Blog Entries by Michael Calderone from 05/2011

Bin Laden Killed: Media Scrambles To Cover News

Posted 05.02.2011 | Media

NEW YORK – White House reporters sharing a laugh with President Obama on Saturday night found themselves racing online and soberly appearing on came...

Network Anchors Head To Ground Zero For Bin Laden Coverage

Posted 05.02.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- Network anchors who recently got their passports stamped in Egypt, Japan and London aren’t rushing out on flights to Pakistan to further...

Scott Pelley, New CBS Anchor, On Competition: ‘We Want To Win'

Posted 05.04.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- When Scott Pelley spoke to staffers in the Washington D.C. bureau Wednesday, his first stop since being named Katie Couric's successor as ...

Reuters Defends Decision To Publish Bin Laden Compound Photos

Posted 05.04.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- The White House isn’t releasing photos of Osama bin Laden’s dead body, but that didn’t stop Reuters from publishing several gruesome...

Associated Press Won't Cover Fox News GOP Debate (UPDATED)

Posted 05.04.2011 | Media

The Associated Press will not be covering Thursday’s Republican presidential debate “because of restrictions placed on media access,” according ...

Wall Street Journal Launches Its Own WikiLeaks

Posted 05.05.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- The Wall Street Journal wasn’t on the receiving end of major WikiLeaks document dumps on Iraq, Afghanistan, the State Dept. and Guantana...

National Magazine Award Winners Revealed

Posted 05.10.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- Katie Couric kicked off Monday’s National Magazine Awards dinner by heaping praise on the influential editors, designers and writers gat...

New York Times 'Week In Review' Relaunch: Columnists Will Get More Space

Posted 05.11.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- New York Times staffers in the editorial and news departments have been working for several months to reinvent the paper’s “Week in Re...

Matt Drudge Hires Washington Times Columnist Charles Hurt

Posted 05.12.2011 | Media

The Drudge Report is heading into the presidential election season with something it didn't have four years ago -- two veteran political journalists o...

New York Times 'Week In Review' Relaunch: Editor Bill Keller Wants Newsroom Involved

Posted 05.13.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- New York Times executive editor Bill Keller sent a message to the newsroom Thursday: there's still a place for reporters in the paper's so...

Katie Couric's Last Day On 'CBS Evening News': May 19

Posted 05.13.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- Katie Couric plans to announce on Friday's “CBS Evening News” that her last night anchoring the broadcast will be Thursday, May 19, ac...

Bloomberg News Expands White House Team

Posted 05.13.2011 | Media

Margaret Talev, who's been covering the Obama White House for McClatchy Newspapers, will soon be heading to Bloomberg News, according to a source with...

Washington Post Disputes Study Touting Drudge's Influence (UPDATE)

Posted 05.16.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- The Washington Post is pushing back against a much-discussed new study that claims the Drudge Report website drives 15 percent of the pape...

CNN Names Sam Feist New Washington Bureau Chief

Posted 05.17.2011 | Media

CNN executives searched far and wide for a new Washington bureau chief only to find one right back in the bureau. On Tuesday, CNN promoted network vet...

NBC's David Gregory Defends Medicare Question As Newt Gingrich Spokesman Blasts Media ‘Minions'

Posted 05.18.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- When Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) sits down on “Meet the Press” this Sunday, he can expect to be asked about former House Speaker Newt Ging...

Al Gore Claims Rupert Murdoch Is Pushing Current Italia Off Air Because He Hired Keith Olbermann

Posted 05.19.2011 | Media

NEW YORK – Current TV executives went on the offensive Thursday, claiming that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is pushing Current Italia off the...

Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Thinks Sarah Palin Is 'Stupid': New York Magazine (UPDATE)

Posted 05.22.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- Fox News still dominates the cable news ratings, but chairman Roger Ailes wants something more: to help elect the next president. That...

New York Times Readies 'Sunday Review' Opinion Section

Posted 05.23.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- When New York Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal told staff Monday that reporter Frank Bruni will soon get a Sunday Op-Ed column, ...

Rolling Stone: Roger Ailes, Fox News Chief, 'Selling Fear'

Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- Roger Ailes' week isn't over yet. On the heels of New York magazine's bombshell cover story on Ailes' influence over the Republican Par...

WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange Calls Media Coverage Of Bradley Manning 'Appalling'

Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange called out the Obama administration for its aggressive pursuit of leakers and criticized media co...

The Daily, Rupert Murdoch's iPad Paper, Loses Another Staffer

Posted 05.27.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- In the months leading up to Rupert Murdoch's unveiling of The Daily at the Guggenheim Museum, the buzz in media circles centered on all th...