Blog Entries by Michael Calderone from 06/2011

Jill Abramson, Just-Named New York Times Editor, Ready To 'Seize The Future'

Posted 06.02.2011 | Media

NEW YORK – When publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. recently told Jill Abramson that he wanted her to be the next executive editor of The New York Times...

New York Times Movie Hits Screens Amid Management Shakeup (VIDEO)

Posted 06.03.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- The New York Times made it onto page one of Friday’s New York Times. In a management shakeup the day before, the paper announced th...

Glenn Beck Launching Online Network, New Show Upon Leaving Fox News (VIDEO)

Posted 06.07.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- Glenn Beck promised radio listeners Tuesday that his forthcoming subscriber-based online network will not be "like anything else you've se...

New York Times Staffers Buzzing About Next Washington Bureau Chief

Posted 06.08.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- At 5 p.m. on Monday afternoon, New York Times staffers in the paper's Washington bureau gathered to toast outgoing bureau chief Dean Baque...

Hearst Launches New App Lab: A Digital 'Think Tank'

Posted 06.09.2011 | Media

NEW YORK – Hearst Corporation unveiled a new "App Lab" Thursday that the publishing company hopes will showcase its digital editions for advertisers...

CNN Prepares For New Hampshire GOP Debate And The Long 2012 Race (VIDEO)

Posted 06.13.2011 | Media

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- While political pundits began speculating about the 2012 election just as the 2010 midterm results trickled in, news executives s...

Rick Santorum: 'This Race Is Wide Open'

Posted 06.13.2011 | Politics

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- Political observers may have anointed Mitt Romney the current GOP frontrunner following recent polls, but presidential hopeful Ric...

Glenn Beck's Jerusalem Rally: GOP Presidential Candidates Not Planning To Attend, Despite Report

Posted 06.15.2011 | Media

Are Republican 2012 presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, and Newt Gingrich really heading to Jerusalem in August for Glenn Beck's "R...

Associated Press: Libya Conflict A 'Civil War'

Posted 06.15.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- As Congress increases pressure on the White House to define the legal grounds for U.S. military involvement in Libya, one of the countryâ€...

The Daily Hires Tom Lowry As Business Editor

Posted 06.17.2011 | Media

The Daily made a big hire Friday, scooping up Variety’s Tom Lowry as the tablet publication’s new business editor. Daily editor-in-chief Jesse...

Keith Olbermann Talks New 'Countdown,' 2012 Coverage, And Why He's Not Watching Cable News

Posted 06.17.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- As Keith Olbermann gears up for Monday's launch of "Countdown" on Current TV, the outspoken cable host -- and his new network's top execut...

Networks Shuffle White House Correspondents

Posted 06.20.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- The game of White House briefing room musical chairs continued Monday with another high-profile TV journalist grabbing a new seat in the p...

Van Jones Considers Legal Action Against Fox News, Demands Glenn Beck Retraction

Posted 06.20.2011 | Media

NEW YORK –- After challenging Glenn Beck to a debate over the weekend at Netroots Nation and in a MoveOn.org-sponsored ad Monday, Van Jones may have...

Washington Post Passed On Jose Antonio Vargas' 'Undocumented Immigrant' Story

Posted 06.22.2011 | Media

NEW YORK –- Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas shocked the media world Wednesday by revealing that he’s an undocumented immigra...

Washington Post's Dan Balz In Talks With Reuters (EXCLUSIVE)

Posted 06.24.2011 | Media

Washington Post political reporter Dan Balz is considering leaving the paper after more than three decades on staff. Balz is currently in talks wit...

CNN Names Jessica Yellin Chief White House Correspondent

Posted 06.28.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- CNN announced Tuesday that Jessica Yellin will be the network’s new chief White House correspondent, replacing the Fox News-bound Ed Hen...

Associated Press Opening North Korea Bureau

Posted 06.29.2011 | Media

NEW YORK -- North Korea, a totalitarian country ranked near the bottom in the world on the press freedom index, presents one of the toughest challenge...