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Katie Couric was on David Letterman last night talking about the now infamous series of interviews she did with Sarah Palin. Couric concedes the foreign policy questions were not the easiest to answer, she also says she asked Palin about what she read because “it was really just something I was curious about.” Says Dave: “That was an easy question!” and later “maybe she was afraid of offending people who don’t read.”

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Scared the media industry is about to implode? Well, there’s always consulting. Think about it: the short hours, the high wages, the rich clients. Sounds good, right?

Dan Abrams, the former chief legal correspondent at NBC News whose show was recently replaced by wonder-gal Rachel Maddow’s, wants to help you get there.

Abrams, with the help of Rachel Sklar, launched Abrams Research, “a media strategy firm that connects business leaders with a global community of media professionals.”

Abrams told The Wall Street Journal that he already has a roster of “thousands” of media professionals and that billionaire investor Ronald Perelman is its first client.

Abrams Research boasts an impressive “Research Advisory Panel,” including Steven Brill, Bonnie Fuller, Lockhart Steele, Bob Wright, David Zinczenko, and Kevin Reilly. Sign us up.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

Original post by Lux Alptraum

The New Yorker’s Big Idea scribe Malcolm Gladwell was on Stephen Colbert last night discussing his new book Outliers, which is about people who are “off the charts (apparently this category is entirely devoid of women). Also? He has calculated, based on monetary success, the luckiest year to be born in both in the 20th century and ever(!).

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

Original post by Lux Alptraum

Looks like at least one chapter of the long Yahoo soap opera has drawn to a close. Jerry Yang, who co-founded Yahoo back in 1995 announced yesterday that he was stepping down from his position as CEO. The move comes after many, many months of wrangling, proxy battling, and failed takeover and merger attempts — most notably Yang turned down a unsolicited offer of $31 a share in cash and stock from Microsoft — and more recently a failed move to strike a search-advertising partnership with Google.

Yang took over as CEO in June of 2007 amidst “high hopes” but quickly became the object of shareholder frustration and criticism after turning down the Microsoft offer amidst plummeting stock shares. Proxy battler Carl Icahn had promised to replace Yang if he was successful in his bid this past spring, but in the end the two managed to strike a truce, which kept Yang in is position. That said, apparently Yang has been considering stepping down for months. Wired says Yang is “out of the company he cofounded looking anything but a visionary, but instead as yet another high tech entrepreneur…who didn’t realized that time had passed him by.” On the upside Yang’s return to a figurehead position (Chief Yahoo) may pave the way for another deal with Microsoft. As for who might fill Yang’s shoes?

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

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Wishful thinking (he did after all cough up a whole lot of dough for the WSJ not that long ago, you may recall) or does Rupert Murdoch actually know what he’s talking about? (We sort of suspect he does,) Rupe spoke to the future of print at a recent lecture series sponsored by the Australian Broadcast Corporation, and boy is he not gentle:

My summary of the way some of the established media has responded to the internet is this: it’s not newspapers that might become obsolete. It’s some of the editors, reporters, and proprietors who are forgetting a newspaper’s most precious asset: the bond with its readers.

It gets better!

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media

Original post by Lux Alptraum