BySharon Waxman
What does the future of media look like? A panel of warriors battling on the front-lines of the shrinking territory of Quality Media talked about what is happening today at Digital Hollywood.
It isn’t pretty, especially this week. The L.A. Times has quietly laid off veterans Tina Daunt,Susan Spanoand Diane Haithman, with a dozen others to follow. The New York Times announced its plans to lay off 100 people before the end of the year. (Read Mikulan on the L.A. T...
What does the future of media look like? A panel of warriors battling on the front-lines of the shrinking territory of Quality Media talked about what is happening today at Digital Hollywood.
It isn’t pretty, especially this week. The L.A. Times has quietly laid off veterans Tina Daunt,Susan Spanoand Diane Haithman, with a dozen others to follow. The New York Times announced its plans to lay off 100 people before the end of the year. (Read Mikulan on the L.A. T...
- 10/22/2009
- by Sharon Waxman
- The Wrap
By Steven Mikulan
The rumors and omens had been around for at least a week. According to scuttlebutt, 40 Los Angeles Times staffers were about to be canned -- and, for auguries, ambulances had been spotted parked outside the newspaper’s Spring Street building on a couple of recent occasions. In the parlance of media metaphors, the ax dropped, or the shoe fell, or the bricks were hit, on Tuesday. Five veteran writers are leaving the paper: Tina Daunt, Diane Haithman, Peter Hong,Susan Spanoand Barbara Thornburg. The separations came mostly as layoffs, although real-estate reporter Hon...
The rumors and omens had been around for at least a week. According to scuttlebutt, 40 Los Angeles Times staffers were about to be canned -- and, for auguries, ambulances had been spotted parked outside the newspaper’s Spring Street building on a couple of recent occasions. In the parlance of media metaphors, the ax dropped, or the shoe fell, or the bricks were hit, on Tuesday. Five veteran writers are leaving the paper: Tina Daunt, Diane Haithman, Peter Hong,Susan Spanoand Barbara Thornburg. The separations came mostly as layoffs, although real-estate reporter Hon...
- 10/21/2009
- by Steven Mikulan
- The Wrap
Marvel and DC are both in the middle of a new movie strategy where they release animated films of some of their most popular characters direct to DVD. The two rivals have arguably been doing it for ages if you count the spin-off “movies” from their animated television series, but the last 4 years have seen a leap in activity. Have any of them toppedBatman: Mask of the Phantasm?No, not really. However, each of the studios seems to be making huge strides with each successive movie. Marvel, having reached its 6 film marker (DC isn’t far behind at this point), have released them all in a box set. While it’s nice to have an anthology to put on the shelf instead of individual DVD cases, it ends up serving as a reminder of how far the films have come since the originalUltimate Avengers: The Movieback in...
- 10/17/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
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