Romenesko Memos
Brooks Barnes "will cover the business of Hollywood in all of its fascinating iterations -- the players, the studios, the financiers," says a Times memo. Covering TV for the Wall Street Journal, "he's been a formidable competitor, writing about everything from major job cuts at NBC in reaction to the changing dynamics of the industry ... to the threat of the Internet to the profitability of local TV stations ... to the spread of blogola."
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Barnes has potential to be something of a thorn in LAT's side (Gawker)
