Tim Arango Is Next NYT Baghdad Bureau Chief
In your jobby Friday media column: Rebecca Dana to Newsweek, Foster Kamer to Esquire, Tim Arango to Baghdad, and Barry Diller to the easy life. And, Emily Brill.
Ludacris Seeks Secrets of Virgins
John Hodgman wants you to cover up; Rebecca Dana wants you to imagine a serious Today; and Ludacris wants to know how to thwart your chastity plans. The Twitterati were instructional.
Are Powerful 'Blacks' After Harry Reid?
Dave Winer said we give "blacks" too much power; Touré said sterotypically black leaders aren't allowed much power at all; and Tila Tequila celebrated the power of a new contract. The Twitterati had control issues.
Bribes, Tell Offs and Bragging Bless Twitterati Holidays
Ben Parr was offered payola; Rebecca Dana let loose on the Wall Streeet Journal; and Paris Hilton had an unlikely encounter with Dr. Dre. The Twitterati didn't need to drink to let loose.
Bill Keller's Had Enough of Your 'Jokes.' Jerk
In your famous Friday media column: exclusive thoughts from Steven Brill on the future of paid online newspapers, Rebecca Dana gets a new job, newspapers die and thrive, and Bill Keller will never be on the Daily Show again.
The Sultriest Wall Street Journal Headcut Ever
The Wall Street Journal is fronting its new "Speakeasy" website with perhaps the sultriest headcut it has ever run, a stipple portrait of hotshot young reporter Rebecca Dana. At least the paper nailed one part of it's blogging strategy!
Trash-Talking Reporter Fulfills Promise To Kick Times' Ass
The Wall Street Journal's scoop about Katie Couric's CBS Evening News exit has a deliciously bitchy media backstory: The Journal reporter who broke the news, Rebecca Dana, last year lost a plum staff position at the Times for bragging to her friends that she would "kick [Times TV reporter] Bill Carter's ass" once she…
Roger Ailes On His Secrets Of Success
It's so hard not to love Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch's evil henchman and honcho of Fox News and the new Fox Business Network. Here's his notable quotable from a Q&A with Rebecca Dana in the Wall Street Journal: People say, 'How can you? You didn't go to Columbia Journalism School, how can you run a news…
We hear that Rebecca Dana, who left the TV beat at the New York Observer to go to the New York Times but was shanked on her way in the door, has taken Brooks Barnes's old job—or an iteration of it—covering TV for the Wall Street Journal.
Rebecca Dana Back On The 'Observer's Late Shift?
So what's behind the mystery of Rebecca Dana's employment status? Dana, you'll remember, was plucked from the Observer to join the Times. Yesterday's Broadcasting & Cable suggested that she might be staying at the pink paper after all. Why would that be? The following rumor is making the rounds:
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Media Bubble: Is the Couric Move a Done Deal?
• "Katie Couric's deal to move to CBS News is completed in principle, and an announcement that she is leaving NBC might come as early as this week." Which would be a relief, so we could finally stop hearing speculation about it. [TV Week]
• Budget Living's failure shows that indie mags just don't work anymore. But…
