The bobsled team did not lose as much weight as the men’s downhill skiers. This resulted in bobsledder Ethan Albrecht-Carrie getting called into the boardroom and boom- you’re fired.
‘Secret Millionaire’ episode held over debt complaints
Nine was forced to drop one of its episodes of The Secret Millionaire after one of its benefactors, Leanne Wesche, accrued debts said to be in the ‘hundreds of thousands.’
Media after the site
Tweet: What does the post-page, post-site, post-media media world look like? @stephenfry, that’s what.
The Equation for When to Quit Watching a TV Show
Even the best television shows run out of creative juice if they stay on the air long enough. But, when is the right time to give up hope a show will improve and abandon it forever?
NYT Writer Caught Plugging Restaurant Of Accused Murderer Ex-Boyfriend!
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First paragraph of this story is incredible.
New York Times travel writer Suzy Buckley is caught in a sensational tangle of journalistic ethics after notable watchdog blog NYT Picker reported that Buckley used the TMagazine travel section of the paper to recommend a burger joint owned by her former boyfriend. And, oh yeah, he’s been accused of murdering an unborn baby. Scary Times!
Vice’s Success Shows the Virtue of Cover-To-Cover Advertorial
The $250,000 that Vice Magazine spent on an exclusive party in Brooklyn last month was a good investment in at least one respect: Vice has gotten scads of free, adoring media attention since. In an era when Condé Nast can’t even afford newspaper subscriptions, any magazine, much less a free 150k circulation mag, throwing that kind of money around is big news.
The Vice Guide to Creating a Successful Publishing Empire
Perhaps you’ve seen this chart from the Awl, which shows via colorful line graphs exactly how screwed the magazine industry is. (Very screwed.) However, one magazine seems to be weathering…
Murdoch Warns That Without eTablets, “Newspapers Will Go Out Of Business.”
Old habits die hard. Rupert Murdoch believes that the future of the newspaper business is subscriptions—electronic subscriptions. He’s done with giving away his news for free on the Web and to…
The only thing cooler then this is if a bunch of people from Melbourne were behind it, writing about Melbourne.
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