Howard Kurtz, media critic, takes own medicine
As one of the country’s most recognizable media-critic personalities, Howard Kurtz regularly covers errors by journalists who speed through their work. Yesterday he committed precisely such an error,...
View ArticleHoward Kurtz is gone from Daily Beast [Updated]
Updated 4:15 p.m. The Daily Beast is parting ways with Washington fixture Howard Kurtz, the news site’s Washington bureau chief, both sides announced Thursday. Daily Beast boss Tina Brown said in a...
View ArticleBehind the Howard Kurtz-Lauren Ashburn connection at CNN
CNN aired an entertaining reversal this past Sunday morning. Where Howard Kurtz, host of “Reliable Sources,” generally grills his guests on the media topics of the day, this time his guests were doing...
View ArticleNPR runs Tina Brown correction
Earlier this year, Daily Beast publishing eminence Tina Brown parted ways with Washington bureau chief Howard Kurtz after he wrote an inaccurate story about the coming-out of gay NBA basketball player...
View ArticleReport: Tina Brown will leave Daily Beast
Via BuzzFeed staffer Peter Lauria comes a report that Daily Beast editor Tina Brown will be leaving her post come January, when her contract expires. “According to a source with direct knowledge of the...
View ArticleWatch out for Tina Brown’s ‘flash debates’
Consistent with previous reports, Daily Beast editor Tina Brown will be leaving her post in the coming months and will launch her own gig under the banner of something called Tina Brown Live Media, a...
View ArticleNew York Times stands by Benghazi story
The New York Times isn’t budging in the face of fresh challenges to its landmark December 2013 investigation of the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi attacks. “We continue to stand by our story,” writes New...
View ArticleMcConnell correction goes viral (updated)
When the New York Times issues a correction, the New York Times issues a correction. The text attached to this Tuesday story by New York Times reporter Jonathan Weisman is unequivocal. A mistake had...
View ArticleHow the media call Kim Jong Un fat
Reporting on North Korea is a hassle. Closed society, totalitarianism, no FOIA laws — those kinds of obstacles. So news outlets around the world have had trouble making sense of the five-week absence...
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