Talent agency WME is establishing a foothold inside the Beltway.
The Beverly Hills-based representation giant has acquired the literary agency Ross Yoon, the company said on Friday. Led by Gail Ross and Howard Yoon, the agency focuses on the non-fiction space, and has a roster of author clients including Time journalist Molly Ball, Mother Jones’ D.C. chief David Corn, New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, Politico Playbook writer Ryan Lizza, Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty, Vanity Fair correspondent Gabriel Sherman and many others.
As part of the deal — financial terms weren’t disclosed — Ross and Yoon will join WME as partners and bring agent Ethan Bassoff and coordinator Dara Kaye with them. A media lawyer in addition to founding the literary agency, Ross is also a partner at law firm Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold in D.C. Yoon, a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University as well as author and book consultant,...
The Beverly Hills-based representation giant has acquired the literary agency Ross Yoon, the company said on Friday. Led by Gail Ross and Howard Yoon, the agency focuses on the non-fiction space, and has a roster of author clients including Time journalist Molly Ball, Mother Jones’ D.C. chief David Corn, New York Times columnist Ezra Klein, Politico Playbook writer Ryan Lizza, Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty, Vanity Fair correspondent Gabriel Sherman and many others.
As part of the deal — financial terms weren’t disclosed — Ross and Yoon will join WME as partners and bring agent Ethan Bassoff and coordinator Dara Kaye with them. A media lawyer in addition to founding the literary agency, Ross is also a partner at law firm Trister, Ross, Schadler & Gold in D.C. Yoon, a former adjunct professor at Georgetown University as well as author and book consultant,...
- 6/2/2023
- by Erik Hayden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
One reward for a successful journalism career at The Washington Post might be a move into a different medium, like NBC News. Leigh Ann Caldwell is reversing the dynamic.
Caldwell, who has been with NBC News since 2014, will join The Washington Post as one of the two writers on its morning newsletter, “The Early 202,” as well as an interviewer of newsmakers and Congressional leaders on Washington Post Live, the news outlet’s streaming-video forum. She has covered Capitol Hill for NBC News since 2019, writing articles and appearing on camera on both NBC News programs as well as MSNBC.
While the notion of a journalist working in text and video simultaneously might seem like an aberration, the fact is that the ability to toggle between media venues has fast become de rigueur across the industry. “I would say that it is all reporting,” says Philip Rucker, deputy national editor at The Washington Post,...
Caldwell, who has been with NBC News since 2014, will join The Washington Post as one of the two writers on its morning newsletter, “The Early 202,” as well as an interviewer of newsmakers and Congressional leaders on Washington Post Live, the news outlet’s streaming-video forum. She has covered Capitol Hill for NBC News since 2019, writing articles and appearing on camera on both NBC News programs as well as MSNBC.
While the notion of a journalist working in text and video simultaneously might seem like an aberration, the fact is that the ability to toggle between media venues has fast become de rigueur across the industry. “I would say that it is all reporting,” says Philip Rucker, deputy national editor at The Washington Post,...
- 4/11/2022
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
As we head into the holiday season, the annual debate surrounding “Love Actually” has fired up once again like clockwork.
Is the beloved romantic comedy a timeless holiday classic or a problematic slog? No matter how many years pass, it seems no one will ever agree. This year, Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty reignited the debate with a Black Friday tweet, sending her followers into a tizzy.
“Is it too soon for me to begin my annual campaign to convince you that “Love Actually” is a terrible movie?” Tumulty wrote.
Is it too soon for me to begin my annual campaign to convince you that "Love Actually" is a terrible movie?
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) November 23, 2018
Also Read: Emma Thompson Says 'Love Actually' Crying Scene Was Inspired by Cheating Ex Kenneth Branagh
Tumulty was immediately deluged by Twitter users sharing their opinions on the movie — both the positive and the profoundly negative.
Is the beloved romantic comedy a timeless holiday classic or a problematic slog? No matter how many years pass, it seems no one will ever agree. This year, Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty reignited the debate with a Black Friday tweet, sending her followers into a tizzy.
“Is it too soon for me to begin my annual campaign to convince you that “Love Actually” is a terrible movie?” Tumulty wrote.
Is it too soon for me to begin my annual campaign to convince you that "Love Actually" is a terrible movie?
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) November 23, 2018
Also Read: Emma Thompson Says 'Love Actually' Crying Scene Was Inspired by Cheating Ex Kenneth Branagh
Tumulty was immediately deluged by Twitter users sharing their opinions on the movie — both the positive and the profoundly negative.
- 11/24/2018
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
In May 2017, one day before a special election to represent Montana in the House of Representatives, Republican candidate Greg Gianforte physically attacked Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs. Provoked only by a question about health care, Gianforte body-slammed Jacobs, breaking his glasses. The candidate and his campaign then lied to police about what transpired, and, the next day, Gianforte won the election. He later pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and was sentenced to perform community service, attend anger management classes and pay a fine. He was also slapped with a 180-day deferred sentence.
- 10/19/2018
- by Ryan Bort
- Rollingstone.com
Joe Scarborough opened up Monday’s edition of “Morning Joe” with a swipe at Mike Huckabee, blasting a tweet from the former Arkansas governor as “so racist” and said it could be compared to something out of Nazi Germany.
“Mike Huckabee sent out a tweet this week, it’s so racist that you even had an awful lot of conservative Christian leaders coming out,” said Scarborough. “Whatever you want to call it — you pick — if you don’t want to pick, let’s say, parallels to the 1930s in Germany, let’s say David Duke, if that makes you feel more comfortable.”
The tweet that Scarborough referred to said that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would use gang members to help win back the House of Representatives for the Democrats.
Also Read: Joe Scarborough Drags Fox News: 'Swallowed the President's Lies Whole'
“Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for...
“Mike Huckabee sent out a tweet this week, it’s so racist that you even had an awful lot of conservative Christian leaders coming out,” said Scarborough. “Whatever you want to call it — you pick — if you don’t want to pick, let’s say, parallels to the 1930s in Germany, let’s say David Duke, if that makes you feel more comfortable.”
The tweet that Scarborough referred to said that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi would use gang members to help win back the House of Representatives for the Democrats.
Also Read: Joe Scarborough Drags Fox News: 'Swallowed the President's Lies Whole'
“Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for...
- 6/25/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
Kellyanne Conway is still in President Trump‘s good graces after she was “counseled” for urging Americans to purchase his daughter Ivanka‘s clothing line during a TV interview.
The top adviser to the president apologized to him on Thursday after telling a Fox News audience to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff” — a remark that rankled both Republicans and Democrats and led to Conway being “counseled” by White House staff.
According to a senior administration official who spoke with CNN, Trump told Conway in that meeting that he backed her up “completely” and that he “hated” the word “counseled,” which...
The top adviser to the president apologized to him on Thursday after telling a Fox News audience to “go buy Ivanka’s stuff” — a remark that rankled both Republicans and Democrats and led to Conway being “counseled” by White House staff.
According to a senior administration official who spoke with CNN, Trump told Conway in that meeting that he backed her up “completely” and that he “hated” the word “counseled,” which...
- 2/10/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
The Univision Democratic Primary Debate averaged 5.95 million total viewers when combined with a simulcast on CNN. The viewers included 2 million watching on Univision and 3.95 million on CNN. Last night’s event was the third-least watched debate of this election cycle. Only MSNBC’s Democratic debate in February and last week’s CNN debate saw fewer viewers. Among the key demographic of adults age 25-54, 2.3 million tuned in to watch former secretary of state Hillary Clinton and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders battle in Miami. The debate was moderated by Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas of Univision, and Karen Tumulty of.
- 3/10/2016
- by Brian Flood
- The Wrap
Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders faced off for their fourth one-on-one presidential debate in Miami — just one day after Sanders won a key victory in Michigan. It was by all means a tame debate, without the fireworks that dominated their last match-up last week. The debate, sponsored by the Washington Post and Univision, was moderated by Karen Tumulty of the Washington Post and the Spanish-language network’s Maria Elena Salinas and Jorge Ramos. Clinton and Sanders sparred over who is the best candidate on immigration, at time “Hispandering” — as moderator Salinas called it — to Latino voters. The showdown comes less than a week before.
- 3/10/2016
- by Itay Hod
- The Wrap
"But there was no struggle. This is pure fiction." - Elizabeth Drew - "Selma vs. History", January 8, 2015 The words above come from Elizabeth Drew's "New York Review of Books" article "Selma vs. History", exploring the controversy surrounding director Ava DuVernay's new movie Selma. I've mentioned this controversy in passing on the podcast and in various articles, but I think it's finally time to address them head on, primarily because those nine words above trouble me a little bit. But before I get to that, let me make an effort to be fair to all involved. Drew is writing in regards to the relationship between President Lyndon Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) and Dr. Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo) as seen in DuVernay's new film. The full text from her opening goes like this: By distorting an essential truth about the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King over...
- 1/9/2015
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
As Ava DuVernay's "Selma" moves out into wide release Friday, just 10 days shy of the Martin Luther King holiday on Jan. 19, the film finds itself in a tug-of-war over accuracy and dramatic license. If you've only skimmed the headlines or caught wind peripherally, here's a quick timeline of some of the debate's highlights. *** December 22: Things begin just before the holiday, when Mark K. Updegrove, director of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, blasts the film's depiction of the King/Johnson dynamic at Politico. "'Selma' misses mightily in faithfully capturing the pivotal relationship — contentious, the film would have you believe," he writes. He then details how Johnson's feet-dragging on the issue of voting rights was less about simple trepidation than politicking and finding the best way to time out the series of events so that Congress wouldn't stop it cold: "Yes, Johnson advocated stripping a potent...
- 1/7/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
ABC News and The Washington Post are partnering for a new version of the "Top Line," the network's daily political program. The show will be re-launched under the new partnership on Monday, May 10.
The program is a daily midday webcast that focuses on the top political news of the day. It will feature a Washington Post journalist each day in the segment "Post Politics." Reporters will include Chris Cillizza, Dan Balz, Karen Tumulty and Anne Kornblut.
Sara Just, Senior producer for ABC News' Digital Media, said, "We're thrilled to be able to present our viewers with this new, co-branded show highlighting not only ABC's political reporting, but reporting from the Washington Post as well."
"We hope that our users are as excited about the new 'Top Line' as we are to bring it to them."...
The program is a daily midday webcast that focuses on the top political news of the day. It will feature a Washington Post journalist each day in the segment "Post Politics." Reporters will include Chris Cillizza, Dan Balz, Karen Tumulty and Anne Kornblut.
Sara Just, Senior producer for ABC News' Digital Media, said, "We're thrilled to be able to present our viewers with this new, co-branded show highlighting not only ABC's political reporting, but reporting from the Washington Post as well."
"We hope that our users are as excited about the new 'Top Line' as we are to bring it to them."...
- 5/7/2010
- icelebz.com
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