 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.
USA TODAY brings on Jamie Stockwell as VP of news, effective March 30. Stockwell was most recently deputy managing editor of news for the Washington Post... YouTube expands its likeness detection capabilities to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates... The AP Fund for Journalism adds 50 news organizations to its local news program, bringing the total number of participating newsrooms to 100. 
Versant Media Group, the NBCUniversal cable TV spin-off, today reported its first financial results as 2025 revenues dipped 5.3 percent to $6.7B and standalone EBITDA dropped 9.1 percent to $2.2B.
Trump Media & Technology Group is discussing a spin-off of the Truth Social platform following the expected closing of its $6B merger deal with TAE Technologies... Condé Nast sells off Them, the digital LGBTQ-focused platform it launched in 2017, to Equalpride, publisher of Out, The Advocate, Out Traveler, Health PLUS Wellness and Pride.com... CBS News has parted ways with longevity influencer Peter Attia, one of the 19 contributors that editor-in-chief Bari Weiss brought on as part of her plan to present a wider variety of voices on the platform. 
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. 
