October
28
Media Slashing Hollywood Journos
As the economy continues to crunch, the media world is downsizing. Maer Roshan's beloved Radar mag is no more; American Media tabloid mogul David Pecker has acquired Radar online as a celebrity-oriented rival to Harvey Levin's TMZ.
During Slate's latest round of cutbacks and editorial shifts, the online news site slashed Kim Masters' Hollywood blog. Slate wants more reviewers, she told me. One of the great entertainment industry reporters, Masters is still a full-time staffer for National Public Radio. She filed weekly Hollywood stories for Slate for a monthly fee. She's currently working on a reported piece for Tina Brown at The Daily Beast. Look for Masters to work something out there.
Fred Schruers is no longer filing the Hollywood Deal blog for Portfolio.com, another magazine/online venture that may or may not survive these troubling times. Ad sales are tumbling everywhere, with the economy. Here is Schruer's last post, on Paul Newman. While Schruers did some one-off reporting for a Daily Beast project, he has always excelled at long-form journalism (like Masters, he's a Premiere alumnus), and is hoping to set up a high-profile book project.
My old THR colleague Sheigh Crabtree is leaving the LAT. The last time we talked, she didn't know what she would do next. But she boasts a strong skill set: her cred is both print and online. Jeffrey Wells doesn't seem to get that Crabtree is an online animal. That will get her where she wants to go--if she chooses to stay in journalism. UPDATE: (She has sold a screenplay, for one thing.)
And as a sign of the times, the venerable Christian Science Monitor is abandoning its print edition next April in favor of an online version.
[Photos: The Daily Beast's Tina Brown, NPR's Kim Masters, Fred Schruers]





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