Life After Oprah
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Kim Masters reports on how Oprah's exit affects television-and what she's got planned-and Lorraine Ali, who appeared as a guest, on the loss of America's mother confessor.
Oprah Changes Channels
Kim Masters covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast. She is also the host of The Business, public radio's weekly program about the business of show business. She is also the author of The Keys to the Kingdom: The Rise of Michael Eisner and the Fall of Everybody Else.
Despite slipping ratings and her failings, she was a class act in the daytime wasteland. Kim Masters on how the mogul's exit will affect the broadcast landscape-and what she's got planned.
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Penelope Cruz showed her dark side, Will Smith and Jay-Z came to Broadway, and Taylor Swift became a greeting card. VIEW OUR GALLERY for the best in music, film, TV, and art.
Crunch Time for Time Warner
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
His publishing unit is trouble. The spinoff of AOL is at hand. CEO Jeffrey Bewkes talks exclusively with The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove about the future of the media business.
V Makes First Contact
ABC's V remake has the geek world abuzz, but is that enough to keep it from joining its network sci-fi predecessors in the cancellation graveyard?
The Week in Culture
Rachel Syme is culture editor of The Daily Beast.
This week, Natalie Portman went on an anti-meat campaign, British theater companies went digital, and a Glee single went gold. View our gallery of the week in art, music, TV, and film.
Kenny Ortega's This Is It, a filmed version of Michael Jackson's would-be new tour from rehearsal footage, opened on Tuesday at midnight and made $...
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Jolie hunt is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. Prior to that she served as global director of corporate and business affairs for IBM Corporation She was the director of PR for the Financial Times. She lives between New York and London.
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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