Morning Links: Infidelity Is Profitable, Kelsey Grammer!
By Kat Stoeffel | February 11, 2011 | 9:30 am
Town & Country takes its pants off. [WWD] Piers Morgan pump-ups his studio audience with cupcakes and chips. [Business... MORE >
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Drew Grant Crushing on Salon From Now On
By Kat Stoeffel | February 10, 2011 | 6:09 pm
Crushable deputy editor Drew Grant will leave for a staff pop culture writer position at Salon beginning Monday. She's taking part in the site's new initiative to increase coverage in that area, she told The Observer. Expect high-volume short pieces aimed at a younger, internet-savvy audience. Grant is like the decathlete of blogging, having written and/or edited The Huffington Post, Jossip, Nerve.com, The Frisky, Fishbowl NY, Mediaite, among others.... MORE >
New York's Gabriel Sherman to Publish Book about Fox News
By Kat Stoeffel | February 10, 2011 | 3:22 pm
New York magazine contributing editor Gabriel Sherman (and Observer alum!) sold an inside account of the rise of Fox News called The Loudest Voice in the Room at auction to Jonathan Jao at Random House. Here's some memorable work by Sherman on the topic. This should be good! kstoeffel@observer.com ::... MORE >
Diane Kruger Cool With Pigeons
By Kat Stoeffel | February 9, 2011 | 8:31 pm
Tavi Gevinson, Jason Wu, Amy Fine Collins and other fashion types congratulated Diane Kruger on surviving her March Glamour cover shoot involving pigeons with a dinner at Fedora last night. Touching a pigeon ranks among many New Yorkers' deepest fears, but Kruger was pretty cool about the whole thing. She told Daily... MORE >
Kirsten Dunst, the New Face of Bulgari Perfume
By Kat Stoeffel | February 9, 2011 | 8:03 pm
Kirsten Dunst has been tapped as the face of Bulgari's new "Mon Jasmine Noir" scent, reports the Daily Front Row. She'll be properly feted during Milan Fashion Week, at a "Mediterranean Eden" themed party at--where else?--the Bulgari Hotel. We bet she gets to wear something... MORE >
The Daily Has a Photo of Nikki Finke, Thomas Pynchon of Bloggers
By Kat Stoeffel | February 9, 2011 | 6:11 pm
Richard Johnson's gossip column in The Daily is sitting on a photograph of the reclusive Hollywood reporter Nikki Finke, reports The Wrap. The only known photographs of Finke are college portraits and a black and white author's photo. Gawker once offered a $1000 cash prize for a more updated shot. Despite the ubiquity and accuracy of Finke's blog, Deadline Hollywood, she is famously... MORE >
Morning Media Reads: Say No to SEO, Tyrangiel's BBW, Newspapers Spike on NYSE
By Kat Stoeffel | February 9, 2011 | 10:37 am
The Huffington Post and AOL are overrelient on SEO, says Slate's Farhad Manjoo, because Googling is going to get more personalized and more social. "In the Twitter age, 'optimizing for Google results is a little like going out and buying the best VCR on the market,'" he... MORE >
Tina to Arianna: Chicks Before Picks
By Kat Stoeffel | February 8, 2011 | 6:50 pm
Tina Brown and Arianna Huffington were interviewed together by Harper's Bazaar, because they are both women who run media companies that were recently merged and also they used to hang out in... MORE >
Keith Olbermann Named Chief News Officer of Current TV
By Kat Stoeffel | February 8, 2011 | 11:34 am
As reported, Keith Olbermann will join Al Gore's Current TV as Chief News Officer with an equity stake. He will executive produce and host a nightly primetime news and commentary show which will air live beginning later in... MORE >
HuffPo Blogger Revolt!
By Kat Stoeffel | February 8, 2011 | 10:39 am
It's not exactly upheaval, but there are rumblings at The Huffington Post. Now that HuffPo bloggers know how much the liberal's Drudge Report is worth--$315 M.--and how much cash their boss Arianna Huffington made off its sale to AOL--~$100 M.... MORE >
Keith Olbermann Will Probably Announce Move to Current TV Today
By Kat Stoeffel | February 7, 2011 | 10:46 pm
Keith Olbermann is expected to announce a deal with Current TV in a press conference scheduled for Tuesday, reports The New York Times' indefatigable Media Decoder team. One source says Olbermann will get equity in the fledgling, 5 year-old public affairs... MORE >
'Influencers': Journalism's Only Hope
By Kat Stoeffel | February 7, 2011 | 8:06 pm
The Newsweek-Daily Beast merger and sale of HuffPo to AOL have a lot common. Both inspired a lot of people to write long, opinionated, entirely speculative pieces. Both involve brand name female media executives. Both mark an attempt to make a media company greater than the sum of its parts. The Daily Beast and Newsweek are both in the red, but hope to find profitability in streamlined brand unity. AOL wants to use The... MORE >
BusinessWeek's Stephen Adler Named EIC of Reuters
By Kat Stoeffel | February 7, 2011 | 5:59 pm
Stephen Adler has been named editor in chief of Reuters News, the company announced today. Adler previously oversaw editorial products for professional clients, though only for less than a year, reports The Cutline. He was editor in chief of BusinessWeek for five years, leaving when Bloomberg bought the... MORE >
Jeff Zucker Tried to Buy The Huffington Post for NBC
By Kat Stoeffel | February 7, 2011 | 3:32 pm
Ousted NBC chief Jeff Zucker tried to buy The Huffington Post for 18 months, but couldn't settle on a price, reports Poynter. Speaking at a talk sponsored by Harvard's Shorenstein Center, Zucker praised AOL's decision, calling today "a very good day if you believe in news," yet stressed the importance of name brand news like The New York Times, even if they are slower to make money... MORE >
Fashion Week's Abs Class Leader Leaves Allure for Vanity Fair
By Kat Stoeffel | February 7, 2011 | 1:23 pm
Michael Carl left his post as fashion director at Allure to take the fashion market director position at Vanity Fair, reports The Daily Front Row. "A popular front-row fixture, the fitness guru is especially beloved for the group abs classes he occasionally leads in his hotel rooms during the European collections," The Daily Front Row says. W's former market director Treena Lombardo has been picked to fill his old... MORE >
