FishbowlLA: Dan Rather discussed the end of the world and goats today; why haven’t you?
TVNewser: Chris Cuomo is making his CNN debut anchor tonight. It will likely involve 100 percent blizzard talk, so watch at your own risk.
TVSpy: A scandal is afoot in Fargo! No, seriously! Okay, it’s really not that exciting. We tried.
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Cristina Cuomo, wife of ABC News’ Chris Cuomo, is the new editor-in-chief of Manhattan. Cuomo was most recently editor-in-chief of the now shuttered Plum Hamptons. She was previously group editor for Niche Media’s regional publications and editor-in-chief of Gotham.
In related news, Manhattan’s publisher, Modern Luxury, has named James Aguiar its national fashion director.
“We’ve seen tremendous growth in our luxury titles nationwide and are excited that Cristina will bring her editorial savvy and tremendous experience to Manhattan,” said Michael Dickey, president of Modern Luxury. “Adding James to our leadership team on the national level is a sign of our commitment to providing readers with the best and most current fashion coverage.”
UnBeige: Ron Arad has designed glasses that “free people from the tyranny of the hinge.” Sounds, uh, exciting?Here it is everybody! This week’s episode of “5 Things You Need to Know This Week,” which includes an interview with Speaker of the House John Boehner, a discussion about Chris Cuomo‘s stash of nudie photos, and a very special musical performance.
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TVNewser: Juju Chang has been picked to be the new “Good Morning America” newsreader. She will replace Chris Cuomo, who is in negotiations to become co-anchor of “20/20″ and to report for other ABC News broadcasts.
New York Times: Google, The New York Times and The Washington Post have teamed up to present “Living Stories.”
All Things Digital: Magazine publisher Hachette Filipacchi is pairing with MSN and production company BermanBraun to launch a “lifestyle site aimed at fashion, decor, relationships and beauty.”
Mediaweek: Starting in January, Good Housekeeping will publish content from its archives to celebrate its 125th anniversary.
Huffington Post: Days after New York Times reporter Peter Baker criticized the addition of reporters from The Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo to the White House pool, Arianna Huffington shot back at him, calling his recent coverage of President Barack Obama‘s decision on Afghanistan “stenography.” “Perhaps he should spend less time worrying about that and more time worrying that his own reportorial ‘scrupulous passivity’ so easily leads to the insertion of the administration’s desired spin into the reporting on momentous decisions of war and peace,” Huffington said in response to Baker’s criticism of the pool appointments.
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WebNewser: CNN.com has named Los Angeles Times managing editor, online Meredith Artley VP and managing editor.
BayNewser: The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal are both reportedly launching Bay Area-specific editions of their papers. BayNewser asks: five years from now, who do you think is going to be the go-to news source for Bay Area coverage?
AdAge: A new Nielsen report shows that ad spending dropped 15.4 percent during the first half of 2009 compared to the first half of 2008 — the biggest drop since the company first started calculating these figures in 2002.
Folio: Electronic Gaming Monthly, which was shuttered in January, will likely relaunch in December, says founder Steve Harris, who purchased the title back from Ziff Davis earlier this year.
ABC News: Jon Gosselin will be on “Primetime” tonight, speaking out for the first time about his divorce from Kate. He tells interviewer Chris Cuomo he “despises” Kate and claims he was verbally abused.
We’re always surprised to hear of new magazine launches during the current crisis in the media world, but entrepreneurs Greg Sullivan and Joe Diaz are moving forward with the launch of their travel magazine AFAR set for August.
Today, Sullivan and Diaz hired media sales veterans Chris Cuomo and Cha Mueller to head up AFAR‘s ad sales team.
Cuomo, the founder of media sales company C2-Media, previously worked at National Geographic, Time Inc., Thomson Financial and Gannett. Mueller, who also founded a boutique media sales company called Chalamode LLC (where she currently represents Dwell), has previously worked for Gourmet and The Sporting News.
Full release after the jump
Today on the Menu, having just returned from the tallest building in Dubai as part of ABC’s “Big” week, Chris Cuomo joins us to chat large.
Cuomo is a recent convert to Twitter (and we mean recent! He just joined last Friday) but is already quite excited and a bit wide-eyed (in the best way) about its potential “it’s a tremendous resource for feedback, and intelligent discussion…I’ve been really blown away by that.” (We should set Cuomo up with Rome Hartman, maybe!)
“I think you, at your own peril, ignore the latest iterations of media, opines Cuomo, who says that he’s interested in using Twitter to find out what was not said in his ABC stories. Perhaps a Twitter-themed Cuomo Web cast? Sounds entirely possible. Also, what’s up with @alroker1? You can listen to all the past podcasts at BlogTalkRadio.com/mediabistro and call in at 646-929-0321.
On the menu at today’s lunch: a tasty stew of pop culture icons, publishing legends and power brokers — with a side of TV’s young-ish guns. There must have been big things afoot. Instead of the usual glad-handing and table-hopping, most diners were deep in conversation and slipped in and out without much fanfare. We barely recognized Dan Abrams, who had exchanged his clean cut pinstripes for a four o’clock shadow and a tieless khaki suit. We had to look twice when a downright subdued Tina Brown almost slipped past us. Then we settled in and watched the show:
Table 1. The top power spot was occupied by some interesting and intriguing folks today. The early show: Howard Rubenstein and guests. Now that we’ve been doing this for a while, we’ve noticed that the master of spin likes to dine, dish and be on his way before most of the other movers and shakers have had a chance to order their Fiji waters. Second shift: Judge Robert Keating presiding over a table full of jovial guests. Here’s an interesting bit of NYC trivia: the bow-tied jurist set up the first Midtown Community Court in Times Square in 1993 when the tourist trap was attracting a whole different type of thrill seeker. His forward-thinking move helped to all but eliminate the low level crime that was so rampant during the mid eighties and early nineties. Remember those dark days?
2. Peter Brown and Time‘s Michael Elliot. The jet-setting Mr. Elliot tells us he is currently based in New York but is splitting his time between Time‘s London office (where he edits the Europe, Middle East and Africa editions) and Hong Kong (for the Asia edition).
3. 60 Minutes‘ Steve Croft and MTV’s John Sykes.
4. Wayne Tabach.
5. Time Inc.’s John Huey with a cool, Grace Kelly-ish blonde we didn’t recognize.
6. MSNBC’s general manager and legal eagle Dan Abrams with Good Morning America‘s newish news anchor Chris Cuomo. Good to see you Chris, after your close call in Iraq …
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