National Enquirer
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Two Magazines Lose Top Talent After Short Tenures - Posted July 2, 2009
This week, we learned of two top magazine staffers, one publisher and one editor-in-chief, leaving their posts after just a few months on the job.
First came word that Susan Reed is leaving her spot as editor-in-chief at O, The Oprah Magazine after less than a year at the helm of the... [FishBowlNY]
People Disappears from Wal-Mart in Distribution Stand-Off - Posted February 4, 2009
One has to wonder at the logic of a magazine distribution standoff in the midst of a financial crisis that's threatening to sink the industry. Nonetheless (as threatened) Time Inc., American Media, and Bauer have pulled their magazines from Wal-Mart, the single biggest magazine retailer in the country, over a... [FishBowlNY]
Today's Roundup: Layoffs Hit NPR, AMI Near Bankruptcy - Posted December 10, 2008
Looks like the layoff wave has rolled into NPR. Despite reaching "near-record audience levels on-air and online," NPR has announced that due to the current economy and a shortfall in corporate underwriting they are laying off 7% of their workforce and cutting expenses: "A total of 64 filled positions... [FishBowlNY]
Page Six Retracts its Michelle Obama Caviar and Lobster Story - Posted October 21, 2008
Next time they should send the National Enquirer! Turns out that story Page Six ran last week (it's since been removed) about Michelle Obama ordering caviar and lobster to her Waldorf Astoria room wasn't true at all! Says Page Six's retraction in today's paper:The source who told us last... [FishBowlNY]
Where McCain is Concerned the National Enquirer Comes Up Smelling Like Roses - Posted August 22, 2008
This is interesting. Turns out the National Enquirer was also following the John McCain story back in February you remember, the one the NYT ran with all those questionable allusions to McCain's love life except they couldn't find enough evidence to run their own story. Ha.Five Enquirer... [FishBowlNY]
Friday Afternoon Future of Newspapers News Dump - Posted August 15, 2008
You know, it's summer and there's not that much of it left and soon enough it'll be September and we'll all have to return to the real world, or as close an approximation as the Internet allows. Now's the time for Michael Phelps in speedo bathing suits, and allowing the... [FishBowlNY]
Keep Your Friends Close and the National Enquirer Closer - Posted August 15, 2008
If Howard Wolfson is to be believed Hillary Clinton lost the nomination to Barack Obama because the press didn't uncover the John Edwards love child story in time for all those Edwards votes to go to her. Regrets, we've had a few, etc. It's a rather shaky theory... [FishBowlNY]
Keep Your Friends Close and the National Enquirer Closer - Posted August 15, 2008
If Howard Wolfson is to be believed Hillary Clinton lost the nomination to Barack Obama because the press didn't uncover the John Edwards love child story in time for all those Edwards votes to go to her. Regrets, we've had a few, etc. It's a rather shaky theory... [FishBowlNY]
The MSM Finally Meets the John Edwards Love Child - Posted August 11, 2008
Let the rationalizing begin! After the John Edwards story officially broke last Friday running almost non-stop on every cable channel many news organizations are now in the process of trying to explain why it took them so long to take up a story initially reported by the National... [FishBowlNY]
L.A. Times Bans Bloggers from Edwards Dirt - Posted July 28, 2008
The L.A. Times, be it ever so humble, has decided to dictate what constitutes news in them thar parts. The Left Coast Grey Lady, uninterested in what the National Enquirer might break, announced that no one -- not even bloggers, for gosh sakes -- will be allowed to write... [FishBowlLA]
L.A. Times Bans Bloggers from Edwards Dirt - Posted July 28, 2008
The L.A. Times, be it ever so humble, has decided to dictate what constitutes news in them thar parts. The Left Coast Grey Lady, uninterested in what the National Enquirer might break, announced that no one -- not even bloggers, for gosh sakes -- will be allowed to write... [FishBowlLA]
Edwards Off Short List for VP: Enquirer? - Posted July 23, 2008
John Edwards got his hand stuck in somebody's cookie jar and the result may mean no VP slot for Obama. The L.A. Times, of all places, picked up the story that no one would touch because it originated at, yikes!, the National Enquirer. But then in true tabloid fashion, the paper... [FishBowlLA]





