Lucas Shaw
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Focus Features Makes Jeb Brody Production Chief
Brody comes over from Vendome Pictures, where he supervised production on this year’s “Source Code” and “Larry Crowne”
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Journalists Freed From Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel
After being holed up for five days, scores of foreign journalists were permitted to leave the Tripoli hotel
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Report Links Social Networking Sites to Teenage Drinking, Drug Use
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University finds that teens using social media sites are more likely to smoke cigarettes, drink and smoke marijuana
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New MSNBC Host Al Sharpton: ‘The Battleground Is Not Just the Streets But the Studio’
“I’m the only one on this station that has run for President and knows what it is to go through a primary and presidential debate”
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MSNBC Ends Speculation, Hires Al Sharpton as Primetime Host
The civil rights activist and minister will officially take over the 6 p.m. slot, which he has been hosting for much of the summer
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Miramax Names Beth Minehart Global Digital SVP
Minehart will be responsible for all digital initiatives and sales and report directly to CEO Mike Lang
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AEG Enters Competition with Live Nation Ticketmaster
Anschutz Entertain Group partners with start-up Outbox to attack the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monpoly
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CNN’s Anderson Cooper Strong in Demo, Still Low in Total Viewers
Cooper is still low in total viewers, but his performance in the demo is cause for encouragement
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‘Marketplace’ Exec Producer Deb Clark: Economic Turmoil Brings Great Opportunities
“‘Marketplace’” has a good formula because we are able to break things down in an understandable way, but we need some new energy doing that”
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Andy Coulson on News Corp. Payroll While Working for David Cameron (Report)
Coulson, the former editor of News of the World, was still receiving severance payments while he was working for the U.K. Conservative Party, according to the BBC
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Analyst Downgrades News Corp. Over Phone-Hacking Concerns
The rising cost of litgation, and vulnerability to rivals in wake of the distraction, prompted the downgrade
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Twitter Nets Highest Traffic Ever in July — Catches Up to MySpace
The social media site reported 32.8 million unique visitors, up 2 million over June
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American Public Media Names Deborah Clark Executive Producer of ‘Marketplace’
The business news franchise attracts more than 9 million listeners a week
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Miramax, Facebook Team for Streaming App
Having already made a pact with Hulu earlier this summer, Miramax will push Facebook’s biggest streaming initiative to date
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Magazines Flex Their Apps — But Will They Make Any Money From Them?
Magazine publishers are betting heavily on the tablet platform, aggressively enticing readers to embrace their digital versions; big revenue, however, isn’t on the page right now