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Lachlan Murdoch Close To Buying Billboard, Hollywood Reporter: Report

Guardian | Chris Tryhorn | Posted 11.30.2009 | Media


Lachlan Murdoch is reported to be close to buying US trade magazines including the music and entertainment industry bibles Billboard and the Hollywood...

Hollywood Reporter To Be Sold To James Finkelstein

The Wrap | Sharon Waxman | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media


The Hollywood Reporter and several other Nielsen entertainment titles are set to be sold to James Finkelstein's News Communications Inc., owner of "W...

The End of the Affair in Hollywood

Candy Spelling | Posted 10.17.2009 | Entertainment


Candy Spelling

Big stars are going public on Facebook and Twitter with complaints about other stars. Guys, that's a real no-no. That's why you have publicists and agents and managers and all those other handlers.

Variety Site Going Behind Paywall

AP | RYAN NAKASHIMA | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media


LOS ANGELES — Ending a three-year flirtation with free online content, Variety newspaper plans to put some of its Web site content behind a "pay...

No Excuses: Why The TV Nets Must Carry Obama's Press Conference This Week

Eric Boehlert | Posted 08.20.2009 | Media


Eric Boehlert

The unprecedented pity party television executives have been throwing themselves since Obama was inaugurated continues.

Roger Friedman, Fired Fox News Entertainment Columnist, Joins The Hollywood Reporter

Hollywood Reporter | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media


Veteran entertainment reporter and columnist Roger Friedman is joining The Hollywood Reporter as a senior correspondent....

Trade Journos No-Shows at Cannes

Rex Weiner | Posted 06.12.2009 | Media


Rex Weiner

The fact that the venerable entertainment industry trades are sending fewer reporters to Cannes marks the end of one of the juicier assignments in the field of journalism.

Media Mayhem: Layoffs, Cutbacks Rock Industry

Huffington Post | Posted 03.02.2009 | Media


Below, a collection of the various media cuts, layoffs, ousters, and other doom and gloom news to hit the industry in the last day or so: The Baltimo...

Hollywood Reporter For Sale: Report

Waxword | Sharon Waxman | Posted 09.07.2008 | Media


Since I broke this story two days ago, media executives have weighed in to confirm that The Hollywood Reporter, along with the other 41 titles at Niel...

Celebrity Gossip or Truth: It Doesn't Even Matter

Candy Spelling | Posted 08.06.2008 | Entertainment


Candy Spelling

I don't like reading retractions. I like reading news that's true, or at least the product of good reporting.

On The Inadvisability Of Apologizing

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I have given this a lot of thought over the last several years and come to the conclusion that it is almost never a good idea for anybody in our culture to apologize about anything, even when they are in the wrong

HBO Cancels "Inside The NFL" After 31 Years

Hollywood Reporter | Paul J. Gough | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


More than 30 years after it began its run on HBO, "Inside the NFL" is leaving the field after Wednesday night's show. The signature highlights show t...