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Join Us for a Special Post-Oscars Google+ Hangout

Richard Horgan — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:30:09 +0000

Will Emmanuelle Riva, the oldest nominee in Academy Awards history, pull off the unlikely upset in the Best Actress category and take the trophy away from Silver Linings Playbook’s Jennifer Lawrence? Can Daniel Day-Lewis cap his streak of memorable 2012 awards season acceptance speeches with one more rousing Lincoln moment? And will Seth MacFarlane zing and dance ABC to solid overnight ratings?

On Monday, February 25 at 8:30 a.m. PT / 11:30 a.m. ET, we’ll know the answers to these questions and much more. Join Gold Derby maestro Tom O’Neil, KCRW producer Darby Maloney (The Business), TVNewser senior editor Alex Weprin, GalleyCat editor Jason Boog and FishbowlLA co-editor Richard Horgan for a special post-Oscars Google+ hangout on the Mediabistro home page, FishbowlLA and at Google+. (You can also click into that link to request a reminder notification of the event.)

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Reporter Confirms: No Dead Guy This Year in Her Vegas Hotel Room

Richard Horgan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:45:07 +0000

It’s not every day that a journalist can casually tweet a link to a post about the time they checked into the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas and found a dead guy lying their hotel room.

But that’s the case this afternoon with Melissa Grego, the LA based executive editor of Broadcasting & Cable magazine, who re-tweeted her 2011 nightmare experience at the MGM Grand. While happily confirming that her 2012 NAB Vegas accomodations are CSI-free, she has also been exchanging some funny tweets with fellow journalists.

Grego told Alex Weprin, senior editor for our sister site TVNewser, that after the MGM Grotesque incident, she discovered to her dismay that dead bodies found by new guests in hotel rooms is not altogether uncommon. Meanwhile, David Douglas, a reporter for WISC-TV in Madison, WI, admitted this tops his Vegas walk-in episode:

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