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June 03, 2009
More Media Blood
The Hollywood Reporter keeps being drained of its last drips of blood.
And Village Voice Media said goodbye to another key person on the team, LA Weekly's Laurie Ochoa, who hired Crazy Nikki Finke in the first place... and quickly lost control of her monster. (Interesting that Nikki's been as silent about her creator's exit as she was about her colleagues who were nominated for AAN awards a few weeks back.)
But it's a fascinating choice to adios the wife of your Pulitzer winning food critic, Jonathan Gold. Perhaps Ochoa is going on to better things. But if it's not that clean, wouldn't it serve, say, the LA TImes rather well to bring a locally focused Pulitzer winner into the fold, online and off? Hmmm...
Meanwhile, what is the next iteration of the LA Weekly going to look like? Could the VVM bosses be planning on... uh... lowering their standards further?
Meanwhile, we're getting to the moment where all the online start-ups hoping to get Oscar ads try to secure name writers who will draw interest - and ad dollars - from studios. Who will get Anne Thompson, the most legitimate available writer available? Or Pete Hammond? My guess is that Anne will go to the highest bidder... which sanity would suggest should be Variety itself, though she seems to want to put her kit in with The Daily Beast. Pete? He could be back at LAT. They don't really have a better option and it's his most high profile option to keep image up as he goes into host mode for the season. Tapley, Stone, and Wells seem likely to stay out there on their own, hoping/expecting to generate more than any of the lowball offers out there on their own.
It's going to be a loooong fall as some of the established outlets and new-ish funded efforts, looking six months ahead, start to worry about their financial survival in a real way.
Posted by dpoland at June 3, 2009 03:21 PM
Comments
The real question, DP, is who is going to take a chance on ME, The InSneider, whose (admittedly not great) Oscar picks appeared on The Envelope last year and who is now the National Movie Awards expert for Examiner.com. Only 25, camera-ready, willing to say or ask anything of anyone, and with nearly 3 years of Variety service under my belt. I come cheap too. Well... cheap enough.
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at June 3, 2009 05:42 PM
Seems fairly standard procedure not to comment on a departed coworker.
Posted by: LYT at June 3, 2009 09:00 PM
When the fuck is G4 going to hire me?
LEX AND MUNN 2010. MAKE IT HAPPEN.
Posted by: LexG at June 4, 2009 12:44 AM
Talk about a prophetic thread: Trade publication Radio & Records shut down yesterday with no warning.
If it happened to R&R it could certainly happen to THR.
Posted by: Chucky in Jersey at June 4, 2009 08:59 AM
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