Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Brian Williams: ‘I Am Presently Too Much A Part of The News, Due to My Actions’ (TVNewser) Brian Williams will step aside from NBC Nightly News for the next \»several days\» to address questions raised about a story Williams told of being in a helicopter… Continue reading Morning Media Newsfeed: Williams Steps Aside | O’Donnell to Leave The View

“We expect big things from Australia.” So says Huffington Post chief executive officer Jimmy Maymann of the outlet’s plans to launch the outlet’s 14th international edition in the second quarter of 2015. The move comes on the heels of similar moves by BuzzFeed and Mashable. From the announcement: “Australia is a rare combination of both… Continue reading Fairfax Media Beats Out Yahoo!7, News Corp for HuffPost Australia Partnership

Mr. President, which era of Taylor Swift are you? If we’re lucky, that will be one of the questions posed to President Obama, during BuzzFeed’s first presidential interview. The session will take place February 10, with BuzzFeed’s editor-in-chief Ben Smith asking Obama questions during a sit-down at The White House. As with all things BuzzFeed,… Continue reading BuzzFeed to Interview President Obama

When Suge Knight, on behalf of talk show host Arsenio Hall, demanded in February of 2014 an apology from Brian Williams, no one could have guessed how dramatically things were going to veer from there. Not to mention coincidentally. On January 29, 2015, Suge Knight was involved in a fatal hit-and-run in Los Angeles and… Continue reading A Year Later, Suge Knight is in Jail and Brian Williams is Off the Air

At the 1982 Grammy Awards, John Lennon and Yoko Ono‘s Double Fantasy won Album of the Year. It was Lennon’s first collection of original studio material since 1974 and was released in November 1980, a month before the ex-Beatle was shot and killed in New York City. Now comes the Taschen limited edition Collector’s Edition… Continue reading Book Celebrates Yoko’s ‘Happiest Time’ with John Lennon

What a week it has been for Emily Sharp, a freshman journalism major at Oklahoma University and assistant life and arts editor for student newspaper The Oklahoma Daily. On Super Bowl Sunday, very close to the exact moment when Pete Carroll and his offensive coordinator were (wr)etching their names into the Bungle Hall of Fame,… Continue reading Student Journalist Answers Jack White’s Concert Stage Admonition

It’s a long way from Nolensville, Tennessee to Los Angeles, CA. But as Dave Paulson, an entertainment and music reporter for The Tennessean breezily reminds, that’s the captivating story behind Meghan Trainor‘s gargantuan hit song \»All About That Bass,\» competing Sunday in the Grammy categories of Song of the Year and Record of the Year. Here’s… Continue reading All About That Laptop Song List

First off, let’s start with the way Lucky Group president Gillian Gorman Round framed the layoffs this week at Lucky magazine to New York Post media reporter Keith J. Kelly. His sources say around 15 were let go; Round puts the number at under ten: \»We were just doing some readjusting on the editorial side.\»… Continue reading An Unlucky Thursday for These Magazine Staffers

At an event last night at The New School, New York Times columnist David Carr moderated a panel on podcasting’s resurgence. The discussion featured Sarah Koenig, whose wildly popular “Serial” podcast, exploring the true story of a 1999 murder of an 18-year-old student in Baltimore, has to date reached 65 million total downloads. Alongside Koenig were… Continue reading David Carr, Sarah Koenig on ‘Serial’ and Podcasting

Crain’s New York reporter Cara S. Trager was unable to get Observer Media Group executives to comment. But according to her very reputable other sources (two Observer staffers, advertisers), the Winter 2014 issue of Yue magazine is the publication’s 13th unlucky final one. From her report: Yue was a joint venture between the Observer Media… Continue reading Observer Media Group No Longer Looking at Yue