Harvey Levin

Harvey Levin Tells How TMZ Broke Michael Jackson Death News

Michael Lewittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Lewittes

One year ago today, an e-mail alert came across my Blackberry. There was silence across the office. Michael Jackson had died at the age of 50. And celebrity blog TMZ had broken the news exclusively.

Harvey Levin Vows TMZ Will Fight In Mel Gibson Case

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

LOS ANGELES — The founder of TMZ.com is promising a fight, saying the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department illegally obtained his phone recor...

US Transfers Airport Security From TSA to TMZ

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Andy Borowitz

Effective immediately, TSA personnel will be replaced at the nation's airports by camera-wielding paparazzi who will be paid by TMZ for revealing photographs of passengers.

Jackson Funeral Won't Convince Followers He Is Dead

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 11.17.2011

Francesca Biller-Safran

Since Elvis, the social pathos and obsession with celebrities has grown more than a hundred-fold, and this King of Pop will never be laid to rest or allowed to rest in peace.

TMZ's Harvey Levin On Jackson Scoop: "We Just Beat Everybody On This One... Too Bad, So Sad" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

TMZ scooped the traditional media when it broke the news of Michael Jackson's death, and has been steadily earning more respect as it forges its own p...

The Day the '80s Died

Derek Henry Flood | Posted 06.29.2011

Derek Henry Flood

It has been thirty years since the 1980's began with the death of disco and a frowning Ayatollah Khomeni returning to Tehran and embarrassing President Jimmy Carter with his arduous hostage standoff.

TMZ, 700 Club Pass FCC's News Test: "Bona Fide Newscasts"

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

In a development certain to astonish, the FCC has ruled that Fox's "TMZ" and the Christian Broadcast Network's "The 700 Club" are "bona fide newscasts...

TMZ Breaks Convention, Identifies 14-Year Old Alleged Sex Crime Victim

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEW YORK — Breaking with standards widely followed by the mainstream news media, the celebrity Web site TMZ posted a story Wednesday about a 14-...

"People's Court Raw" To Be You-Tube Style People's Court, Courtesy Of Harvey Levin

Portfolio.com Mixed Media | Jeff Bercovici | Posted 05.25.2011

Will Harvey Levin's tabloid touch yield another web hit? Over the weekend, I stumbled across what appears to be a stealth-marketing campaign for a ne...

CBS May Eliminate "Evening News" Anchor If Couric Leaves: Report

Huffington Post via TMZ | Posted 05.25.2011

According to TMZ, Katie Couric will leave CBS on her own terms and the network will likely eliminate the "Evening News" anchor altogether. Further, T...

Media Thanks Part II: Even More Delicious The Next Day!

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 05.25.2011

Happy day after Thanksgiving! We hope you had fun yesterday with your loved ones, friends and families as you trypped the light (to)phantastic and joi...

TMZ TV Is A Legit Hit

New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 05.25.2011

The early success of "TMZ," a new syndicated television show based on the popular Web site of the same name, illustrates just how valuable the celebri...

TMZ TV Under Scrutiny By Celeb Publicists

Hollywood Today | Alex Ben Block | Posted 05.25.2011

The real life antics of Paris Hilton, Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith turned Harvey Levin's TMZ into a hot gossip web site, but how that will tra...

TMZ TV Ready For Its Close Up

Los Angleles | SCOTT COLLINS | Posted 05.25.2011

Harvey Levin sounded, as he so often does, excited. The co-founder of the celebrity-gossip site TMZ.com was sitting on a videotape that he knew could...