Media News

Do We Need Another Fox Crime Show? [TVNewser]
We have The Lineup with Kimberly Guilfoyle. We have Geraldo At Large. We see scandalous, cringe-inducing crime stories on cable almost every hour of every day. Do we really need another crime show produced by Fox News? (Pretend, for a moment, that Nancy Grace and Rita Cosby and Court TV don't exist.)

Preiss Imprints Shut Down Overnight [Galleycat]
Seven months after the death of Byron Preiss, a report on the Science Fiction Writers of America website indicates that his two most prominent publishing houses, Ibooks and Byron Preiss Visual Publications, have suddenly filed for bankruptcy and were emptying out their offices last night.

Vice Knows Where Osama's Hiding [FishbowlNY]
If a hipster-skateboard-drug-leaning-irreverent free monthly breaks an international news story, does anyone bother to read it?

Gannon Is Making the Rounds [FishbowlDC]
You just never know who you'll bump into at one of mediabistro's happy hours.

All the News That's Fit to Win [Unbeige]
The Society of News Design announced this week its two winners for its annual The World's Best Designed Newspapers.

Bio-degradable [MBToolbox]
When you're writing for the New Yorker, you don't get to use the cute bio. So you might as well get to enjoy one now.

Is there an Oscar media backlash? [FishbowlLA]
Obviously this is a odd Oscar year, what with the near-absence of major studio releases contending for big awards, and (relatedly, of course) the smaller-than-usual box office upswing for the nominees, not to mention the sprouting of so, so, so much Internet chatter and gay cowboy jokes.