And on Reddit, the comprehensive tick-tock timeline of the tragedy includes news coverage, victim accounts and twitter feeds.
The French premiere of "Dark Knight," scheduled for tonight, is cancelled, as are media interviews with the film's stars.
GalleyCat, MediaBistro's book publishing blog, is organizing a donation drive to the Red Cross in Aurora, Colorado.
Nikki Finke, as part of her ongoing campaign to win hearts and minds, sent her thoughts and prayers to the victims. On wait, not at all. Just the opposite. She worries that it might affect "The Dark Knight Rises"'s opening box office numbers.
In other, less tragic news:
DirecTV and Viacom reached an agreement this morning, ending the a nine-day-long blackout of certain channels. DirecTV customer can once again flip between Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, and other cable channels.
It's a big week for Bloomberg Business Week. Newsweek senior writer (and former Observer staffer) Nick Summers was hired as a finance correspondent, Huffington Post senior editor Jeff Muskus is going over to Businessweek as an associate news editor, and NYT' personal technology editor (and recently named columnist) Sam Grobart will be a senior tech correspondent for Businessweek.
The New Republic is finally getting some traffic with Walter Kirn's cover story “Confessions of an Ex-Mormon." The first person account of being a Mormon, which was originally written for Kirn's old employer GQ, is generating traffic for TNR through timeliness, Longreads apps and twitter recommendations (and showing up in our Facebook feed), and annoying GQ, who had planned to publish the piece in the August issue.
Mike Daisey, the "This American Life" fabulist, is still performing his show about Steve Jobs, despite the National Public Radio retraction and public national shaming. The Atlantic Wire's Rebeca Greenfield saw it, and writes that "Daisey embellished, which in journalism means lied." Turns out, once a monologist no longer claims his monologue is journalism, "embellishing" (ahem, lying) is fine.
Is giving an employee a Leonard Cohen book sexual harassment? Maybe. A partner at the Silicon Valley VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is claiming that the gift of Mr. Cohen's Book of Longing "was equivalent to making a crude proposal or touching in an inappropriate place." The Canadian singer/songwriter/ladies man does have some questionably cringeworthy lyrics when bandied about the office. We just hope that the judge has a raspy, old man voice if he ends up reading it out loud in court. The lawyer representing Kleiner Perkins will be in court today to argue for arbitration.
Startup "social ebook retailer" Zola Books hired two veterans of traditional book publishing. Seale Ballenger, VP and group publicity director at HarperCollins, will handle marketing and publicity and Mary Ann Naples, formerly VP of business development at OpenSky, will be in charge of business development when the startup launches in the fall.
Writers House agent Kenneth Wright is going back to the publishing side - this time as a V-P and Publisher at Viking Children's Books. Before he was a literary agent, Mr. Wright worked at HarperCollins and Scholastic.
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