stern sues Turner, says he was unfairly sidelined while saving kids from alleged abuse

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 01:10:02 GMT

MLB broadcaster Casey Stern claims he was sidelined at work as he dealt with saving his kids from alleged abuse and because he asked for accommodations during the pandemic, a new discrimination charge alleges. Stern, 42, has worked for Turner Sports, Inc. and parent company WarnerMedia, LLC since 2014 anchoring coverage including the MLB postseason,...

Oops! Star and In Touch run advertorials as news

Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:57:27 GMT

Star magazine, which has gotten into trouble before for blurring the lines between advertising and journalism, has done it again. The latest issues of Star and sister publication In Touch ran a full-page ad for cosmetics retailer Sephora that was designed to look like editorial copy without warning readers that it was paid advertising content,...

Fashion ‘bible’ WWD loses two top editors amid COVID pandemic woes

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 23:25:32 GMT

Fashion “bible” Women’s Wear Daily continues to slim down even as its owner, Penske Media, beefs up via a $225 million merger with the publisher of The Hollywood Reporter. Two top editorial executives quietly departed the trade publication at the end of the year, including one who had been there for 35 years, as the...

Search for LA Times top editor continues without apparent frontrunner

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:43:05 GMT

The team searching for a new top editor for the Los Angeles Times is still wading through a long list of potential candidates but expects to announce a permanent executive editor by the end of the first quarter, The Post has learned. The process continued on Monday Jan. 11 with a Zoom call between members...

Mick Fleetwood goes same way as others with music catalog deal

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 19:18:17 GMT

Mick Fleetwood has become the latest in a series of rock musicians to cash in on their work by agreeing on Thursday to sell his back catalog to music major BMG. The deal gives BMG, owned by German media company Bertelsmann AG, a share in the royalties from over 300 recordings including “Dreams” and “Go...

CNN’s Jake Tapper blasted for challenging disabled veteran Rep. Mast’s patriotism

Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:33:23 GMT

CNN anchor Jake Tapper has sparked intense fury for challenging the patriotism and loyalty of a Purple Heart Republican congressman who had his legs blown off while fighting for the US Army. Tapper disputed Rep. Brian Mast’s commitment to democracy on Wednesday after the Florida lawmaker questioned whether any of the rioters who stormed the...

Hollywood production hit COVID-19 pandemic lows in December

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:50:45 GMT

Filming plunged 25 percent last month from November. The production slowdown ramped up toward the end of December, and was linked to voluntary industry efforts to curb the surge in COVID-19 cases.

New York Times comes under more fire for discredited ‘Caliphate’ podcast

Wed, 13 Jan 2021 02:03:18 GMT

The scandal over the New York Times’ botched “Caliphate” podcast widened Tuesday when dozens of public radio stations accused the Gray Lady of multiple “lapses in judgment” while trying to stem the controversy. A letter posted on the website of the Public Radio Program Directors Association called it “extremely troubling” that the host of the...

Jeff Zucker shutters CNN Airport Network, cites COVID-19

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 23:44:00 GMT

Air travelers will no longer get their news from CNN. CNN boss Jeff Zucker on Tuesday said that the cable giant is shuttering its CNN Airport Network, which plays exclusively on TVs in airport lounges across the US. The network, launched 30 years ago, will close up shop on March 31, Zucker wrote in a...

Debate brews ahead of meeting to possibly rescind New Yorker award

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 20:43:28 GMT

If The New Yorker’s National Magazine award for a sensational story on a Japanese “family rental” service is yanked, it won’t be without a fight. The American Society of Magazine Editors will meet on Jan. 28 to discuss rescinding the 2019 award it issued the Condé Nast magazine for “A Theory of Relativity,” by staff writer...

Political unrest to dampen ad spending for news sites: experts

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 19:34:34 GMT

This was supposed to be the year when digital ad spending loosened up again after double-digit losses last year. Instead, newsrooms kicked off the New Year covering exactly the kind of news advertisers love to avoid when on Jan. 6 a mob of President Trump supporters invaded the US Capitol building in an effort to...

Anderson Cooper knew he was gay at 7 years old

Tue, 12 Jan 2021 14:58:36 GMT

"Something was different," he said.

‘Wonder Woman 1984’ stays atop US box office as ticket sales slip

Mon, 11 Jan 2021 15:50:49 GMT

Warner Bros. blockbuster "Wonder Woman 1984" topped the domestic box office for the third weekend in a row, but ticket sales fell off dramatically amid the coronavirus pandemic.

‘We were wrong’: Analyst upgrades streaming-focused Disney

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 23:03:49 GMT

Noted media analyst Rich Greenfield just issued a mea culpa on Disney’s ability to navigate the pandemic. Greenfield’s LightShed Partners upgraded the Mouse House on Friday to ‘neutral’ after slapping a ‘sell’ rating on it in May. “Our call has been dead wrong,” Greenfield said, explaining that his firm was “focused on how the market...

Quibi’s star-studded cast of shows will live on at Roku

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:38:36 GMT

Jeffrey Katzenberg’s video streaming startup may be dead, but its shows will live on. Streaming-device maker Roku has snapped up the majority of Quibi’s multi-million dollar library of original short-form programming in a deal that will give new life to its star-studded library of shows featuring Kevin Hart, Idris Elba, Jennifer Lopez and Nick Jonas....

Job cuts in media topped 30,000 in 2020

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:33:39 GMT

The media industry was racked by a record 30,711 job cuts in 2020 — a stunning increase of 201 percent from the year earlier when 10,201 jobs were lost. The figures, which were rolled out Thursday by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, included jobs data from the news industry, advertising, television and movie production....

Steve Adler to retire as EIC of Reuters after 10 year run

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 23:57:03 GMT

Veteran journalist Steve Adler said he will retire as editor-in-chief of Reuters on April 1 as a search begins to find a successor. Reuters said it will begin the search “in the coming days. The post will be advertised internally and externally on the Thomson Reuters careers site.” During his tenure Reuters, Adler won seven...

New owner of Travel + Leisure eyes expansion of magazine’s travel club

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:48:20 GMT

The Travel + Leisure travel club and its 60,000 members were the big lures for the nation’s biggest time share resort company to pay $100 million to buy the publication from Meredith. “They generate a profit of $5 million to $6 million a year,” said Michael Brown, CEO of Wyndham Destinations, referring to the T+L...

Keith Poole to take helm at The New York Post

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 02:47:35 GMT

The deputy editor-in-chief of The Sun is crossing the Atlantic in March to head the New York Post Group as the paper grows its digital presence. Keith Poole is the first person to be tapped as editor-in-chief of the New York Post Group, where he will oversee the two top editors, Stephen Lynch, editor-in-chief of...