Jeffrey Toobin

TV, Wall Street Bigwigs Fete Erin Burnett at CNN Launch Party - Posted September 28, 2011
[caption id="attachment_89793" align="alignleft" width="585" caption="Mark Whitaker, Jim Walton, Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett, Piers Morgan and Ken Jautz"][/caption] Last night CNN feted its newest anchor, Erin Burnett, at Robert restaurant at The Muse... [FishbowlNY]

CNN.com ME Credits 'Pilates' for Site's Success - Posted June 8, 2011
The key to the dominance recorded in the online news sector by CNN.com? Pilates. Pilates? Not the workout, but the online strategy CNN.com managing editor Meredith Artley discus... [TVNewser]

The "Heroes" of Journolist - Posted July 27, 2010
Today the bloodbath of Journolist pauses for The Daily Caller's superhero edition of Journolist. In this story by Jonathan Strong, certain Journolisters are praised for "integrity" and "civility." The "heroes" include: Journolist founder, WaPo's ... [FishbowlDC]

Beck Sells Over 132,000 Copies of Overton; Toobin Signs New Deal - Posted June 29, 2010
•The numbers are in and FNC host Glenn Beck sold over 132,000 copies of his new novel The Overton Window in one week's time. As we reported ... [TVNewser]

Jeffrey Toobin to Write Book about the Supreme Court & Barack Obama - Posted June 29, 2010
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Separated at Birth: CNN's Jeffrey Toobin and FNC's Neil Cavuto - Posted June 1, 2010
CNN's Jeffrey Toobin and FNC's Neil Cavuto fall into the twin category. ... [FishbowlDC]

CNN's Jeffrey Toobin on Elena Kagan: 'Funny, well-informed...She's Good Company' - Posted May 12, 2010
When CNN's Jeffrey Toobin offers analysis on U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, get used to hearing these two words: Full Disclosure. To avoid the appearance of a conflict, Toobin informs viewers, up front, about his long friendship with the Solicitor Gene... [TVNewser]

NBC Breaks Kagan News When Toobin Could Have Called - Posted May 10, 2010
CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin missed the boat on getting the scoop on Solicitor General Elena Kagan being chosen as President Obama's Supreme Court nominee. "I guess that makes me less than a journalist," Toobin said on CNN late Sunday night after NBC broke the ... [FishbowlDC]

MSNBC Could Keep David Shuster Off the Air Indefinitely - Posted April 5, 2010
MSNBC bad boy David Shuster may be on his third strike. Shuster won't be on the air today for his 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. shows, according to MSNBC insiders. Whether he returns before his contract expires in December is up for debate. Shuster's last appearance was at 10 a.m.... [TVNewser]

Amanpour, Couric, Maddow, Toobin to Address 2010 Grads - Posted February 21, 2010
With the 2010 commencement season just a few months away, here's the latest on which newsers will be imparting words of wisdom to this year's graduates: • CNN's Christiane Amanpour is slated to be the 2010 ... [TVNewser]

Winter Olympic Winners Icy With Press | National Enquirer Gets Legit | Toobin In Trouble | Buzzed to Death - Posted February 18, 2010
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Sonia Sotomayor Sworn In - Posted August 8, 2009
Sonia Sotomayor is now an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. The cable news networks and ABC News broadcast the swearing-in which occurred just after 11amET at the Supreme Court -- the first swearing-in at the high court in more than 70 years. More recently the associate justices have been... [TVNewser]

What's It Like To Cover The Sotomayor Hearings? - Posted July 15, 2009
Many of you can probably answer that question for yourself (boring), but for those of you off the Judge Sonia Sotomayor beat this week, Mediaite's Rachel... [FishbowlDC]

SCOTUS Reporters Reveal Feelings About The Biggest Story They'll Cover All Year - Posted July 15, 2009
For the past couple days, the network and cable news channels have looked more like CSPAN, thanks to the nonstop coverage of Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Although the hearings have been rigidly structured, stuffy and sort of dry, there is ... [FishbowlNY]

Sonia Sotomayor Hearings Underway - Posted July 13, 2009
The Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings are underway on Capitol Hill. The three cable news channels are covering them live, as is PBS. HLN is keeping a small box in the lower right corner reminding anyone watching in an airport that the hearings are on. And PBS is doing it old-school --... [TVNewser]

More Sotomayor Coverage Notes: CNN - Posted July 9, 2009
Wolf Blitzer will anchor CNN's special coverage of the confirmation hearings on Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination beginning Monday at 10am. Blitzer will be joined by CNN's Gloria Borger, Candy Crowley, ... [FishbowlDC]

And Now For the Next Big Live Event... Sonia Sotomayor - Posted July 7, 2009
As we were live blogging the Michael Jackson memorial service it got us thinking about the next big live news event - the confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, which begins Monday. So far, here's what you can expect: the cable news channels are planning on taking the Senate Judiciary... [TVNewser]

Lunch: Hoda Kotb & Bravo's Housewives Hold Court - Posted June 17, 2009
— DIANE CLEHANE It was SRO at Michael's today, and although the place was filled to the brim with movers and shakers of every stripe, all eyes were on table one: Today's Hoda Kotb presided over a raucous l... [FishbowlNY]

Supremes Author on the Supreme Pick - Posted May 11, 2009
Gail Shister TVNewser Columnist It doesn't happen every year and there are no (visible) shoulder pads, but covering the search for a new Supreme Court justice is "the Nerd Super Bowl" for CNN's Jeffrey Toobin. Explain yourself, counselor. "The [judges'] written opinions ca... [TVNewser]

Secret Society Of Journalists Online - Posted March 17, 2009
Journalist are losing their jobs left and right and most are blaming the internet&#151you know, when they're not blaming the economy. With all of this resentment towards the internet, the last place you would think to find journalists is in a community online. That is exactly where they are... [MediaJobsDaily]

Morning Media Menu: January 23 - Posted January 23, 2009
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Jeffrey Toobin (and Mom) on Today's "Menu" - Posted January 22, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu we had generations of journalists, as CNN senior analyst Jeffrey Toobin (or, Jeffrey R. Toobin — check the podcast) and his mother, Marlene Sa... [TVNewser]

Tomorrow's "Menu": Toobin & Mom - Posted January 21, 2009
These two people on the left will be on tomorrow's mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu. They are CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and his mother, Marlene Sanders. Yesterday ... [TVNewser]

Inauguration Notes: The Day After - Posted January 21, 2009
• The New York Times' Alessandra Stanley takes a wide look at the spectrum of TV coverage yesterday. "Viewers were never quite sure where to look: Television celebrated a new president making history, but the screen also belonged to those millions in Washington who made history just by showing up,... [TVNewser]

CNNer Follows In Mom's Footsteps - Posted January 20, 2009
Who is this current CNN correspondent with his mom (a former tvnewser herself)?It's Jeffrey Toobin. TVNewser obtained an email Toobin sent to CNN s... [TVNewser]

CNN/TIME Politics '08: Toobin Talks TVNewser - Posted October 15, 2008
After all the stories coming out of the CNN/TIME Politics '08 conference this week, we've got one more today. The Huffington Post's Rachel Sklar has ... [TVNewser]

CNN/TIME Politics '08: Greenfield, Graydon and More - Posted October 14, 2008
The CNN/TIME Politics '08 conference kicked off yesterday with Time Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes saying, "There has never been and never will be a substitute for quality." TVNewser twittered the first panel, moderated by ... [TVNewser]

CNN/TIME Politics '08: Late Afternoon Sessions - Posted October 13, 2008
The 10th floor of the Time Warner Center was packed with journalists, college students and others today, as CNN and Time Magazine co-hosted their Politics 2008 conference. TVNewser twittered two of ... [TVNewser]

The Ticker: Schieffer, Toobin, Matthews... - Posted October 6, 2008
> CBS' Bob Schieffer will have a busy day tomorrow has a busy week. Besides presidential debate coverage, he made his Grand Ole Opry debut Sunday, as his band, Honky Tonk Confidential, takes the stage along with several other acts, including Darius Rucker and ... [TVNewser]

The New Yorker's Love/Hate Relationship With Labash - Posted October 2, 2008
Remember when Jeffrey Toobin, writing in the New Yorker, had to confess in June that he should have given a "shout-out" to Weekly Standard's Matt Labash for ... [FishbowlDC]

Cable News Snapshot: Pre-Debate Edition - Posted September 26, 2008
The lead in to tonight's debate on the cablers appears to be similar to the usual schedule, but with slight variations. First on CNN, Campbell Brown: Election Center is being called, "Debate Night in America," and is co-anchored by Wolf Blitzer. Jeffrey T... [TVNewser]

Sunday Show Preview - Posted September 26, 2008
Meet the Press: Bill Clinton. Tom Brokaw will moderate a debate between Colorado Senate candidates Mark Udall (D) and Bob Schaffer (R). Face the Nation: ... [FishbowlDC]

13 Years Later, No More O.J. For Toobin - Posted September 23, 2008
Gail Shister TVNewser Columnist O.J. who? Thirteen years after O.J. Simpson's murder trial riveted viewers, his latest tango with the criminal justice system is a yawn, says CNN legal ace Jeffrey Toobin. Toobin, who candidly acknowledges h... [TVNewser]

More on CNN's "Best Political Team On Television" - Posted September 9, 2008
So TNR's Greg Weis thinks that CNN really does have the best political team on television. Choice nugget from his piece: On the night I first saw his beard in person, it was no easier for me to accept what I empirically knew to be true: that, during the 2008 primary season, ... [FishbowlDC]

Nearly Everyone's a Winner with RADAR's Charles Kaiser - Posted January 9, 2008
RADAR posts their Winners and Sinners list but Charles Kaiser sounds more like a gushing fanboy than any sharp media critic. He squashes some low-hanging fruit, like Deborah "Didn't I Ask That?" Solom... [FishbowlLA]

Torch-Passing, TVNewser Style - Posted July 26, 2007
For a couple hours, the back room at Michael's was transformed into a television news executive bender, a happy hour in honor of our outgoing TVNewser, Brian Stelter [right], and incoming TVNewser, er, 'Newsers: Chris Ariens, Diane Clehane, Alissa Kinsky and Philadelphia Inq... [FishbowlNY]

Now it's Google Book & Map Search - Posted January 29, 2007
The debate about whether Google Book Search is a good thing or a bad thing is a topic that the New Yorker's Jeffrey Toobin handles very well, but for those in the latter camp, they likely won't appreciate Google's newest invention, which will let people plot on maps refe... [GalleyCat]