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Report: Is Lauren Zalaznick Leaving NBC-Universal To Save MTV?

Nikki Finke is reporting that Lauren Zalaznick, the President of NBC Universal’s Women and Lifestyle Entertainment Networks, is in “advanced talks” to take over as MTV President of Entertainment, a job recently vacated by departing Brian Graden. If true, why would she leave the string of successes at Bravo to go to the flailing catastrophe that is now MTV Networks? Perhaps because, right now, Bravo couldn’t get be any hotter, and MTV is nearly at rock bottom. A perfect opportunity to add to Zalaznick’s nearly legendary track record.

Economist Envy: The Newsweekly Every Editor Wants to Imitate (and can’t)

In October, 1991, James Fallows wrote a hilarious takedown of the Economist that ran in the Washington Post’s Outlook Section. The essay attempted to explain why perfectly intelligent people, like Harvard’s Robert Reich (who at the time was in the middle of a squabble with Newsweek’s Robert Samuelson), would say things like: “I, for one, [...]

Us Weekly Belt Got Too Tight for Min, WWD Reports

Turns out that money was the deciding factor behind Janice Min’s exit from Us Weekly, or so reports Women’s Wear Daily. Given that Min probably wouldn’t be able to pull down as much money at her next job (career?), everyone is still wondering where does she go after this?

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