The Writers Guild Strike Primer: Part 6, Journalism 101
Both participants have agreed to a news blackout. With news limited, therefore, an ever greater need exists to understand the various information sources.
Both participants have agreed to a news blackout. With news limited, therefore, an ever greater need exists to understand the various information sources.
AP | Frazier Moore | Posted 11.27.2007 | Entertainment
The writers strike is in its fourth week, with chilly prospects for viewing ahead. During December, the schedule will be dominated by holiday special...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 11.27.2007 | Entertainment
I am thrilled to give you a report on how today's much-anticipated resumed contract talks went between the writers and the producers. And they went we...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 11.26.2007 | Entertainment
As the WGA strike begins its 4th week, I've been told positive news about today's resumption of contract talks between the writers and the producers. ...
Silicon Valley Insider | Michael Learmonth | Posted 11.26.2007 | Business
Hollywood's writers and producers return this week for a three-day negotiating session. Who's got the upper hand? Depends on who's handicapping the fi...
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 11.26.2007 | Media
When some striking members of the Writers Guild of America created a series of videos depicting speechless actors in support of the writers' cause, th...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.26.2007 | Media
Today, as we enter the fourth week of the writers' strike — and the first day of resumed negotiations between sides — the New York Times ...
AP | Gary Gentile | Posted 11.26.2007 | Entertainment
Striking TV and movie writers kept up the pressure on studios by picketing and intensifying an Internet campaign that uses the very medium at issue i...
New York Times | Brooks Barnes | Posted 11.25.2007 | Media
When the 12,000 members of the Writers Guild of America decided on Nov. 4 to strike, Hollywood wondered how hard the white-collar group would fight. T...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki FInke | Posted 11.25.2007 | Media
This is the tenth of the Writers Guild Of America member-conceived Internet videos for Project "Speechless" featuring A-list Screen Actors Guild talen...
The Independent On Sunday | Andrew Gumbel | Posted 11.24.2007 | Media
With some of America's favourite television programmes pushed off the air and high-profile film projects biting the dust, Hollywood's studio bosses an...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 11.24.2007 | Media
This is the eighth of the Writers Guild Of America member-conceived Internet videos for Project "Speechless" featuring A-list Screen Actors Guild tale...
Variety | MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, JOSEF ADALIAN | Posted 11.23.2007 | Media
In 1988, a writers strike helped steer viewers to the fledgling Fox network. Now, the 2007 scribe shutdown could give another upstart, the CW, a neede...
Variety | Iain Blair | Posted 11.21.2007 | Entertainment
The Academy Awards ceremony is set for Feb. 24, but now that the writers' strike has become a reality, it may well take some of the luster off the gol...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.21.2007 | Politics
The Democratic frontrunners for the presidential nomination have all announced that they will forgo CBS News' upcoming presidential debate unless the ...
AP | Posted 11.21.2007 | Entertainment
Elizabeth Taylor says striking TV and film writers will briefly put down their picket signs when an AIDS benefit performance is held next month on the...
Deadline Hollywood Daily | Posted 11.20.2007 | Entertainment
On Thanksgiving Day (November 22), a group of Writers Guild Of America members will begin posting Public Service Announcements featuring A-list Screen...
AP | Beth Harris | Posted 11.19.2007 | Entertainment
Jimmy Kimmel worked without a net at the American Music Awards. The late-night comic ad-libbed most of his way through hosting Sunday's live three-hou...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.18.2007 | Media
Here's ETP's recap of Saturday night's Live SNL stage show at the UCB, from host Michael Cera's monologue to musical guest Yo La Tengo to Will Forte's golden-sheathed codpiece to what Norah Jones and Fred Armisen's naked butt have in common.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 11.18.2007 | Home
I recently sat down with Steven Paul Mark, formerly of Comedy Central, and chatted about the writers' strike, Colbert For President, and the Daily Show blackout's impact on campaign overage.
AP | DERRIK J. LANG | | Posted 11.18.2007 | Entertainment
It wasn't live from New York as usual. About 150 audience members in a tiny Manhattan theater were the only folks in the world to witness a totally n...
Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.17.2007 | Media
The writer's strike continues, and, after two weeks, the effects are being felt amongst network staffers. Today's Page Six reports that NBC has laid o...
Huffington Post | Posted 11.17.2007 | Entertainment
Shortly after the WGA agreed to return to talks on November 26, Patric M. Verrone, President, WGAW, sent the following email, Subject: Don't Break Ou...
AP | Posted 11.16.2007 | Entertainment
Hollywood film and TV writers who've been on strike nearly two weeks will return to contract negotiations on Nov. 26, their union and producers said F...
Entertainment Weekly | Tanner Stransky | Posted 11.16.2007 | Entertainment
Check here to see how many new episodes are left for these prime-time shows before the writers' strike puts them on involuntary hiatus 0 NEW EPISODES...
Before the largest crowd of his campaign, Democratic presidential contender Barack...
John McCain's famously cozy relationship with the press is getting a bit testy. Taking questions in...
**UPDATE 7/25** ThinkProgress now reports that the bar...
There is one more John McCain gaffe that...
As we have observed throughout the last several years,...
In a flagrant political act, the State Department has...
Major news organizations are drawing...
"Extra" has learned that Heather Mills' publicist, Michele Elyzabeth, has...
Will the mainstream media cover the John Edwards love child scandal put out there by the...
I have a wait problem. I hate to wait. When...
WASHINGTON — Congress approved mortgage relief for 400,000...
Ashcroft Claims Waterboarding...
Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 11.27.2007 | Entertainment