Dylan Stableford

  • HuffPo Readies Sports, Tech, Books Verticals

    Site looking more and more like a newspaper.

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  • Olbermann Rips L.A. Times Over ‘Jackass’ Crack

    Finally, a Keith Olbermann dust-up that doesn’t involve Bill O’Reilly. As TVNewser noted, someone at the Los Angeles Times copy desk had a little fun with the Thursday television listings, inserting “Jackass” in the “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” slot. It was eventually corrected: The Prime-Time TV grid in Thursday’s Calendar section mistakenly listed MTV’s "Jackass"…

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  • Is ESPN The Mag Committing ‘Publishing Suicide’?

    The numbers are hard to fathom. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, a staggering 75 percent of consumer magazines saw their single-copy sales decline between June and December of 2008 — the most recent industry-wide stats available.   Advertising pages, meanwhile, plummeted 28 percent during the first half of the year, representing roughly $2.5…

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  • TLC’s Misogynistic, Homoerotic, Confusing Ad for ‘Police Women’

    Walking near Grand Central Terminal, I spotted this ad for TLC’s new reality series, “Police Women of Broward County” – a sort of “Cops: Women,” which premiered earlier this month.   Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for sexy, titillating ad campaigns. But they have to make sense. A few things to note. First, the…

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  • ‘Times,’ Others to Congress: Stop ‘Off the Record’ Briefings

    A group of news outlets led by the New York Times sent a memo today to over 600 press secretaries on Capitol Hill, urging them to stop the practice “off-the-record” briefings, particularly those given to large groups in public settings. “Unfortunately, the practice of granting ‘background’ or ‘off-the-record’ status to officials’ comments has gradually expanded…

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  • Obit: CBS News Legend Don Hewitt

    A month after Walter Cronkite, another CBS News giant has died. Don Hewitt, creator and legendary producer of newsmagazine “60 Minutes,” succumbed to pancreatic cancer at his Bridgehampton, New York home. He was 86. Hewitt’s career spanned over 60 years. As a producer, he directed legendary CBS reporters Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, produced the…

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  • CBS’ New Video Print Ad Misses an Opportunity

    As TheWrap reported earlier today, CBS has unveiled what it’s calling the first use of video in a print ad, one that will be inserted into an undetermined amount of copies of Entertainment Weekly next month.   I’ve toyed around with the ad, and it’s relatively cool, as far as these things go — though…

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  • TV News Pioneer Don Hewitt Dies

    Creator of ’60 Minutes’ succumbs to cancer at 86.

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  • CBS Unveils First ‘Video in Print’ Ad

    Promo for new and old fall shows — and for Pepsi Max — will appear in EW’s Fall Preview issue.

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  • ‘Onion’ Editor Calls HuffPo Headline ‘Wildly Sensational’

    Baratunde Thurston, a writer, comedian, web editor at “The Onion” and newly-minted television host, interviewed White House senior advisor Valerie Jarrett at the Netroots Nation conference in Pittsburgh over the weekend. The defining moment of the interview, according to the Huffington Post, “came when Jarrett was hissed and heckled.” Thurston, an occasional Huffington Post contributor…

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  • Time Inc.’s Odd Real Estate Investment

    Most big media companies based in New York are, in one way or another, also investors in real estate – the Hearst Tower, New York Times Building, the Time Warner Center, and Condé Nast’s digs at 4 Times Square to name a few. But most don’t flex their real estate muscle outside the city limits…

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  • How Tiger’s Choke Helped Vick’s ’60’

    The preliminary numbers on the big "exclusive" are in. CBS’ much-hyped “60 Minutes” exclusive with rehabilitated dog fighting felon Michael Vick led to a ratings win for the network. According to TVNewser, last night’s “60 Minutes” was watched by 12.1 million, leading to a 2.6 rating among the 18-to-49-year-old demo – up from 1.5 the…

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  • Reader’s Digest Files for Bankruptcy

    Board replaced, but CEO Berner stays on.

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  • HuffPo, Facebook Launch ‘Social News’

    The Huffington Post announced on Monday the launch of something called “HuffPost Social News,” a collaboration between the sprawling blog, news and aggregation site and Facebook.   The project uses the Facebook Connect feature to connect to Huffington Post readers already on Facebook, allowing them to share the stories they are commenting on with their…

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  • Vick Press Conference Takes Bite Out of ’60 Minutes’ Exclusive

        The problem with television “exclusives” – like magazine cover stories, newspaper leads and even online embargoes – is that the news doesn’t always cooperate. CBS’ “60 Minutes” landed a sit-down interview with Michael Vick, the NFL quarterback who spent 18 months in federal prison after being convicted of running a dog fighting ring.…

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