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Tim Molloy is leaving as TV editor of The Wrap for a job at PBS "Frontline." The new TV editor, he says, is Jethro Nededog. From Molloy's farewell post at the site.
As a person who clicks on things, you control not only TheWrap but the entire internet. Your clicks are your votes. You help millions of websites, from this one to… well, almost every other one, decide what we post about every day. You get the internet you make.
When you're good, God you're good. The collective pressure of #SaveOurGirls may help reunite girls and their families. That is, in short, amazing.Sometimes you vote up the silly instead of the vital. But at least you're never dull.
By the way, For Lease signs have appeared on the sides of The Wrap's rented space above the Starbucks at Barrington and National in Mar Vista.
TMZ posted the elevator surveillance cam video of domestic violence that brought down NFL running back Ray Rice. TMZ Sports, TVNewser
ESPN Films and Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight stats-based journalism blog this fall will roll out a pair of documentary-short series. Variety
KCET announced news seasons for City Walk, Artbound and Artbound Presents: Studio A, and a new world music video show called Border Blaster.
"SoCal Connected" on KCET this week covers LA's confusing mural ordinance, a Los Feliz family serving as citizen scientists for the Natural History Museum, and guerrilla gardeners who transform neglected city-owned land into beautiful landscapes.
Neal Broverman, editor-in-chief of Out Traveler, was named the new editor of Los Angeles Magazine's L.A. Driver vertical.
KCRW began local programming on its new frequency in Santa Barbara at 88.7 FM.
Both sides of Laurel Canyon Boulevard between Oxnard and Victory were turned into post-riot Los Angeles for a film shoot for "Straight Outta Compton." Esotouric.com
Here's the trailer for "With All Due Respect," the new Bloomberg Politics show hosted by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann that Monday, October 6, at 5p ET/PT on Bloomberg TV.
And posted to Twitter by Lynette Romero:
20yrs ago today covering a story for @9NEWS on #pikespeak & our news chopper crashed.We all #survived #stillgrateful pic.twitter.com/GAIcOi1tma
— Lynette Romero (@LynetteRomero) September 9, 2014