 Gerry Baker |
Gerry Baker, former Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief and currently editor-at-large at the paper, is launching a Fox Business show Nov. 30. “WSJ At Large With Gerry Baker,” will air Fridays at 9:30 p.m., immediately following Maria Bartiromo’s “Wall Street.” Fox says that the show will feature “in-depth conversations with business titans and other financial influencers.” When Baker stepped down in June, it was announced he would get a Journal-branded program on Fox Business, which, like the Journal, is part of the Murdoch family’s media holdings. Fox Business is in the process of revamping its primetime schedule, having also recently added “Trish Regan Primetime” to its lineup.
 Jacqueline Gifford |
Meredith Corporation has promoted Jacqueline Gifford to editor-in-chief of Travel + Leisure, effective immediately. Gifford, who succeeds Nathan Lump, has been with Travel + Leisure since 2013, most recently serving as travel director. She was previously, travel editor at Brides as well as features and travel editor at OK! She reports to Meredith VP, group editorial director Stephen Orr. Meredith picked up Travel + Leisure when it acquired Time Inc. and has decided to keep the title as one of its lifestyle, celebrity and entertainment brands. Meredith says that Travel + Leisure’s global audience is more than 16 million.
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New York Media, the company that owns New York magazine, says that it plans to institute a paywall for its websites, which include NYMag.com; Vulture, which focuses on pop culture; fashion-news site The Cut; and the politically focused Intelligencer. The charge for access to the company’s sites will be $5 per month or $50 for annual subscriptions. For another $20, subscribers will also receive the print magazine, which publishes every other week. The charge will not apply to The City, an upcoming vertical that is to provide local coverage of New York City. The new policy is to go into effect the last week of November, according to the company.
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Tribune Media rode a boom in political advertising to an unexpectedly strong third-quarter profit. Political ad revenues for the company were up 90 percent from the last midterms in 2014, and up 36 percent from the presidential cycle in 2016. Tribune Media CEO Peter Kern says that the end of the midterm election cycle does not mean an end to money from political ads. He predicts that net political ad revenue in the fourth quarter will hit $99 million, up 80 percent over 2014 and 29 percent over 2016. “We may be seeing the start of an always-on political cycle,” he said. Tribune withdrew from a $3.9 billion deal for a takeover by Sinclair Broadcast Group in August.
Symbolic.ai forms a partnership with News Corp to begin using the company’s AI-native publisher platform in the newsrooms of News Corp publications to augment research, writing and publishing... Mediaite launches a newsletter that promises to give readers a summary of—media newsletters... The Fund for American Studies launches the Journalism Excellence Fellowship, a program that will provide promising young journalists the opportunity to work alongside top writers, reporters, and media professionals.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which has roots going back to 1786, is going out of business, the paper’s owners, Block Communications, announced on Jan. 7... GQ editor Will Welch is stepping down to take on a new Paris-based role with the musician Pharrell, who is also men’s creative director at Louis Vuitton... Semafor says it has raised $30 million on a $330 million valuation, following its first profitable year. 
The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reach an agreement that will make a set of more than 200 animated, masked and creature characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars available for use by Sora, OpenAI’s short-form generative AI video platform... CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has moved Tony Dokoupil, a co-host at “CBS Mornings” since 2019, into the anchor’s chair for the “CBS Evening News,” following the departure of John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois... USA Today editor-in-chief Caren Bohan has left the paper.
Michael Kaminer, who was responsible for the Observer’s “Power List” for the past 13 years, has cut ties with the publication... The New York Times Company continues the march toward its goal of 15 million subscribers by the end of 2027... The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is providing more than $6 million in funding to eight organizations working to address the challenges local news and information environments face along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Conservative outlets Fox News, Newsmax and the Daily Caller are holding back from signing Pete Hegseth’s edict restricting press access in the Pentagon... CBS News sees the first executive departure of the Bari Weiss era as head of standards and practices Claudia Milne exits... Indiana University shuts down the print version of The Indiana Daily Student.
