 Janice Min |
Janice Min, former US and Hollywood Reporter editor-in-chief, plans to join forces with ex-CBS Entertainment head Nina Tassler on a new TV and digital-media production company, according to the New York Post. The LA-based startup will focus on projects led by females, including writers, directors and producers, and likely financial backers include Creative Artists Agency and its investment arm, Evolution Media Capital, the Post said. Min, who was allegedly on the short list to replace Graydon Carter as EIC of Vanity Fair, is currently a strategic advisor at Eldridge Industries, which controls The Hollywood Reporter as well as its sister publication Billboard.
 Patrick J. Purcell |
The Boston Herald is being acquired by GateHouse Media. The acquisition comes after Boston Herald, Inc., filed a voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition in the District of Delaware Dec. 8. According to an article in the paper’s Saturday edition, BHI says that the sale will allow the operation to continue, providing a level of stability for employees, customers and vendors. As of September 2017, GateHouse publishes 130 daily newspapers, more than 640 community publications and over 540 local market websites, reaching more than 21 million consumers weekly. each week. Earlier this year, it acquired Dix Communications in Ohio and Calkins Media in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. “All I ever wanted to do was keep the Boston Herald alive,” publisher Patrick J. Purcell said in a letter to employees. “And it is with this pending sale that I am able to do that in these difficult newspapering times.”
 Emily Gitter |
The Wall Street Journal has named Emily Gitter editor of weekend business and finance. Gitter, who has been with the paper since 2005, will be tasked with leading efforts to create a new weekend business and finance section, as well as coordinating the WSJ’s weekend coverage of business and finance across both print and digital platforms. She has served as editor of the Journal’s Mansion section, which focuses on luxury real estate, since 2012 and before that was deputy editor of Weekend Journal. Before coming to the Journal, Gitter held editorial positions at New York Magazine and the New York Sun.
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. 
CBS News is set to hand over its reins to The Free Press co-founder Bari Weiss as Paramount acquires her site for $155M... C-SPAN comes on board as an official media partner of the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which is charged by Congress to lead the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence... A new Gallup survey says that the level of trust that US audiences have in the media has hit a new low.
Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison has named Kenneth Weinstein, former head of the conservative Hudson Institute, as ombudsman for CBS News.
