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Morning Media Newsfeed: Jansing Promoted | CBS Crew Detained | News Corp....
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Chris Jansing Named Senior White House Correspondent for NBC News (TVNewser) Changes are coming to NBC’s Washington bureau. NBC...
View ArticleIslands Magazine Still Sharing Those Naked Truths
On the website for Islands magazine, the long arm of Jonah Peretti is everywhere. Four of the six featured slides have that familiar Listicle stamp, teasing "15 Reasons to Vacation at Caneel Bay," "4...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: AT&T Advances DirecTV Talks | AP Expands | BuzzFeed...
[emailonly]{{{ sbox300x250 }}}[/emailonly] Click here to receive Mediabistro's Morning Media Newsfeed via email. AT&T Said to Be in Talks to Buy DirecTV for About $50 Billion (Bloomberg) AT&T...
View ArticleReport: Jezebel About to Lose Its EIC
Just the other day, we told you about Jezebel founder Anna Holmes heading to Fusion TV. Now, there are rumblings of a much bigger operational change. According to a report this afternoon by BuzzFeed's...
View ArticleNightline Pays a Visit to BuzzFeed Video HQ
In lieu of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, think of BuzzFeed's Los Angeles office on Beverly Blvd. as the equivalent of Ze Frank and the Viral Factory. Into which, for Nightline, dropped Nick...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Producer Shares Some Viral Video Mantras
If you've not yet seen the following BuzzFeed video, take a moment to check it out. Posted just ahead of Valentine's Day 2014, it examines the tendency of fashion magazines to Photoshop their cover...
View ArticleGawker Media ‘Kegerator’ Has Its Own Website
There's an interesting factoid in the latest bit of press for Queens-based and now bi-coastal company Joyride Coffee Distributors. According to freelance Post contributor Maridel Reyes, employees at...
View ArticleDeparted BuzzFeed COO Joins MailOnline
Some big media boardroom news today via Re/code's Peter Kafka. Jon Steinberg, the recent and former president-COO of BuzzFeed, has jumped to one of the very few other American websites that can rival...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Casey Kasem Dies at 82 | FCC to Investigate Netflix...
[emailonly]{{{ sbox300x250 }}}[/emailonly] Click here to receive Mediabistro's Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Casey Kasem, Wholesome Voice of Pop Radio, Dies at 82 (NYT) Casey Kasem, a disc jockey...
View ArticleKim Kardashian Breastfeeds the Media
Who needs The Onion's ClickHole when BuzzFeed gives you things like this? Below the headline "Kim Kardashian's Boobs Take North West For A Walk," writer Whitney Jefferson has embedded a half-dozen...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Amazon Unveils Fire Phone | Carney’s Final Briefing
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Amazon Launches Smartphone (GalleyCat) Amazon has gotten into the smartphone business with the launch of the Fire, Amazon’s first...
View ArticleMorning 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...
View ArticleNative Ads Beat Out Content from BuzzFeed, Mommy Blogs, Fox News
A third of the way through Contently co-founder Shane Snow‘s appearance today on Bloomberg TV’s Market Makers alongside Advertising Age‘s Michael Sebastian, details were shared about the online media...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Adds to Investigative Team, WSJ Designer Departs
A couple Revolving Door items this afternoon, involving BuzzFeed and The Wall Street Journal. Details are below. Kendall Taggart is joining BuzzFeed as an investigative data journalist. She comes to...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: WaPo Reporter Detained in Iran | Bloomberg Hires...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. WaPo Reporter, Other Journalists Appear to Have Been Detained in Iran (The Washington Post) Three American citizens, including the...
View ArticleBuzzFeed is Totally Cool with Plagiarism [Updated]
According to Gawker, BuzzFeed’s viral politics editor Benny Johnson was caught plagiarizing material three different times. To make matters worse, Johnson copied material from Yahoo! Answers of all...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Fires Staffer for 40 Instances of Plagiarism
It looks like the magic number was 40. BuzzFeed has decided to fire its viral politics editor, Benny Johnson, after finding that many instances of plagiarism in his work. In a note to readers,...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: BuzzFeed Editor Fired for Plagiarism | Palin Launches...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. BuzzFeed Fires Staffer for 40 Instances of Plagiarism (FishbowlNY) It looks like the magic number was 40. BuzzFeed has decided to...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: NewsHour Names Just EP | Discovery, Sony Make Gains
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. PBS NewsHour Names ABC’s Sara Just Executive Producer (FishbowlDC) PBS NewsHour announced Thursday that 25-plus year ABC News-er...
View ArticleGreg Coleman Named President of BuzzFeed
Greg Coleman, former president of The Huffington Post, has been named the new president of BuzzFeed. Coleman most recently served as president of the advertising tech company Criteo. Coleman will also...
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