| | | | | Exec summary: Apple is unveiling new iPhones on Tuesday... Hillary Clinton's book is out... NBC is hiring a media reporter... Kimberly Dozier is starting a new gig... Stephen Colbert is on the cover of Variety... Nielsen data is still offline due to Irma... | | Sean Hannity moving to 9pm, Laura Ingraham taking over at 10 | | Scoop: Fox News is about to make another prime time change. Laura Ingraham is expected to take over the 10pm hour, multiple sources told me and Hadas Gold on Monday.
While there may be one or two final details to negotiate, Ingraham has been telling friends that the deal is essentially done, the sources said. Sean Hannity's show, currently at 10, will move to 9, so he's head-to-head with Rachel Maddow. And "The Five" will move back to 5pm now that Eric Bolling's show has been cancelled.
Here's our full story. Bottom line: The launch date for Ingraham's new show is unknown. But the sources said the new schedule is confirmed and known among senior staffers... | | | You'll see a refreshed graphics package on Fox News on Tuesday... plus an updated logo... the goal is to eliminate "the clutter..." | | No apology for this bizarre "Fox & Friends" comment | | Tom Kludt emails: If liberals are calling for the removal of statues immortalizing Confederate generals who committed treason in the name of slavery, Brian Kilmeade wondered, then who's to say they won't eventually try to topple a 9/11 memorial? Or, as Kilmeade put it Monday morning in his interview with Ryan Zinke: "Do you worry that 100 years from now someone is going to take that memorial down like they are trying remake our memorials today?" A couple things to unpack here:
-- One: It's positively bizarre to conflate the memory of Confederate generals -- who seceded from the country and helped perpetrate our bloodiest war -- with the victims of America's worst terrorist attack...
-- Two: This is Fox's bread-and-butter. Slippery slope arguments have been a Fox hallmark for years...
-- Three: Former Hillary Clinton spox Jesse Ferguson was far from the only one perturbed over Kilmeade's question: "F&F needs to apologize to families of Flight 93 for comparing their bravery to confederate generals who fought against our nation." A Fox spokesperson declined to comment... | | | Tomi Lahren's "Final Thoughts" frequently went viral when she taped them for TheBlaze. Now that she's at Fox, the "Final Thoughts" are back. Her first video is about NFL players protesting during the national anthem... | | Kimberly Dozier's new exec editor role | | Former AP, CBS and The Daily Beast correspondent Kimberly Dozier is becoming the executive editor of The Cipher Brief. She'll be building out a reporting team and working with the site's columnists and analysts.
The two-year-old site covers security issues around the world. It bills itself as a "conversation platform that connects the private sector with the world's leading security experts." Former CNN'er Suzanne Kelly is the CEO and publisher.
Given the conflicts of interest that oftentimes crop up in this space, Dozier will be working with her team to craft an ethics/values guidebook for The Cipher Brief. "You'll see the team is clearly labeling what's news coverage versus op-eds and analysis, including the TCB's analytical experts' output -- the former CIA officers etc. who write for the site," she told me via email. "That's how we're building trust with our readers, at a time when reporting and editorial often ARE seen as overlapping or merging, leaving readers wondering where they can find unbiased national security news." Dozier will continue to be a CNN global affairs analyst... | | Robbie Myers leaving Elle | | "After 17 years at the helm of one of the smartest magazines in fashion... editor-in-chief Robbie Myers is leaving Elle," The Cut reports. "Under Myers, Elle was known as the only true mainstream competition to Vogue for its crisp journalism and cutting-edge fashion photography... It's unclear who will follow her, but they have big shoes to fill." Here's the internal memo...
-- WWD's Alexandra Steigrad: "Could Harper's Bazaar EIC Glenda Bailey be next?" | | Joe Pompeo to Vanity Fair. Hadas Gold to CNN. Michael Calderone to Politico. Brian Flood to FoxNews.com. (Flood's first day was Monday!) And now there's another media reporter move: Claire Atkinson, the NYPost's formidable media biz reporter, is joining NBC News. Details TBA...
-- Another media reporter change coming soon: Ben Mullin's last day at Poynter was Friday... No word on his next stop yet... | | | We're expecting new iPhones, some updates to Apple TV, etc. Will there be any surprises? Apple's fall product launch event will take place in the Steve Jobs Theater at the company's new HQ building. 1pm ET, 10am PT. CNN's Heather Kelly, Sam Grobart, Samuel Burke, and a whole team will be there... Here's the curtain-raiser... | | Political journalists "can't bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump, from providing him free airtime to giving my emails three times more coverage than all the issues affecting people's lives combined."
--Hillary Clinton in "What Happened," out on Tuesday... | | Inquiry into Sputnik is part of an FBI counterintel investigation | | Here's Hunter Walker and Michael Isikoff's scoop for Yahoo News: "The FBI recently questioned a former White House correspondent for Sputnik, the Russian-government-funded news agency."
The former correspondent, Andrew Feinberg, confirmed to CNN that he spoke to FBI agents from the DC field office two weeks ago and provided them with emails from his time at Sputnik. A law enforcement source tells us that the inquiry was a part of a FBI counterintelligence investigation separate from Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation...
-- ICYMI: Feinberg joined me on "Reliable Sources" in June, shortly after leaving Sputnik, and described his experience... | | The Cincinnati Enquirer should win awards for this | | "Seven Days of Heroin." That's the headline on this special report by the Cincinnati Enquirer. Subhed: "This is what an epidemic looks like." The paper assigned 60+ reporters, photogs, videographers "to chronicle an ordinary week in this extraordinary time."
The Enquirer published it as a 20-page special section on Sunday, and it picked up attention online on Monday. The paper's editor, Peter Bhatia, told me Monday night: "We've been astounded and gratified by the outpouring of reaction to the heroin work. It is a record day for our web site with more than 5,000 people viewing it at once and spending extraordinary amounts of time on the story and video."
-- BTW, as announced last month, Bhatia is about to move to Detroit... he's taking over the Detroit Free Press... | | | All day long The Drudge Report promoted a Gateway Pundit "story" titled "Photographer Explains How CBS Uses Color Adjustments To Make Steve Bannon 'Look Bad' On 60 Minutes." A spokesman for "60" had a simple statement: "It's nonsense." | | -- Katy Tur's book about the Trump campaign, "Unbelievable," comes out on Tuesday. Her promo tour will start with a hit on "Morning Joe..."
-- Internal memo: former WashPost national editor Scott Wilson will be "leading our coverage of the West and especially California..."
-- Joe Adalian just published a long, wonderful interview with MSNBC's Joy Reid...
-- Daniel Funke with the results of a new fact-check study: "On Twitter, you're better off fact-checking your crazy uncle than a complete stranger..." | | Stephen Colbert's prep for this Sunday's Emmy Awards hosting gig included a Variety cover shoot and an interview with Brian Steinberg. Of course politics will be a part of his monologue, "because politics was the biggest TV story this year," Colbert said: "The biggest story of the year is not 'Westworld.' It's not 'The Handmaid's Tale.' It's not Milo Ventimiglia's luscious abs. That's not what we cared about. The biggest TV star of the year is Donald Trump." Steinberg's full feature will be up on Variety.com on Tuesday morning...
-- More Colbert: THR published this feature about his "comeback year" on Monday... | | "Monday Night Football" is back | | | I'm watching right now. It's a milestone evening... as Beth Mowins becomes the "first woman in 30 years take the microphone in an NFL game, and the first for a national broadcast." CNNMoney's Ahiza Garcia interviewed Mowins... check it out here! | | No NFL ratings yet, though... | | | Due to Hurricane Irma, Nielsen's Tampa Bay facility is not back up and running yet... so there's still a significant delay in receiving TV ratings... there's no word yet on when Sunday or Monday's #'s will be available... | | -- The extraordinary live shots continued on Monday: This was CNN's Sara Sidner early early in the morning in Daytona Beach...
-- And this was NBC's Kerry Sanders in Marco Island, helping to save dolphins stuck on the shore...
-- Andy Lack's internal memo to NBCers: "Thank you for your extraordinary hard work, endless dedication and, in many cases, genuine courage, over the past several days..."
-- Mike Bettes wrote a Facebook message to people who thought he was taking unnecessary risks during Sunday's live coverage... Here it is...
-- Jack Shafer weighs in on the coverage: "Why You Can't Take Your Eyes Off the Hurricane"
-- Paul Farhi tweets: "Best post-hurricane TV reporter stand-up position? 1. In front of huge fallen tree; 2. Ankle deep in flood water; or 3. Beside beached boat?" | | Poynter: "After a long and scary few days, we're OK here" | | | That's what the Poynter Institute tweeted on Monday. "So far, we escaped without any serious damage," Kelly McBridge wrote. "Staff are checking in safe. A Monday morning walk-through revealed no major damage, no flooding and -- miraculously -- the building's power still on..." | | "Communications are completely out across the Keys" | | | Flights over the Florida Keys provided a bird's eye view of the damage on Monday, but there's still a lot TBD. From the National Weather Service in Key West on Monday night: "Communications are completely out across the Keys, and the Keys are currently cut-off from the main Florida peninsula... It is still unknown at this time when infrastructure will be back up to allow for telecommunications and internet access..." | | How Oliver almost became a Miami Herald reporter | | | Oliver Darcy emails: I woke up to blue skies on my third day at the Miami Herald. (I've been sleeping in the newsroom with their team as Irma battered Florida.) The hurricane had finally passed and the birds were chirping. But getting back to my hotel proved tricky. I didn't have a car. Uber, Lyft, and taxis were all non-operational. And the distance from the newsroom to my hotel was about 12 miles. Stranded, someone in the newsroom joked they'd be assigning me stories soon. But before that became a reality, I was able to hitch a ride with a Herald reporter headed downtown in he afternoon and make it back to my hotel safely... I'll be in Miami on Tuesday (shoot me an email if you're here and want to meet up) and, if all goes as planned, I'll be back in NYC on Wednesday... | | By Julia Waldow:
-- "Transparent" creator Jill Soloway is stepping down as the showrunner for season five to focus on other projects, including "I Love Dick..." She'll be replaced by Jill Gordon of "My So-Called Life" and "90210..." (THR)
-- Lisa Respers France's latest: "#ExpressiveAsians hashtag used to fire back at Hollywood whitewashing" (CNN)
--NPR has created a Google Docs draft to help print journalists make the transition to audio storytelling... (Google Docs)
-- Kathleen McLaughlin, writing for The Guardian, says "we need people to stop expecting the news be the same as air and sunlight -- absolutely free..." (The Guardian) | | Not a Pulitzer-winning editor... | | | Leezel Tanglao emails: No, this editor did not win a Pulitzer -- and he wants to make sure everyone knows it. This is what happens when the wrong credit gets repeated over and over. And this goes back why it's important to get things right the first time... | | Frank attends an all clown screening of "It" | | Frank Pallotta emails: Okay, before you roll your eyes, an all clown screening of "It" actually says a lot about how to fix the movie business right now. How's that? Well, coming off its worst summer in 20 years, Hollywood is in the midst of trying to figure out how to bring audiences back to theaters. "It" -- along with its all-clown screening -- makes moviegoing feel like an event that you have to attend in person.
Each clown (ahem, ticket holder) I spoke with said that watching horror movies with an audience was better in theaters than at home. This may explain why "It" made a record $123 million in its opening weekend and why other low-budget horror films like "Get Out" and "Split" have made a killing this year. Seeing them in theaters is an experience you can't get at home.
So laugh all you want at a bunch of clowns seeing "It," but it/"It" may present a good lesson for Hollywood: Make movies feel like an event and audiences will come… even if they're dressed as clowns... | | Confirmed: Patty Jenkins will direct the "Wonder Woman" sequel | | | Whew. Sandra Gonzalez reports: Warner Bros. Pictures has roped in director Patty Jenkins to helm the sequel to "Wonder Woman," a source close to production confirms to CNN. The news was first reported by Variety. Mark your calendars: The "Wonder Woman" sequel is set to hit theaters December 13, 2019...Read Sandra's story here. | | Rotten Tomatoes reality check | | | Brian Lowry emails: A new USC study analyzed Rotten Tomatoes data going back to 2000 and came to the not-particularly-surprising conclusion that the movie-review-aggregating website plays at best a marginal role in impacting box-office performance. The analysis runs counter to some recent reporting, including a New York Times piece and an earlier Hollywood Reporter article -- which seemed questionable on its face -- that suggested 'the power of the Tomatometer has reached a tipping point,' linking tepid summer results to a spate of negative reviews... | | | -- Researcher Yves Bergquist's conclusion: "The math is pretty overwhelming in saying there was no (positive or negative) correlation in 2017 between Rotten Tomatoes Scores and box office returns." You can read it for yourself here... | | | Brian Lowry emails: As we reported on Sunday night, former NBC chief Don Ohlmeyer died over the weekend. Former NBC and Fox scheduling guru Preston Beckman posted this remembrance of his former boss... He recounts Ohlmeyer asking at the end of scheduling meetings, "So, who should I fire if this schedule doesn't work?" One footnote about Ohlmeyer: Unlike a lot of network executives, who look to cash in after they leave those jobs, Ohlmeyer was already wealthy when he started at NBC, having sold his company to ESPN. That brought a certain fearlessness to the way he operated. Beckman's full tribute is here... | | | Email reliablesources@cnn.com... we appreciate every message. The feedback helps us craft the next day's newsletter! | | | Get Reliable Sources, a comprehensive summary of the most important media news, delivered to your inbox every afternoon. | | | | | |
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