Since January, when Marty Baron announced his retirement as editor of the Washington Post, the media beat has hummed with speculation about his replacement: Would it be an internal candidate? Or one of a bevy of editors from the New York Times? Or Ben Smith? So it was impressive yesterday when the Post appointed someone who hadn’t appeared in the guessing game: Sally Buzbee, the executive editor of the Associated Press. Online, the unexpectedness of the hire sparked a mini-debate as to whether media reporting is bad or not; Nieman Lab’s Hanaa’ Tameez asked why we had “to suffer through so many think pieces that ended up being way off?” Management at the Post certainly maintained a high wall of secrecy around the process, blinding not just outside media reporters but the paper’s own staffers, some of whom, the Daily Beast reported recently, were irked by their lack of insight. At one point, the paper’s union wrote to Fred Ryan, the publisher, requesting input into the decision. “Given the confidential and sensitive nature of the executive editor search,” he replied, “we do not plan to broadly address the search process with employees.” Maybe not so impressive after all. The news of Buzbee’s hire was broken, in the end, by Paul Farhi, a media reporter at the Post. (“I was just telling @farhip that I’m looking forward to finding out who the next executive editor of the Washington Post will be via the bot in our Slack telling us that his story about it published,” Elahe... Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'
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On a cultural obsession with Patty Hearst and the fine line between writing other people’s traumas and exploiting them. | Lit Hub Criticism Rebecca Solnit shares some of her favorite objects: “Your whole life is a research expedition, collecting specimens and building your pattern-recognition... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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When I was seventeen, my friend—the kind of person who always finds hidden gems in used bookstores—leant me Every Secret Thing, Patricia Hearst’s memoir about being kidnapped and forcibly radicalized by an urban guerrilla group. Hearst spent nearly all of 1974 on the run with the Symbionese... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Huckabee worked at the Hearst owned ABC affiliate for nearly ten years before leaving in 2021. Continue reading at AdWeek
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My first episode of network television was viewed by more people than all of Shakespeare’s works in his lifetime. At least that’s what my agent claimed when the Nielsen Ratings came in. I had written the 1989 season premiere of The Wonder Years and its viewership ranked just behind the likes of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
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Publishing execs pushed back on tariff and macroeconomic climate fears in Q1 2025 earnings calls, expressing confidence that their businesses would grow this year. Continue reading at Digiday
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The declining power of the Murdoch press is part of the wider story of the waning influence of mainstream mediaAustralia news live: latest politics and federal election updatesFull federal election results: live Australian Senate seat countGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news... Continue reading at The Guardian
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A top anchor at ABC News is looking to sell his West Village townhouse.World News Tonight host David Muir has listed the 2,300-square-foot prewar property on West Fourth Street for $7.5 million, according to an ad that appeared this week. The narrow, 15-foot-wide home contains five levels, three... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Nielsen report indicates streaming has dominated 53% of Asian Americans’ total TV time. Continue reading at AdWeek
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No breach, self-regulatory Australian Press Council rules; plus BBC embarks on big bureau expansionSign up to get Guardian Australia’s weekly media diary as a free newsletterWhen is an undisclosed advertorial, paid for by the fossil fuel industry and splashed across the front pages of all the... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Columnist for the Australian delivers monologue on Labor’s power bill promise, while his colleagues at the paper decide the Liberal leader won the debate after allWant to get this in your inbox every Friday? Sign up for the Weekly Beast media newsletter hereChris Uhlmann, who is not exactly a... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Neeson steps into the role of the bumbling detective made famous by Leslie Nielsen in the TV show and film series created by the Zucker Abrahams Zucker teamThe first footage has been released of Paramount’s upcoming reboot of the much-loved Naked Gun series of spoof police movies. The new film... Continue reading at The Guardian
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Fox Corp. plans to vacate a quarter of its space at 1211 Sixth Ave., a move that would come only three years after Rupert Murdoch’s media empire agreed to stay in the Midtown tower until 2042.Fox intends in November to leave 330,000 of its 1.25 million square feet in the building, credit-rating... Continue reading at Crains New York
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Analysis of Nielsen billings reveals how creative and media agencies fared in 2024, with more than half in both sectors reporting increases. Media agencies in particular showed some bounceback from a gloomy 2023. Continue reading at Media Week
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The power of friendship pushed the Netflix drama series Sweet Magnolias to the top of the chart of the most-watched streaming title for the week of Feb. 10, according to Nielsen Streaming Content Ratings. Season 4 of Sweet Magnolias, which debuted in second place the... Continue reading at AdWeek
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According to Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation KNR TV, the Demokraatit Party won nearly 30% of the vote. The center-right Demokraatit Party won the most votes in a surprising result in Greenland’s parliamentary elections, held in the shadow of U.S. President Donald Trump’s stated goal of... Continue reading at Fast Company
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