Juan Williams, 4 Others to Replace Glenn Beck
L’Opinion, Annenberg Help Youth Produce Bilingual Paper
130 Jobless as WNET Assumes Programming of N.J. Network
N.Y. Post Fires Reporter After Leak
Rashida Jones Moves from Weather Channel to Leading Newsroom
Juan Williams, 4 Others to Replace Glenn Beck
“Fox News Channel will launch a weekday ensemble opinion program on July 11 at 5 p.m. to replace Glenn Beck . . . through the summer,” Andrea Morabito wrote Thursday for Broadcasting and Cable.
“Titled The Five, the new show will feature a roundtable of five rotating Fox News personalities‘ who will discuss, debate and at times debunk the hot news stories, controversies and issues of the day,’ according to the FNC statement. Juan Williams, Dana Perino and Geraldo Rivera are among those who will be included in the weekly ensemble.
That’s up from his year-to-date average of 1.855 million total viewers and 438,000 in the 25-54 demographic, but down when compared to the 2010 year-to-date average of 2.416 million total viewers and 643,000 in the demographic.
Meanwhile, “Color of Change, an Internet-based civil rights organization, took aim Wednesday at the leaders of Fox and its parent company, News Corporation, calling into question the language of another host with a full page ad in the New York Daily News,” Denise Stewart wrote Thursday for blackamericaweb.com.
“The ad was an open letter addressed to News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdock and Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox News and Fox Business.
“On Friday, June 10, Eric Bolling, host of ‘Follow the Money’ on the Fox Business Network, teased a story about the White House hosting President Ali Bongo of Gabon by saying, ‘It’s not the first time he’s had a hoodlum in the hizzouse.’
“A few days later, Color of Change launched a petition calling for Ailes to fire Bolling because of those comments and because of another segment where he said, President Obama was too busy ‘chugging 40s’ in Ireland to respond quickly to the tornadoes in Missouri.”
The young staff of Boyle Heights Beat/El Pulso de Boyle Heights surrounds Los Angeles council member José Huízar, back row, fourth from left, and Michelle Levander of USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication.
L’Opinion, Annenberg Help Youth Produce Bilingual Paper
“A month ago, the disappearance of mariachi bands in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles could have gone unreported,” Caitlin Fuller reported Tuesday for New America Media. “Boyle Heights has been known for its Mariachi Plaza, where bands show off their talents in hopes that passers-by will hire them for parties and other events.
“But the bands have fallen victim to the economic downturn, reports Karissa Reynoso, youth reporter for the Boyle Heights Beat/El Pulso de Boyle Heights, the brand new local newspaper for the little-covered neighborhood.
“The bilingual quarterly publication is a collaborative venture of the Spanish-language daily, La Opinión, and the University of Southern California’s (USC) Annenberg School of Journalism and Communication. Reported and written by youth from the neighborhood, the first issue of Boyle Heights Beat, a 20-page tabloid, was released in early June.
“Pedro Rojas, executive editor of La Opinión, cofounded the new publication with USC’s Michelle Levander, founding director of Annenberg’s California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships. The endowment funds the new paper.
“La Opinión has been a resource for first-generation Spanish speakers in the United States. The daily reaches a half million readers a day, 87 percent of whom are Spanish-speaking Latinos.
“Boyle Heights Beat differs from La Opinión in that the paper is staffed by youth, is highly localized and is bilingual.”
130 Jobless as WNET Assumes Programming of N.J. Network
“Last night, New Jersey Network ended its 40-year run of providing state news and information,” Jerry Barmash reported Friday for FishbowlNY.
Due to budgetary concerns, NJN’s days were numbered. New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced last month that WNET, the parent company of Channel 13 and Channel 21/WLIW would handle all programming and services under a five-year deal. The broadcast license continues to be maintained by the state.
Christopher Baxter wrote Thursday for the Star-Ledger in Newark, “As of Friday, 130 people are out of work. They packed up their desks and grabbed as many hugs as they could before leaving out the back door.”
N.Y. Post Fires Reporter After Leak
“Readers weren’t the only ones hurt by the New York Post’s newsstand price hike this week,” Janon Fisher wrote Thursday for Adweek.
“After Adweek broke the news that the tabloid would cost an extra quarter on Monday, editor-in-chief Col Allan went on a rampage to root out our newsroom sources.
“He fired one of the city’s top police reporters after the story came out. The reporter declined to comment for this article.”
Rashida Jones Moves from Weather Channel to Leading Newsroom
“Rashida Jones, who has served as director of live programming at The Weather Channel since 2009 (and is not the actress daughter of bknown for roles on ‘The Office’ and ‘Parks and Recreation’), has been tapped to lead the newsroom at WIS, a Raycom-owned NBC-affiliate in Columbia, SC,” Andrew Gauthier reported Wednesday for TVSpy.
“WIS general manager Donita Todd confirmed the move to TVSpy today, saying that Jones’s first day as WIS’s news content director will be August 1st.”
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