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Newspapers Ramp Up for Awards Season
As more "traditional" print media expand their online presence, the folks who already inhabit that space are not always happy. Movie City News founder David Poland is not thrilled that as award season looms---with its inflated ad buys---the NYT, the LAT and the trade papers are boosting their online strategies.
Variety.com is starting its long in-depth coverage of the awards season on Awards Central.com. UPDATE: In Contention.com blogger Kris Tapley will be supplying a new Oscar blog for the site.
NYT media columnist David Carr says he is returning to Oscar blogging duty sometime in November in his The Carpetbagger guise; he says he'll focus more on the New York side of things and churn out more stories for print first, blog later.
And the LAT is beefing up its awards season supplement (full of ads, natch), The Envelope, both in print and online.
Beginning this week the world's friendliest film critic, Maxim's Pete Hammond, who used to cover the Oscar season for Tom Tapp's Hollywood Wiretap, will kick off a new awards season column.
Todd Martens, former associate editor and staff writer at Billboard, is The Envelope's new music columnist.
Mark Olsen, a regular LAT contributor, will report on awards and write regular features.
The Envelope editorial team is lead by consulting editor Gregory Ellwood, a former consultant for Variety on the Boffo project, who used to work for Paramount Pictiures and still writes his twice a week column on MSN.com. My old THR colleague and fellow blogger Sheigh Crabtree, who until recently was supplying entertainment reporting to the LAT, is now the LATimes.com's associate entertainment editor overseeing The Envelope.
[Montage created for awardsdaily.]
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Anne, you might want to credit that graphic - it was made by Ryan C. Adams for Awardsdaily.com.
People might mistakenly think you built it. :-)
Posted by: Sasha Stone | October 04, 2007 at 10:48 AM