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Posted May 18th 2007 7:32PM by Meredith O'Brien
Filed under: News
Two ABC News journalists were ambushed and killed in Iraq as they were headed home from the ABC News Baghdad bureau yesterday, ABC announced.
Thirty-three-year-old cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, and 26-year-old soundman Saif Laith Yousuf were in their car when they were "reportedly ambushed and they were killed by unknown assailants" after being "stopped by two cars full of gunmen," ABC's web site reported. The network's Baghdad correspondent, Terry McCarthy said, "Today we've lost two family members, and it really hurts."
One hundred and four journalists have been killed while covering the Iraq War, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Notably, one of ABC's anchors, Bob Woodruff, sustained serious injuries while covering Iraq in January 2006.
Posted Jan 11th 2007 6:31PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Web, MTV
Cops hate cop shows. Doctors hate doctor shows. Comedy writers hate
Studio 60, and the media is loving to hate
I'm from Rolling Stone. Everyone from
Idolator to
Salon is lining up to spank
Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner and his ridiculous charges, but that's just because they're jealous. When they started out as interns back in the day, they didn't get to rock the red carpet events and see their bylines the next day. They chose the path of hard work to achieve their journalistic dreams when they should have chosen the far more lucrative and entertaining path of reality television.
You don't have to repeat those bitter journalists' mistakes. You can choose a path somewhere in between.
I'm from Rolling Stone has started an
online writing contest.
Continue reading I'm from Rolling Stone's online writing contest
Posted Dec 14th 2006 8:03PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Industry, MTV, Pickups and Renewals
MTV, a network that can no longer claim to be the "music authority," and
Rolling Stone, a magazine that lost its counterculture credibility when Hunter S. Thompson and Lester Bangs pulled up stakes over twenty years ago, have
teamed up for a reality series -
I'm with Rolling Stone - that follows six young writers vying for a full-time contributing editor slot at the magazine.
The series, which
TV Squad reported on earlier this year, will make its debut on January 7th at 10PM for a ten-episode run. The six contestants were chosen from a pool of several thousand applicants. They spent this past summer fielding writing assignments from
Rolling Stone's editors - including artist profiles, political coverage and event reviews. Some of the artists that turn up in the series include Ghostface Killah, We Are Scientists, The Roots and Band or Horses.
Continue reading I'm with Rolling Stone premieres in January
Posted May 30th 2006 10:27AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, ABC, Talent, Grey's Anatomy, Supernatural
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, the actor who played the love of Izzie's life on
Grey's Anatomy, just landed a role in a new drama slated for ABC. The untitled program is another Shonda Rhimes creation (as is
Grey's) and it's about a group of female journalists, so I imagine Morgan has a supporting role.
This may or may not be comforting news to all you
Grey's Anatomy fans who had your hearts broken, as did Izzie, when Morgan died in the season finale. He also has recurring roles on
Supernatural and
Weeds.
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