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NEWS ABOUT: Variety

Variety stories: 3 news summaries

Changes Afoot for Hollywood Trade Pubs

Variety to charge for online content; THR
will move to web

Sep 18, 09 9:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Variety will go back behind a pay wall next year, less than 2 years after tearing down its old one, the Los Angeles Times reports. Variety.com will be open only to print or online subscribers, just as it was before February 2007. “Everyone thought then that... More »

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online media • paid content • Internet advertising • Variety magazine • Variety • free news • Nikki Finke • Brian Gott • The Hollywood Reporter

OBITUARY

 Showbiz Scribe 
 Army Archerd 
 Dead at 87 

Column appeared in Variety for 52 years

Sep 8, 09 9:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Army Archerd, who chronicled Hollywood for 52 years as a columnist for Variety, died today of mesothelioma, the showbiz publication reports. He was 87; the cancer was thought to be related to exposure to asbestos during World War II. He was known for injecting a social consciousness into his reporting,... More »

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entertainment • Hollywood • AIDS • asbestos • World War II • Variety • mesothelioma • Army Archerd • showbiz • gossip columnist • Rock Hudson • celebrities

Hollywood's Variety  Goes Up for Sale

Owners put trade paper on block to focus on alternative media

Feb 22, 08 12:39 PM CST
(Newser) - Hollywood trade paper Variety is on the auction block, the Los Angeles Times reports. Anglo-Dutch owner Reed Elsevier is selling a publishing operation that produces the 103-year-old Variety and hundreds of other titles, including Publisher's Weekly. The sale is part of Reed Elsevier's strategy to ditch advertising-dependent publications to focus... More »

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entertainment • media • Hollywood • advertising • publishing • Variety

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