Roger Ailes has signed a new, four-year deal to run Fox News Channel, Fox Business Channel, Fox stations and 20th Television, News Corp. announced Friday. Ailes is the chairman and CEO of Fox News Channel and chairman of Fox Television Stations Group. News Corp. representatives did not immediately respond to a request from TheWrap for comment. Also read: Fox News Hires Peter J. Boyer From Newsweek Ailes signed a similar five-year contract with News Corporation in 2008. He has been with News Corporation since 1996, the year he launched Fox News Channel. The announcement comes...
- 10/19/2012
- by Tim Molloy
- The Wrap
Fox News has named Newsweek writer Peter J. Boyer as editor-at-large, the cable news channel announced Thursday. Boyer, who was hired by Fox President Roger Ailes, has spent the majority of his career writing for the New Yorker, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. Now, he will contribute to the cable television channel and Fox's digital platforms. "I have followed Peter's work throughout his storied career," Ailes said in a statement. "He's a talented and insightful journalist who will add weight and depth to our investigative reporting." Also read: Newsweek...
- 10/18/2012
- by Alexander C. Kaufman
- The Wrap
The former speaker's top aides bolted en masse Thursday, leaving his campaign in tatters. Peter J. Boyer on staffers' complaints about Gingrich's rogue inclinations, the Greek cruise with wife Callista that was the final straw-and whether the candidate has any chance of recovering.
Newt Gingrich's troubled campaign for the Republican presidential nomination finally imploded Thursday when the core of his political team, vexed by the candidate's own erratic performance, quit en masse. The decisive moment came in a meeting at Gingrich's Washington, D.C. office between the candidate and his top two operatives, campaign manager Rob Johnson and strategist Sam Dawson, who had hoped to convince Gingrich that his approach as a candidate-which one insider described as "appalling" -needed a drastic transformation. When Gingrich did not agree, Johnson and Dawson said they were done.
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Newt Gingrich's troubled campaign for the Republican presidential nomination finally imploded Thursday when the core of his political team, vexed by the candidate's own erratic performance, quit en masse. The decisive moment came in a meeting at Gingrich's Washington, D.C. office between the candidate and his top two operatives, campaign manager Rob Johnson and strategist Sam Dawson, who had hoped to convince Gingrich that his approach as a candidate-which one insider described as "appalling" -needed a drastic transformation. When Gingrich did not agree, Johnson and Dawson said they were done.
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That began a cascade of defections,...
- 6/10/2011
- by Peter J. Boyer
- The Daily Beast
Conservatives longing for a 2012 savior are increasingly fixating on Texas' governor. Peter Boyer talks to Perry about his suitors, his state's economic success-and his timetable for deciding.
One of the photographs that Texas Gov. Rick Perry keeps on his BlackBerry is a portrait of Aurora P. ( "Rory" ) Perry, the family's black Labrador Retriever, who last year acquired a key role in local Perry legend. The governor and the dog were out for an early morning jog when a coyote suddenly appeared, growling at Rory. Perry, who carries a Ruger .380 handgun in his belt when he jogs, pulled the weapon and shot the coyote dead. When some Austin locals protested that Perry's reaction was excessive, and dangerous, he shrugged it off. "Don't attack my dog," he said, "or you might get shot."
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One of the photographs that Texas Gov. Rick Perry keeps on his BlackBerry is a portrait of Aurora P. ( "Rory" ) Perry, the family's black Labrador Retriever, who last year acquired a key role in local Perry legend. The governor and the dog were out for an early morning jog when a coyote suddenly appeared, growling at Rory. Perry, who carries a Ruger .380 handgun in his belt when he jogs, pulled the weapon and shot the coyote dead. When some Austin locals protested that Perry's reaction was excessive, and dangerous, he shrugged it off. "Don't attack my dog," he said, "or you might get shot."
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- 5/27/2011
- by Peter J. Boyer
- The Daily Beast
Beyond the buzz over the delays, Gabrielle Giffords, and President Obama, Endeavour's launch Monday signifies the setting of the 30-year-old shuttle program-ceding U.S. space preeminence to the Russians. Peter J. Boyer reports.
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama once remarked that America's space program had become so uninspiring the space shuttle missions scarcely qualified as news. He could not have foreseen the drama attending the twice-delayed launch of the shuttle Endeavour. As many as half a million people crowded the beach roads and byways around Cape Canaveral to watch the stubby space plane push through the morning sky, an awesome spectacle of rocket power, before disappearing into orbit for its rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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For months, the mission's most captivating angle has been the parallel saga of Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman whose husband,...
As a presidential candidate, Barack Obama once remarked that America's space program had become so uninspiring the space shuttle missions scarcely qualified as news. He could not have foreseen the drama attending the twice-delayed launch of the shuttle Endeavour. As many as half a million people crowded the beach roads and byways around Cape Canaveral to watch the stubby space plane push through the morning sky, an awesome spectacle of rocket power, before disappearing into orbit for its rendezvous with the International Space Station.
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For months, the mission's most captivating angle has been the parallel saga of Gabrielle Giffords, the Arizona congresswoman whose husband,...
- 5/16/2011
- by Peter J. Boyer
- The Daily Beast
In reporting my Newsweek cover story on Gabrielle Giffords' recovery from a gunshot wound to the head, I learned from her doctors that insurance coverage for treatment of brain trauma injuries is spotty and unpredictable. One key therapy is not offered to troops, a glaring deficiency in military health care that investigative outlet Pro Publica has been persistently exposing for months. Now Rep. Giffords' office is making the case for brain trauma rehab to be included in the health-reform law, setting up the possibility that Giffords' injury-already a human interest story-could become a political one as well.
The life-saving medical treatment that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords received in the critical first hours after being shot in the head occurred in a trauma unit headed by a former combat surgeon, Dr. Peter Rhee, whose approach was shaped on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. The crime scene had been, in essence, a combat zone,...
The life-saving medical treatment that Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords received in the critical first hours after being shot in the head occurred in a trauma unit headed by a former combat surgeon, Dr. Peter Rhee, whose approach was shaped on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. The crime scene had been, in essence, a combat zone,...
- 4/19/2011
- by Peter J. Boyer
- The Daily Beast
Three months after the Arizona attack that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a coma, she is walking, talking, and wants to attend her husband's space shuttle launch. But will she ever fully recover? In this week's Newsweek, Peter J. Boyer has the untold story of the congresswoman's struggle.
Reports on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' recovery have been so positive that there's even been talk of her running for Senate. But in conversations with Giffords' staff, doctors, and husband Mark Kelly, Peter J. Boyer has learned that for all the progress Giffords has made, she still has a long way to go.
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Since Giffords was shot Jan. 8, at an event at a Tucson mall, her family and staff, colleagues and friends have been eager to deliver stunning details about her recovery. The first big news was delivered by the president himself...
Reports on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' recovery have been so positive that there's even been talk of her running for Senate. But in conversations with Giffords' staff, doctors, and husband Mark Kelly, Peter J. Boyer has learned that for all the progress Giffords has made, she still has a long way to go.
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Since Giffords was shot Jan. 8, at an event at a Tucson mall, her family and staff, colleagues and friends have been eager to deliver stunning details about her recovery. The first big news was delivered by the president himself...
- 4/11/2011
- by The Daily Beast
- The Daily Beast
Three months after the Arizona attack that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in a coma, she is walking, talking, and wants to attend her husband's space shuttle launch. But will she ever fully recover? In this week's Newsweek, Peter J. Boyer tells the untold story of the congresswoman's struggle.
The scheduled launch this month of the space shuttle Endeavour has aroused public interest at a level not seen since Nasa's glory days-not because of the mission itself, but because of one potential spectator at the Florida liftoff. Since the Jan. 8 shooting spree in Tucson that killed six people and gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, it has been the goal of her family and doctors that she attend the launch of the Endeavour, commanded by her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly. For Gabby (as she is now known by all), it would be a symbolic moment of triumph. For the country and the world,...
The scheduled launch this month of the space shuttle Endeavour has aroused public interest at a level not seen since Nasa's glory days-not because of the mission itself, but because of one potential spectator at the Florida liftoff. Since the Jan. 8 shooting spree in Tucson that killed six people and gravely wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, it has been the goal of her family and doctors that she attend the launch of the Endeavour, commanded by her astronaut husband, Mark Kelly. For Gabby (as she is now known by all), it would be a symbolic moment of triumph. For the country and the world,...
- 4/11/2011
- by Peter J. Boyer
- The Daily Beast
The final blastoff for Nasa's Endeavour-commanded by the husband of wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords-has been pushed back at least 10 days due to a scheduling glitch, reports Peter J. Boyer.
The scheduled April 19 launch of the space shuttle Endeavour is expected to be postponed for at least 10 days, sources close to the project said Sunday.
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The Endeavour is commanded by veteran astronaut Capt. Mark Kelly, who, while training for the mission, has also been attending to his wife, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering in a Houston rehabilitation hospital after an assassination attempt in Tucson on January 8. Kelly has said that he hopes his wife will be able to attend the launch, from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The two-week mission, which will include four space walks and a rendezvous with the International Space Station, is the last for the Endeavour,...
The scheduled April 19 launch of the space shuttle Endeavour is expected to be postponed for at least 10 days, sources close to the project said Sunday.
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The Endeavour is commanded by veteran astronaut Capt. Mark Kelly, who, while training for the mission, has also been attending to his wife, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who is recovering in a Houston rehabilitation hospital after an assassination attempt in Tucson on January 8. Kelly has said that he hopes his wife will be able to attend the launch, from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The two-week mission, which will include four space walks and a rendezvous with the International Space Station, is the last for the Endeavour,...
- 4/4/2011
- by Peter J. Boyer
- The Daily Beast
Rep. Giffords' brother-in-law Scott Kelly has been in orbit since October. He tells Peter J. Boyer about how he heard of the shooting, his twin's return to space, and Nasa's new shine.
When astronaut Scott Kelly blasted into orbit last October, bound for a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station, among the items he brought with him were two books, tales of heroic sojourners overcoming dire peril far from home. One of the volumes was Slavomir Rawicz's The Long Walk, the story of a Polish cavalry officer's escape from the Soviet gulag in Siberia, and his 2,000-mile trek to freedom in British India. The other was South, Sir Ernest Shackleton's classic memoir of disaster, and escape, on an Antarctic expedition in 1915. Life aboard the space station seemed almost a dull routine in comparison.
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In the ‘60s and ‘70s,...
When astronaut Scott Kelly blasted into orbit last October, bound for a six-month stint aboard the International Space Station, among the items he brought with him were two books, tales of heroic sojourners overcoming dire peril far from home. One of the volumes was Slavomir Rawicz's The Long Walk, the story of a Polish cavalry officer's escape from the Soviet gulag in Siberia, and his 2,000-mile trek to freedom in British India. The other was South, Sir Ernest Shackleton's classic memoir of disaster, and escape, on an Antarctic expedition in 1915. Life aboard the space station seemed almost a dull routine in comparison.
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In the ‘60s and ‘70s,...
- 2/18/2011
- by Peter J. Boyer
- The Daily Beast
Jim Webb rocketed to national stardom four years ago as the bold new face of the Democratic Party-but his moment was short lived. Peter J. Boyer on the real reason Webb is leaving the Senate.
The end of Jim Webb's senatorial career, with his announcement that he would not seek re-election in 2012, was far less surprising than the fact that Webb even had a senatorial career to end. He'd arrived in the Senate seeming ready to leave, having declared, in a 2006 debate with his Republican foe, George Allen, "When I go to my grave, whether I was a United States Senator or not is not gonna be high on my agenda."
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And that was when he was trying to convince Virginia voters to put him into the Senate. That 2006 Webb campaign had the feel of a forced march, a mood...
The end of Jim Webb's senatorial career, with his announcement that he would not seek re-election in 2012, was far less surprising than the fact that Webb even had a senatorial career to end. He'd arrived in the Senate seeming ready to leave, having declared, in a 2006 debate with his Republican foe, George Allen, "When I go to my grave, whether I was a United States Senator or not is not gonna be high on my agenda."
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And that was when he was trying to convince Virginia voters to put him into the Senate. That 2006 Webb campaign had the feel of a forced march, a mood...
- 2/10/2011
- by Peter J. Boyer
- The Daily Beast
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