The Chicago Reader fired Mark Konkol ten days into his tenure as executive editor. Konkol’s first cover (pictured above) depicted gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker on the phone while sitting on a lawn jockey. In the corner, an FBI agent appears to listen him on his conversation. The cover came as a result […]
On September 19, 2014, Quinn Norton tweeted, “Today I realized I’d probably make a lot more money being a racist for @nytimes.” On Tuesday, Norton was hired by the New York Times to be their “lead opinion writer on the power, culture and consequences of technology.” However, she and the […]
Americans oftentimes criticize NBC’s coverage of the Opening Ceremony for the high amount of voiceover during the ceremony, but South Koreans were angered by NBC Asia analyst Joshua Cooper Ramo’s commentary on Japanese-Korean relations. Ramo, the vice chairman and co-chief executive of Kissinger Associates, said during the proceedings that Japan had […]
Television viewers tuning on MSNBC during the Olympics might have expected to see athletes around the world take part in sports like biathlon and bobsled, but instead they will find MSNBC’s standard daytime schedule. MSNBC, which typically gave up its daytime hours to the Olympics while keeping their usual morning and […]
Journalists at the Los Angeles Times have so far this year had their newsroom unionized, their publisher put on leave due to a sexual harassment investigation, a new editor-in-chief hired, a Tronc plan to create an alternative newsroom of contributors discovered, and a business editor suspended reportedly for leaking all this year (it’s […]
