For some reason the The NY Daily News (and Drudge) think that Al Sharpton's dating habits are news.
The paper writes that the civil rights activist and MSNBC star, 58, is dating 35-year-old Aisha McShaw, a Westchester “personal stylist” who has been seen on Sharpton’s arm at several recent black-tie affairs.
Two things shock me...
First, if Sharpton is a "star" at MSNBC, no wonder why their ratings suck. Second, he's only 58?! He looks like he's 75.
The American Journalism Review is going to stop printing their magazine and become a student run website that will be subscription based.
AJR says they will end production of its print edition and launch a redesigned website in Fall 2013 as it becomes an online-only publication, the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism announced Wednesday.
Most of AJR's content will be produced by Merrill College students under the guidance of Merrill faculty members Leslie Walker and Sean Mussenden.
"The model for publishing has clearly shifted to digital formats as online readership has grown," said Merrill College Dean Lucy A. Dalglish. "It no longer made financial sense for the award-winning AJR to continue producing a print magazine because most AJR readers accessed content on the Web. In addition, philanthropy has long been an important source of funding for print magazines devoted to media criticism. That support has steadily declined over the past 10 years."
A fireworks store when up in flames in Indiana. The fire at Windy City Fireworks broke out last night and pretty much destroyed the entire store.
But, it was one damn good looking fire for local news Photographers.
Two media outlets called me and 3 more sent me emails asking me for my take on Rolling Stone magazine cover?
The cover features Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and both CVS and Walgreens had said they will not stock the magazine.
I have no clue why people are calling me and asking for my opinion, who cares what I think?
But since they asked, here's my thought.
I feel as a Journalist and I think that every Journalist feels the same way...Rolling Stone has every right to put what they want on the cover. CVS and Walgreens have every right not to put the magazine on their shelves.
That's what makes this a great country.
End of story, over and done.
Phil Kent is going to leave his post as CEO of Turner Broadcasting in January.
Kent is the guy that hired former NBCUniversal CEO Jeff Zucker to run CNN.
The Change was announced Wednesday morning in a memo to Turner staffers.
Kent will remain chairman of TBS for a period in 2014. He will be succeeded by Time Warner chief financial officer John Martin.
H/T Variety
I don't care what you think, this guy is better than the Weatherman at your station. How he hasn't been hired by a top market station yet is beyond us.?
Here's his forecast for Today.
With ratings slipping and Fox launching a competitive channel, ESPN is willing to take a risk.
They are hiring back Keith Olbermann.
Olbermann who has worn out his welcome at just about everyplace he's worked is batting around the order again.
After being away for 16 years, Olbermann is coming back to ESPN to host a talk show, but this time there's a catch.
Olbermann can not talk about politics.
The NY Times says that in his new deal, Olbermann will be free to discuss matters other than sports, including pop culture and current events, but not politics, the two-year pact specifies.
All we can say to ESPN is ....Good Luck with that.
Former TV Reporter Kristyn Caddell is speaking out on video about being the other woman to NBC's Chris Hanson.
Caddell breaks down in tears on the video posted by Radar Online.
She says it is a double standard that women get the blame for affairs and men walk free.
"A double standard is an understatement as to what happens in this industry," Caddell says.
In the candid interview, she also says that if she can’t work because of their affair, then Hansen also should not be allowed to work.
“Then, to essentially get taken down, because of a man, who has a lot of money and a lot of fame, it is not a good feeling. That is what happened to me.” Hanson is best know for his "To Catch a Predator" series on NBC's Dateline.
Caddell lost her job, while Hanson is still working for NBC.
She says her biggest crime was being naive.
She says that she can not find a job and no one will hire her. She points out that there are a number of people in TV news that have been arrested and have mugshots posted online that are still working in TV news....yet she can't find a job.
Video of her emotional interview. after the jump.
Read MoreIt was a lawsuit the airline was never going to win and it appears that they themselves have figured that out.
Asiana Airlines says they have decided NOT to pursue a lawsuit against KTVU in San Francisco.
Monday, the airline said they were going ahead with their lawsuit against the station after claiming that it damaged their reputation.
I think after looking at their crashed airliner sitting at the end of the San Francisco Airport runway, they might have seen the irony in that lawsuit.
It's been dropped...giving KTVU their first good news in the past 6 days.
It's a shame that Jon Stewart is taking the Summer off. It would have been great to see how he handled the KTVU fake pilot names mess. But, we get the next best thing with Stephen Colbert giving his take.
Colbert gets a couple of facts wrong but it is still very funny.
Let's roll the video:
Yesterday, FTVLive told you the story about an KCBS/KTLA (Los Angeles) news crew that was attacked while covering protests of the George Zimmerman verdict.
Left Coast TV watchers tell FTVLive while it was KCBS/KCAL crew that got jumped, it was KTTV Fox 11 that was the first to report the story.
With the Fox 11 chopper flying overhead, KTTV anchor Laura Diaz reported that a friend of hers "there at the scene" tipped her with news of the attack on the CBS crew.
Diaz herself is a former KCBS anchor, so we're guessing that her "friend" was an old co-worker.
Word is that Diaz and the gang over at KTTV took some delight in beating KCBS on a story that involved them.
The news crew that was jumped suffered only minor injuries.
He is returning to the scene of the crime.
After being off the network for 16 years, sometime Today ESPN is going to announce that Keith Olbermann is going to return to the sports network to host a one hour program on ESPN 2.
The over/under is that he lasts 8 months.
Place your bets now.
27,605
Do you know what that number is?
According to the RTNDA that is how many people are working in TV News right now.
How does that number compare to last year? Down 48 people.
Dspite a better economy and what seems to be a lot more hiring, TV news is not adding jobs.
And one of the reasons why....all the consolidation or stations. You have seen it many times, a company that owns a station in the market buys another station in the same market. That company then merges the news operations and people loose their jobs.
More of the study breakdown after the jump.
Read MoreHLN's Nancy Grace made a racist comment during the George Zimmerman coverage and HLN appears to be just sweeping it under the rug.
Grace used a racial stereotype to refer to Zimmerman during her reaction to the closing statement from Zimmerman attorney Mark O'Mara.
Grace rolled a clip where O'Mara says 'I want you to really, really look at those instructions, apply them, and just say he acted in self-defense,' O'Mara had said in his final words to the Sanford, Florida jury. 'Find him not guilty. Let him go back and get back to his life.'
'Give George Zimmerman back his life?' Grace shouts after the clip ran.
'Give Zimmerman back his life? He’s [been] out on bond, driving through Taco Bell every night, having a churro,' she said.
More, plus the video after the leap.
Read MoreKENS (San Antonio) traffic reporter Natalie Tejeda is getting out of traffic and into news anchoring.
Tejeda said she's leaving the station next month for an anchor/reporter job in Birmingham, Ala. At CBS station WIAT-TV, she'll anchor on weekends, do some nightside reporting and presumably enjoy better hours.
Although Birmingham is a slight drop in market size — No. 40 vs. San Antonio's current ranking of 37th — Tejeda said the job represents not only a step up in her career but also a way to be closer to her family.
“They live in Atlanta,” which she said is only 21/2 hours from Birmingham.
She said she's sorry to leave KENS, particularly now that executive news director Triston Sanders is, as she put it, bringing some welcome “fresh blood” to the station. But the new job will offer more opportunities for her to grow, she added.
The obligatory News Director soundbite after the jump.
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