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New Girl's Jake Johnson Is An 'Idiot With Technology' Oddly, he loves a pile of emails in the morning

Specs Who Jake Johnson Age 34 Accomplishments Stars as Nick Miller on Fox’s New Girl (Tuesdays at 9 p.m.); appears in the upcoming film Drinking Buddies with Olivia Wilde; UFC aficionado Base Los Angeles What’s…

March 19, 2013, 10:34 PM EDT

Pew Finds Digital News Consumption Up but Revenue Dwindling Industry less equipped to cover news, report finds

From big newspapers to local TV broadcasts, the news media continue to face severe challenges even though digital consumption is rapidly growing, according to the Pew Research Center’s 2013 State…

March 18, 2013, 12:00 AM EDT

CNN's Documentary Unit Officially Up and Running Big-name correspondents will host programs before and after docs

In addition to green-lighting nonfiction fare featuring personalities such as Anthony Bourdain and Morgan Spurlock, CNN’s new boss Jeff Zucker has kept in place CNN Films, new documentary production and…

March 15, 2013, 1:41 PM EDT

Shepard Smith Sleeps With His Samsung Galaxy Yet he still loves print

Who Shepard Smith Age 49 Accomplishments Host of The Fox Report With Shepard Smith; has been with Fox News since the network launched in 1996; was a correspondent for A Current Affair Base…

March 13, 2013, 2:15 AM EDT

Indie News Channels Look to Break Into Cable Can deep pockets + niche ideologies = success?

As cable operators angrily watch margins shrink and subscriber fees rise, independent networks are trying to wedge themselves into the gap—and nowhere is the field of hopefuls more crowded than…

March 4, 2013, 11:13 PM EST

Which Entertainment Show Is the Most Flattering to Celebrities? Hairstyles dominate the conversation

Poor celebrities. It doesn’t matter how much they spend on their clothes or work out at the gym. Sooner or later they’re going to flash a little too much skin…

February 20, 2013, 6:16 AM EST

How CNN Sells Breaking News The inside poop on managing TV’s most sensitive inventory

CNN took plenty of heat yesterday for its extensive coverage of Carnival’s ill-fated “Poop Cruise”—upon losing power in the Gulf of Mexico, the cruise ship Triumph transformed into a drifting…

February 15, 2013, 1:21 PM EST

How Comcast Scared Up All That GE Cash Deal to buy remaining 49 percent stake of NBCU will close by end of Q1

Comcast on Tuesday announced it will pay $16.7 billion to acquire the 49 percent stake in NBCUniversal owned by General Electric, a move that accelerates the buyout well ahead of…

February 12, 2013, 8:16 PM EST

Steve Capus Out at NBC News 'New direction' for longtime division president

NBC News president Steve Capus on Friday announced that he is leaving the network. In a memo issued to staffers, Capus said that while it is “an extremely difficult decision to…

February 1, 2013, 1:51 PM EST

Deadspin: An Oral History How an irreverent sports site made the big leagues

It all goes back to Ron Mexico. In 2005, The Smoking Gun broke the story of a legal complaint about a prominent athlete who “knowingly failed to advise” a partner that…

January 28, 2013, 12:01 AM EST

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