 Laura Ingraham |
Laura Ingraham will be getting a permanent slot on the Fox News Channel prime-time schedule as the channel shuffles its schedule to counter the rise of Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. “The Ingraham Angle” will make its debut on Oct. 30 in the slot currently held by Sean Hannity. Hannity will move to 9 p.m. next week, running opposite “The Rachel Maddow Show.” Roundtable discussion program “The Five” will move from 9 p.m. to 5 p.m. Nielsen Media Research ratings for August put Maddow at the top of the prime-time news cable heap, with 2.783 million total viewers. Hannity was close behind, with 2.679 million total viewers. Ingraham, who at one point was considered a top candidate for the position of White House Press Secretary, joined Fox in 2007, working as both an analyst and fill-in host for the channel. She is also host of talk radio program “The Laura Ingraham Show.”
 Matthew Smith |
Gay social network Hornet has brought on Matthew Smith as senior vice president of global sales. Smith will drive the overall advertising revenue strategy and execution for the network. He comes to Hornet from Hearst’s Dr. Oz The Good Life, where he was advertising director. He has also held sales and executive leadership positions at Out, Wired and Fast Company. “As Hornet brings native content and broader, integrated brand opportunities to its clients, Matthew’s creativity, forward-thinking and digital solution approach will move our platform to the forefront of LGBTQ social networking,” said Hornet president Sean Howell.
 Thomas Frank |
Investigative journalist Thomas Frank, who was forced to resign his position at CNN following a retracted story about former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, has landed at internet news and entertainment site BuzzFeed. Starting October 2, Frank will be the site’s first full-time reporter on the national security and counterintelligence beat—a job that he found through a link on Facebook, according to Vanity Fair. His 16 years of Washington experience include more than a decade at USA Today, where he was a 2012 Pulitzer finalist. At BuzzFeed, he will be able to pick up where he left off before leaving CNN, looking into the various investigations swirling around the potential role of Trump staffers in facilitating Russia’s purported interference in the 2016 presidential election. BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith told Vanity Fair that he had no trepidation about hiring Frank. “I haven’t seen or heard from any serious journalist who thinks the reporters” in the CNN situation “are the ones who ended up with the black eye.”
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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.
Rothschild family plans to unload 26.7 percent stake in The Economist... STAT, a digital media company that focuses the life sciences, brings back Damian Garde, who anchored its biotech newsletter and podcast from 2016 to 2024... High Times officially resumes print publication (following its 2024 shutdown) with the release of a limited-edition, collectible 50th anniversary issue. 
