Barry Diller

Bill O'Reilly Names Names: Fox News Host Visibly Displeased to Say (Shudder) 'Hendrik'

Tina Brown and Barry Diller's Daily Beast (A thousand more hours, a thousand more hours!) has a video of Fox News' Bill O'Reilly dispatching a correspondent to ambush interview The New Yorker's Hendrik Hertzberg on the streets...

Blasblog From Miami: Marc And More Rally Against The R-Word

I'm just as guilty as anyone else on this point—it's all I can think about, to be honest—but last night I joined several people in a conversational movement against talk of the R-word. It's reached a point where the recession,...

Rolling the dice on 3-D films

Against the current backdrop of diving corporate results and rampant corporate greed, there are a few things that make Jeffrey Katzenberg stand out. As chief executive of DreamWorks Animation SKG, he has been paid a salary of...

IAC sees cascade of M&A opportunities

By Yinka Adegoke NEW YORK, Dec 4 (Reuters) - IAC/InteractiveCorp (IACI.O: ) Chief Executive Barry Diller is sitting on a pile of cash but he isn't going to give in to investor demands that he buy back stock to rescue the...

More Media Layoff/Shutdown Roundup: Time Inc., Forbes, NBC Universal, IAC (at AllThingsD)

If you had any romantic notion that the beginning of holiday season meant an and to media layoff season, think again. his looks to be a particularly bad few days at Time Inc. where many of the magazines that asked workers to...

Walters' 'Fascinating' list just isn't

Bob Costas got it 10 years ago. "When you see Barbara Walters sitting at the foot of a bed with Dennis Rodman and naming him one of her 10 most fascinating people of whatever year that was, you know that Barbara Walters has...

If I Have to Buy One Search Engine in 2009 (at Motley Fool)

By Rick Aristotle Munarriz December 2, 2008 | Comments (0) It's finally here: the time of year when folks like to take a look back at the year that was or make predictions about the year ahead. Everyone knows that Google...

AdSense News: New Media Finds Success With Local Ads, Old Media Struggles - CNNMoney.com

Web companies tapping local advertising markets by offering cheaper, more accountable ways to reach consumers are thriving at a time when the longtime dominators of that market - newspapers, radio stations and television...

Laid Off Recently? Come to Tina, Darling!

On the day the perennially troubled Radar magazine folded, its editor Maer Roshan got an email from an old friend, Tina Brown, with whom he’d worked at her own sunken ship, Talk. “Maer my darling, I’m grieving so terribly,” she...

Recession, Reshmession! The Party Must Go On, Says Barry Diller, Chocolate Fountains and All!

In November, the employees at Barry Diller’s media conglomerate, IAC, were unsure whether the company would throw a holiday party. The season, after all, has not been kind to media employees used to a year-end bacchanal on the...