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Barack Is the New Brangelina!
MEDIA • Turns out Barack Obama's underwear is more interesting to Us Weekly readers than Britney Spears's custody battles. A Q&A with the Chicago senator in which he refused to answer the boxers-or-briefs question generated the some of the highest-ever traffic for a single article on the site, second only to news of Heath Ledger's death [WWD] • The Sam Zell bloodbath continues: The Tribune Co. owner axes 120 Newsday jobs. [NYP] •Is Matt Drudge the world's most powerful journalist? [Telegraph] • The FBI isn't happy with a recent Rolling Stone article on the Joint Terrorism Task Forces. [Mixed Media/Portfolio]
Posted 02/29/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Print Organizations Band Together, But Who Will Remain on the Island?
MEDIA • Print organizations make like Survivor: The New York Times, Hearst, Tribune, and Gannet form an alliance to back a new online company called quadrantONE. [USAT] • Star magazine makes no apologies for paying sources for scoops. In fact, "right underneath [Candace] Trunzo's editor's note in the current issue is an unbridled pitch with dollar signs around the edges." [NYP] • Bad blood is brewing between Barron's and CNBC after the publication ran a critical story about Mad Money's Jim Cramer. [CJR]
Posted 02/15/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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