Business Executive Index to Mr. Media Interviews

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BUSINESS EXECUTIVE INTERVIEWS

Guy Kawasaki
author, “Reality Check,” “The Mac Way”


Barry Libert
author, “Barack, Inc.”; co-founder, mzinga.com


Stuart Skorman
founder & CEO, Clerkdogs.com, Reel.com, Empire Video


Rick Calvert, Tim Bourquin
co-founders, BlogWorld & New Media Expo


Steve Muth and Ben Papell
co-founders, Voicethread.com


Ed Droste
Hooters Restaurants


Bill Romanowski
NFL football legend, CEO, Nutrition 53


Dave Hagan
Boingo Wireless CEO


Laurel Touby
Mediabistro.com founder, socializer-in-chief


Haroon Mokhtarzada
Webs.com CEO


Alec Foege
Right of the Dial: The Rise of Clear Channel and the Fall of Commercial Radio


Daniel Pink
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko, Free Agent Nation, A Whole New Mind


Alan Levy
BlogTalkRadio.com Founder


Brent Power
TheWB.com






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Laurel Touby, MEDIABISTRO.com founder, socializer-in-chief: Mr. Media Interview

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Laurel ToubyWhen Laurel Touby started MediaBistro.com in 1996, being a freelancer in the media business was a fairly solitary position. She became the socializer-in-chief, organizing events to draw writers and editors together, posting media jobs, which led to educational programs and daily news updates.

In other words, she gave folks like me a community.

I never got too involved in MediaBistro but I appreciated its existence. And I was quite happy for Laurel when, a few years ago, she sold her company for $23 million.

Even better, Laurel has stayed with her company. I invited her on the show to talk about what Mediabistro.com has to offer and to talk about how the disassembly of print media might affect her operation in the future.

You can LISTEN to this interview with LAUREL TOUBY, founder and socializer-in-chief of MEDIABISTRO.COM, by clicking the BlogTalkRadio.com audio player below!

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No Debates for CBS News and Katie Couric?

“It wasn’t a financial decision. It’s a programming decision and finding an appropriate time to put it in prime time. It does cost a fair amount of money in preemption costs to put them in prime time. But that wasn’t the primary reason it didn’t happen.”

-- Sean McManus, president of CBS News, trying -- unsuccessfully -- to explain why TV's highest paid news anchor, Katie Couric, did not host a single one of the 348 televised presidential debates. He was interviewed by The New York Observer's Felix Gillette for the story "Why No Debate for CBS Star Katie?" What's even worse? Nobody noticed Couric was MIA until this week.

Tough week for CBS News anchors past and present, as it was also revealed that former "48 Hours" original anchor Dan Rather was excluded from the celebration of that show's 20th anniversary. He was apparently too busy hosting "The Search for Geraldo Rivera" on HDNet.

Oh, and Edward R. Murrow is still dead. (Thanks to MediaBistro.com for the tip!)

Indiana Jones IV: The New Kid

" I'd be a fool if I didn't consider the history and impact of the Indiana Jones movies before starting this one. I mean, Raiders was the movie that made me first consider screenwriting as a valid career choice. Until then, it had never occurred to me that somebody actually WROTE these things and that, in this case anyway, it seemed like they had a pretty good time at the office while they were doing it. Of course, I'm somewhat daunted by the past when trying to push "Indy" into the present, but the first thing you have to do in any writing job is put all the voices -- studio, critics audience, etc. -- out of your head and write a movie that you, yourself, would enjoy seeing. Any other approach and you're chasing the parade instead of leading it.

"I also think there's a huge risk of writing a "fan" movie in this case, instead of writing an actual movie. I tried to approach this as a standalone movie; you don't need to have seen the others to appreciate or enjoy it."

-- Screenwriter David Koepp on his latest work, the fourth Indiana Jones movie. He was interviewed by E.A. Puck for MediaBistro.com. Koepp's other scripts include The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, Spiderman, and Panic Room.

Predictions R Them

MediaBistro.com asked folks in the media to make fearless predictions of what 2007 will bring our business. Below are a few examples of the 57 unedited insights reporter Dylan Stableford collected; you can read the rest here.

Arianna Huffington | Huffington Post founder
1. Democracy will reign in Iraq (Just kidding.)

2. Lindsay Lohan will be "exhausted" at one point

3. Shocker - Brooks & Dunn will score at Country Music Awards.

4. A famous person will adopt an African baby (you can take that to the sperm bank!)
Dick Cheney's daughter and daughter-in-law will have either a boy or a girl, and he'll nickname it "Go Fuck Yourself."

5. ... and all of the above are going to be reported in the media! (But the blogs will have it first.)

Andy Borowitz | comedian, author
Rupert Murdoch will write a book about Judith Regan entitled If I Fired Her.

Jeff Bercovici | senior writer, Radar
There will be a moderately successful blog started expressly to chronicle the doings of photo assistants at Rodale. The writer will quickly land a book deal and become a regular commentator on The Situation Room.