Radar

Ana Marie Cox Joins Air America - Posted January 13, 2009
Ana Marie Cox has a new gig. The former Wonkette, Time and Radar contributor, online fundraiser, and current columnist for The Daily Beast can now add radio host to her resume. Air America has announced it has hired Cox as their D.C.-Based correspondent. According to the release Cox... [FishBowlNY]

Your Post-Radar Magazine Choices - Posted December 30, 2008
According to The Media is Dying those of you who were subscribers to the sadly now defunct Radar magazine can now have your choice of...wait for it...Star, Men's Fitness, or Shape. You know there was a time not that long ago where this post would have linked you to The Onion. ... [FishBowlNY]

Will it be Another Dark Friday for the Media World? - Posted November 21, 2008
Good morning media world, once again it's Friday. Since the (initial) collapse of the stock market back in mid-September Fridays have become bad news day in medialand, beginning with the folding of Radar and 02138 on what was then known as Black Friday but has since merely become the first... [FishBowlNY]

Radar: The Long Goodbye Continues - Posted October 28, 2008
Yep, everyone is still reeling from Friday's sudden folding of Radar and the horror show that has subsequently taken its place over at Radaronline. Former Radar-er (and current fundraiser) Ana Marie Cox and HuffPo's Jason Linkins have vlogged their own tribute to the magazine and its "vastly talented" staff below,... [FishBowlNY]

Radar Folding? [Updated] Magazine Folds, AMI Purchases Website - Posted October 24, 2008
Gawker is reporting (and FBNY has also heard separately from sources within) that Maer Roshan's multiply-launched magazine Radar is folding. The magazine, which pubbed at varying degrees of frequency, and was rumored to have been funded (at least in its later incarnations) by Ron Burkle, never really gave the impression... [FishBowlNY]

Gawker Lays Off 19 Editorial Staff Including Moe Tkacik - Posted October 3, 2008
Gawker had their own black Friday newsdump today. In a move that may soon become known as the Denton doctrine, Gawker head Nick Denton announced that he was preemptively laying off 19 members of the editorial staff, including recently hired Moe Tkacik, and suspending page view bonuses for the first... [FishBowlNY]

As the New York Media World Turns - Posted October 1, 2008
Two different stories are floating around the very fishbowl-like world of New York media today (hey we didn't just pluck our name from a hat). First off, Radar is reporting that Gawker may finally have found the managing editor they've been looking for in Gabriel Snyder, formerly of the New... [FishBowlNY]

Margaret B. Jones/Peggy Seltzer: Foundation a Fake, But What About Her Tattoo? - Posted March 6, 2008
Kevin Allman points out that the NYT decides that checking the facts is a good idea: If we can't find ways to check key facts, names, graduation claims, etc., we should hold the story until we can verify them, and if we can't, we should be suspicious. Live and learn... Ah, remember... [FishBowlLA]

Tionna Smalls Signs TV Deal - Posted January 29, 2008
Is that sound we hear Nick Denton gnashing his teeth? Atlas Media Corp. signed programming deals with Discovery Communications and Beyond Distribution for several new series, including Tionna Smalls --exclusive talent and reality series development deal for a series based on Tionna's life, times and career. When Denton decided to play... [FishBowlLA]

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?" Solomon, but practically wets himself in praising the unwatchable mess made by director Julie Taymor: Winner: Julie Taymor for Across... [FishBowlLA]

Pro Publica: Innovative or Insane? - Posted October 16, 2007
We're intrigued by the idea of a nonprofit group dedicated to advancing investigative reporting. But what a sorry state of affairs the Fourth Estate is in that newspapers aren't willing to fund this work with their 11-20 percent profit margins. Here's a small sampling of how the rest of the media world... [FishBowlLA]

Bad Sweater Guy Takes Issue With John McCain - Posted July 13, 2007
Radar reported earlier this week that John McCain is attributing his unraveling presidential campaign, in part, to the "gay sweaters" that his staffers made him wear. According to one insider, the knit-picking was the crescendo of a tirade by the Arizona senator, in which he blistered aides about the minutiae of the... [FishBowlLA]

Radar's Night Out with Sons of Hollywood - Posted April 9, 2007
Radar sent Thomas Patterson out with the Sons of Hollywood, and has what seems to be an ok time. David "Sammy Glick for the new millenium" Weintraub comes off as an operator, but at least he's got something on the ball. He's also the best looking. Something is wrong. Sean... [FishBowlLA]

FBLA Dares To Ask: Did Radar' s Ethnicist Rip Off Phillip Milano? - Posted January 18, 2007
Fond as FBLA is of Radar, we know a rip-off when we see one. The Ethnicist, while clever, is certainly very, very close to Phillip Milano's column, Dare to Ask. Considering that Milano's been writing the column for a number of years for the Florida Times Union in Jacksonville and... [FishBowlLA]

FBLA Dares To Ask: Did Radar' s Ethnicist Rip Off Phillip Milano? - Posted January 18, 2007
Fond as FBLA is of Radar, we know a rip-off when we see one. The Ethnicist, while clever, is certainly very, very close to Phillip Milano's column, Dare to Ask. Considering that Milano's been writing the column for a number of years for the Florida Times Union in Jacksonville and... [FishBowlLA]