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Anything But a (Star-Spangled) Banner Week at Wenner Media
Holy cow. According to Lisa Granatstein, managing editor at Mediabistro’s very-soon-to-be sister publication Adweek, this happened at Wenner Media: [COO John] Gruber was ordered to fire Rolling Stone‘s...
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Michael Provus Named Rolling Stone Publisher
Michael Provus has been promoted from associate publisher to publisher of Rolling Stone. Provus had served as associate publisher since 2010. Provus is succeeding Chris McLoughlin, who announced he was...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: Palin Eyes The View | Rolling Stone Appoints Publisher
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Is Sarah Palin Pitching Herself to The View? (THR / The Live Feed) Sportsman Channel has picked up a second season of Amazing...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: O’Donnell’s Return Official | Emmy Noms Favor CNN,...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Rosie O’Donnell Officially Returning to The View (TVNewser) Rosie O’Donnell is returning to The View as a co-host in the fall, ABC...
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Colleague Remembers a ‘Great Anarchist of New Journalism’
Be sure to read David Felton‘s wonderful essay in Rolling Stone about friend and former magazine colleague Charles M. Young, who passed away Monday after a long, courageous battle with cancer. Felton...
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Taylor Swift Worries About ‘The Janitor Who’s Being Paid by TMZ’
It’s only Monday. But in terms of quotable pop culture quotes, contributing editor Josh Eells‘ Rolling Stone cover story on Taylor Swift is going to be very hard this week to beat. There’s the bit...
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Wenner Media CRO Bolts to Apple University
Last month, the New York Times offered a rare peek inside Apple’s internal employee training program. Reporter Brian X. Chen didn’t exactly get a mountain of details from the three staffers he spoke...
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Rolling Stone Adds Two
Rolling Stone has named Mark Oltarsh associate publisher and Kerri Bergman as head of marketing. Both will report to Michael Provus, the glossy’s publisher. Oltarsh was most recntly the founder and CEO...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: Leno Set to Launch CNBC Show | NBC Courted Stewart...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Jay Leno Nears Deal to Launch CNBC Show (THR / The Live Feed) Jay Leno is lining up his first regular television hosting gig since...
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So What Do You Do, Amelia McDonell-Parry, Editor-in-Chief of TheFrisky.com?
Amelia McDonell-Parry, editor-in-chief of the popular women’s lifestyle site TheFrisky.com, is probably the last person you’d expect to find at a men’s magazine like Maxim. And yet, McDonell-Parry’s...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: Raven to Retire From A&E | NBC Undecided on Virgin...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. A&E Networks Chairman Abbe Raven to Retire (THR) Cable pioneer Abbe Raven is set to retire. Her last day as chairman of...
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Cover Battle: Rolling Stone or Shape
Welcome back to another edition of FishbowlNY’s weekly Cover Battle. This round we have Rolling Stone taking on Shape. Rolling Stone’s latest cover features a very young Bob Dylan trying his best to...
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Ex-New York Media Pair Sell Telluride Weekly
Given the current state of print media, this is probably about as good as it can get in a smaller market like Telluride. Eighteen years after launching The Watch as a fax newsletter, Seth Cagin and...
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NY Lands Four in Rolling Stone’s ’15 Worst Owners in Sports’ List
It will come as no surprise to fans of the Knicks, Islanders, Mets or Jets, but the owners of those franchises were all chosen by Rolling Stone as among the “15 Worst Owners in Sports.” Luckily for New...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: Sony Probes North Korea Link to Hack | Ex-CBC Host...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Sony Pictures Investigates North Korea Link in Hack (Re/code) Sony Pictures Entertainment is exploring the possibility that...
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Rolling Stone Names U2 Album that Pissed Everyone Off Best of 2014
Out of all the albums released this year, Rolling Stone has named U2′s Songs of Innocence the best. Never mind that the album enraged almost every iPhone user for automatically being included on a...
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A Huge Black Eye for Rolling Stone Magazine
It’s every magazine editor’s worst nightmare. One that, per a Note to Readers posted today at the top of the November 19 Rolling Stone article heard around the U.S. college campus world (“A Rape on...
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Morning Media Newsfeed: Crowley to Leave CNN | Mass Exodus at TNR, Issue Canned
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Candy Crowley Leaving CNN (TVNewser) Candy Crowley, a 27-year CNN veteran, is leaving the network. The move was announced in an...
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More Holes in Rolling Stone UVA Rape Story
Rolling Stone’s UVA rape story continues to unravel. According to The Washington Post, the three students in the story told by “Jackie” — “Randall,” “Andy,” and “Cindy” — all dispute the account that...
View ArticleBarbara Walters Reveals Her Least Fascinating Interview
“And then there are the interviews you never want to do again.” So segued Barbara Walters last night on The Tonight Show, leading into a realm that sits at the opposite end of what she swears will be...
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