A Manhattan court stenographer caused chaos in New York’s legal system when he typed nonsense instead of recording the proceedings in the trials for which he was responsible – including, in one case, reportedly writing, “I hate my job, I hate my job” into the transcript.
Officials have been rushing to fix the mess, first reported by the New York Post, by calling back witnesses, lawyers and judges in the affected cases to try to reconstruct missing transcripts.
A source at the New York state unified court system confirmed that the stenographer, Daniel Kochanski, 43, had been fired after officials learned of issues with the transcripts for six trials and 24 other legal proceedings he had worked on.
The source said he could not confirm what Kochanski was transcribing but conceded: “He wasn’t transcribing what was happening in the courtroom.” He said Kochanski was fired for “not doing his job.“
Tribune Digital Ventures bought ratings resource TV by the Numbers for an undisclosed sum and hopes to parlay its information into additional revenue streams.
Graham McKenna, the company’s vp of marketing and communications, told Adweek that it is considering the possibility of selling the TV metrics from the site to industry insiders. Tribune Digital Ventures is also looking at expanding TV by the Numbers to include information on how social media influences people to watch certain shows.
Something about this feels significant, especially in the light of TelevisionWithoutPity going away. I wonder who owns BoxOfficeMojo, and whether or not someone’s going to buy that soon?
Marvel Comics’ 10 Greatest Political Jabs Ever | Underwire | WIRED
Marvel Comics’ 10 Greatest Political Jabs Ever | Underwire | WIRED
Even before Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Marvel superheroes have been getting involved with the hot-button issues of the day.
I have to say: I honestly thought there were more of these when I volunteered the article (written last week, running today; that kind of lead time always blows my mind a little).
Owen Gleiberman, the longtime film critic for Entertainment Weekly, has been let go as part of ongoing layoffs at the magazine as Time Inc restructures ahead of a spinoff from Time Warner… Gleiberman’s exit follows the departure of several critics in 2013, including film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum and TV critic Ken Tucker.
That’s the three writers I most closely associated with the magazine. All gone now.
(From here.)
Erika Moen, Amy Falcone, Dylan Meconis, Steve Lieber, and I talked about the ins and outs of freelancing at Emerald City Comicon this past weekend. Here’s a recording for those of you who couldn’t make it!
Well, FINE. Lucy just goes ahead and embeds the recording of the freelance panel instead of linking to it because she’s better at Tumblr than me. Listen here, people.
Entertainment Weekly laid off some staffers Wednesday. Among the people exiting: Deputy design director David Schlow, music critic Nick Catucci, senior editor Kerrie Mitchell.
Last week, they opened up the doors to a HuffPo-style “get the peons to work for free” arrangement, this week, they lay people off. Things aren’t looking too good over there at Entertainment Weekly right now.
Freelance Like a Rockstar – ECCC 2014
Freelance Like a Rockstar – ECCC 2014
Erika Moen, Amy Falcone, Lucy Bellwood, Dylan Meconis, and Steve Lieber discuss the ins and outs of freelancing in the creative world at ECCC 2014.
Relevant to my interests because I am a freelancer, but also because all of these people are fucking fantastic (Note: I don’t actually know Amy, but I am assuming she’s fucking fantastic because of the company she’s keeping here and because of her work.)
Marvel has informed CBR exclusively that April’s “Amazing Spider-Man” #1 has passed 500,000 copies in initial retailer orders. An exact number was not made available, and may change following next week’s order cutoff.
That number would place it, based on Diamond estimates, as the highest initially ordered individual issue in the last decade. January 2009’s “Amazing Spider-Man” #583, which featured a guest appearance from freshly elected President Barack Obama, totaled for more than 500,000 copies, but that number includes combined initial orders and reorders the subsequent month. By comparison, February 2014’s reported top-selling comic of the month – DC Comics’ “Batman” #28 – had estimated sales of 114,089 copies.
Well, hell. Guess all Sony’s advertising dollars for the new film have had a nice side effect for Marvel, if nothing else.