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paging_filter The New York Times is offering buyouts to employees in its video department while also recruiting new video talent. Effective Tuesday, all members of the video staff will be eligible to apply for a buyout, and the Times will consider the offers on a case by case basis. Some layoffs could be possible, executive…
A version of this story first appeared in the Oct. 23 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. To receive the magazine, click here to subscribe. The central media currency is not audience, but trustworthy measurement. The television business was built on wide adoption of such a single standard. Nielsen’s sampling method determined the size…
Bernie Sanders garnered one of the biggest applause lines during the debate Tuesday night — and a trending hashtag — when he slammed the media for focusing on Hillary Clinton’s “damn emails” instead of asking the candidates about poverty, inequality, trade policies, and the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. But from watching television coverage of…
Google’s decision Thursday to shut down YouTube media buying on its programmatic network DoubleClick Ad Exchange (or AdX) signals the tech giant wants tighter control of its growing advertising ecosystem. But the attempt to create a so-called walled garden with video ads has some agency execs baffled. Under Google’s new rules, marketers won’t be able…
Keith Olbermann, the television anchor who left ESPN amid controversy, then left MSNBC amid controversy, then left Current TV amid controversy, is once again leaving ESPN amid controversy, less than two years after returning to the organization. Jim Miller, the author of the definitive book on ESPN’s history, reported Wednesday that Olbermann will leave the sports network…
On the first Friday in May, a line of advertising and media people stretched down New York’s West 22nd Street, waiting to hear from Shane Smith, the 45-year-old bearded and bearish co-founder of Vice. One of the media world’s most flamboyant ceos had an announcement to make. The occasion was the Digital Content NewFronts, a…
I spent the morning of London’s Pride parade hand-stitching dildos onto a flag. I’d been using the sex-toy motif in my work before I made a flag of Isis out of them and brought it to the march. Previously, I’ve attached dildos onto postcards from each country where homosexuality is still illegal to point out…
Don Lemon can’t help but attract controversy. The CNN Tonight host waded into the debate about President Obama‘s recent use of the n-word on Marc Maron‘s WTF podcast by holding up a sign with the racial epithet written in large capital letters and then asking the audience whether the word offended them. Lemon also tried…
REMOVE THIS COMMENT when Cheetahmail is ready. Roger Ailes in 2012. Photo: Charles Eshelman/FilmMagic For much of the past 15 years, Roger Ailes has operated with virtual impunity inside Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Nothing, it seemed, could induce Murdoch to rebuke Ailes publicly, even if Ailes forced Murdoch to choose between him and his sons….