David Lieberman will report to the infamously driven Nikki Finke at the entertainment industry website she founded, now called Deadline.com.
He starts April 11 after 17 years at USA Today, most recently as the paper's senior media reporter, Deadline announced today.
Finke, who was profiled in this jaw-dropping October 2009 New Yorker article, says Lieberman will report on all of the following:
"Big Media business and finance (mergers & acquisitions, earnings, Wall Street matters, governance issues), digital convergence (New Media giants Google, Yahoo, AOL; social networking like Facebook; consumer electronics like Apple TV, TiVo, Roku, and PlayStation; mobility platforms like iPad, smartphones, and automobile-based infotainment), distribution (pay TV for cable, satellite, telco TV; broadcasting via TV and radio stations, Sirius XM; broadband including wired and wireless providers, content services like Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, CinemaNow; and retail like Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Blockbuster, Redbox), movie exhibition (theater chains like AMC, Regal, Cinemark, and IMAX), regulation (Congress, courts, FCC and other agencies), advertising, marketing, and licensing."
Yikes.
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Finke, who was profiled in this jaw-dropping October 2009 New Yorker article, says Lieberman will report on all of the following:
"Big Media business and finance (mergers & acquisitions, earnings, Wall Street matters, governance issues), digital convergence (New Media giants Google, Yahoo, AOL; social networking like Facebook; consumer electronics like Apple TV, TiVo, Roku, and PlayStation; mobility platforms like iPad, smartphones, and automobile-based infotainment), distribution (pay TV for cable, satellite, telco TV; broadcasting via TV and radio stations, Sirius XM; broadband including wired and wireless providers, content services like Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, CinemaNow; and retail like Amazon, Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Blockbuster, Redbox), movie exhibition (theater chains like AMC, Regal, Cinemark, and IMAX), regulation (Congress, courts, FCC and other agencies), advertising, marketing, and licensing."
Yikes.
Just look at the talent that has walked out of the doors of this place. No wonder we are struggling financially.
ReplyDeleteNikki Finke is the real deal. The guy was here for 17 years. He's moving on to something else.Not that big a story.
ReplyDeleteAnd on his second day...
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ReplyDeleteNo great loss. What had this guy done for the paper?
ReplyDeleteJim, many of us who work with him feel the same way. He was no team player. If that offends you, you ought to remove 80% of the posts on this blog.
ReplyDeleteWell, the good news is that the person who replaces him hopefully will be much better and make improvements, providing he is replaced. If he isn't replaced, his work will be split up among others and once again there will be an additional savings to the bottom line. More bonus money for the top players.
ReplyDeleteIt will likely be the latter.
ReplyDelete2:51 Welcome to Finke's world, I guess. (And mine.)
ReplyDeleteOnly 11 twitter feeds made the Time magazine top feeds for News.
ReplyDeleteNikki Finke was one.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,2058946,00.html
So did USA Today lose a talented performer or a schmuck? Let us know because if it was the former it doesn't bode well for Hunke's leadership. Gannett keeps claiming it wants to retain and attract the best, not that I believe that.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone see the recent article about how the past three to four years have resulted in sinking employee morale throughout the business world and that employees whose company management hav been particularly cruel, insensitive and greedy are itching to bolt just as soon as the economy signals its strengthening. I don't know what these geniouses at USA Today and throughout Gannett think they're going to have as sellable products without the talent to produce them. You can't just put crap on a page or the web and expect to garner readers, ads, marketing opportunities and all that other wonderful shit Dubow keeps telling us is coming in the company's transformation.
Then again, if this reporter who left USA Today was a schmuck I'm glad they didn't lose one of their best. Too much of that has happened throughout this company already.
7:29pm, I don't know about this particular fellow, but I do know USA Today has lost some very good people under this leadership regime.
ReplyDeleteI left USA TODAY on my own. I had thought I would retire there but this current regime is a joke and while they probably won't last long, they'll do irreparable damage in the process. Already have.
ReplyDeleteMr. Hunke was asked about the loss of talent at a recent meeting with the newsroom. He was unconcerned.
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