The release in Beijing of the last 250,000 Olympics tickets available to the public started a stampede after people waiting in line all night rushed ticket windows around the city, the Associated Press reports. Police restricted the public from many…
Thomson Reuters, which merged last year, will start a business news channel for the Internet and cable as soon as January to compete with CNBC and Bloomberg News, U.K.-based Daily Telegraph reports. In May, the company, while cutting 140 jobs,…
Cable giant Comcast, which has a legion of subscribers sharing stories about customer service nightmares online, is among a growing list of companies reaching out to disgruntled consumers through message boards, blogs and social networks, the New York Times reports….
Screen Actors Guild leaders will meet with the union’s national board on Saturday for the first time since the union’s contract with the studios expired, the Hollywood Reporter says. During the regularly scheduled meeting, one insider says “fireworks” can be…
Marvel Comics is creating a 25-episode animated video version of a previously unpublished Stephen King story to promote a new book of short stories by the horror writer, the Wall Street Journal reports. Episodes will be releases daily on line…
Oscar-nominated actor Harvey Keitel will join the cast of ABC’s upcoming series, “Life on Mars,” TelevisionWeek reports. Keitel will portray homicide department chief Detective Gene Hunt in the series. He will begin shooting with the cast on August 5, the…
While reporting earnings, two French-based media giants—Havas SA and Publicis Groupe SA–said the economy is affecting ad spending by marketers in the automotive and financial categories, the Wall Street Journal reports. Both firms have major media buying operations in the…
As media company slash jobs, diversity in newsrooms is likely to suffer, said Karen Lincoln Michel, president of Unity, a group comprised of associations of Black, Hispanic, Asian and Native American journalists, USA Today reports.In 2007, the percentage of minority…
FX is developing a cop action drama set in the Wild West with McG and writers Laurence Malkin and Chad Thumann, Daily Variety reports. Additional details about the project, called “Crossroads,” remain under wraps, the trade says. —Sergio Ibarra
Former star player John McEnroe has been hired to rescue a campaign to promote the U.S. Open Series of tournaments for the U.S. Tennis Association, the Wall Street Journal says. The tennis group is redoing the ad campaign it had…