East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
The Tunbridge Wells-based accountancy firm Creaseys has recruited a new partner, Tim Page, to head the firm's Private Client practice.
Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Two more classical critics have fallen by the wayside: Paul Horsley at the Kansas City Star and Lawrence Johnson at the Miami Herald. Johnson will continue to cover music at a blog called South Florida Classical Review. Neither paper is...
Sounds & Fury (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
In a post of 10 May of this year, we had, in part, this to say concerning the work of classical music reviewer and journalist,...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
The Washington Post last week hired a permanent staff music critic to succeed Tim Page. Anne Midgette, who has been in the job on an interim basis since January, when Page took a leave of absence, has been hired officially as The Post's classical music critic....
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
From a Washington Post internal announcement, obtained by FishbowlDC: We are delighted to announce that Anne Midgette is the Post's new classical music critic. She has been filling in on a temporary basis since January. Anne was a classical music critic for the New York Times from 2001 to early this year. Before that she was a cultural correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and worked as a teacher,...
PR Leap - Recent News Releases (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
New York and Los Angeles based Mythic Films, shingle for writer/director Ralph Hemecker, is in development on the feature film, bio-pic "Flynn" with Millennium Films. James Acheson of Millennium Films is set to produce. Millennium Films will finance.
EconoSpeak (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
In Friday's (May 23) Washington Post Business section there was a story by Frank Ahrens, "More Than 100 Post Journalists Take Buyout," the third round of these, which will reduce the staff from about 780 to around 700. This is in response to declininig circulation, which peaked at 832,232 in 1993 and is now down to 638,300. Among those taking these early retirements and not being replaced are Pulitzer...
The Sideshow (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
WaPo buyout : " A number of familiar bylines will leave for good or no longer appear regularly in the paper, including those of military affairs reporter Thomas E. Ricks; feature writers Linton Weeks and Peter Carlson; health reporter Laura Sessions Stepp; science reporter Rick Weiss; the husband-and-wife foreign correspondent team of John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore; critics Stephen Hunter, Desson...
JammieWearingFool (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
The steady decline of the dead-tree media continues. Maybe some of them can start a blog.More than 100 Washington Post reporters, editors, photographers, artists and other journalists will take early retirement packages offered by the company as a way to cut costs, reducing the newsroom staff by at least 10 percent. A number of familiar bylines will leave for good or no longer appear regularly
Sounds & Fury (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
The appalling beat goes on. The latest to join in is The Washington Post. Reports the Washingtonian: The [Washington] Post collected six Pulitzer prizes for...
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Giuseppe Verdi's final opera, "Falstaff," has the metabolism of a hummingbird. *** But Bach and Beethoven tell us exactly what they want to tell us, while Mozart lets us find what we want in him, on our own levels of...
East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | 04/18/2008
Protesters against a phone mast in Wadhurst have reacted angrily to the decision to approve the appeal made by communications company O2 Ltd.
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 04/17/2008
We had Desson Thompson down as a "maybe" but today we've confirmed that he has, in fact, taken the buy-out. Eve Zibart : Gone . Richard Harrington : Yes . Annie Groer : Maybe . Gene Weingarten: Maybe . Tamara Jones : Gone . Susan Schmidt : Gone . Tim Page : Gone . Maralee Schwartz : Gone . Tom Ricks tells us "I'll probably take it, but haven't yet made a final decision." Maybes: Dan Balz and Keith...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
The Postie tells FishbowlDC that she will take the paper's buyout. Which brings the latest tally to... Richard Harrington : Yes . Annie Groer : Maybe . Gene Weingarten: Maybe . Tamara Jones : Gone . Susan Schmidt : Gone . Tim Page : Gone . Maralee Schwartz : Gone . Tom Ricks tells us "I'll probably take it, but haven't yet made a final decision." Maybes: Dan Balz and Keith Richburg . Desson Thomson...
Out West Arts (Free subscription) | 04/12/2008
Akademie fur alte Musik Berlin Photo : mine 2008 It was a lovely Friday evening. I, like many others in Los Angeles, spend a lot of time in my car getting to and from work and a variety of things. This is a benefit in some circumstances, one of which is the Metropolitan Opera live radio broadcasts on Sirius, which usually air around 5PM on the West Coast just as drive time begins. Tonight started out...
