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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 5/30/2007 7:37:21 PM
Title: Barnes quits WSJ for NYT
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
Barnes leaves WSJ for New York Times

I'm very pleased to say that Brooks Barnes, a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, is joining Business Day to cover the entertainment industry from
Los Angeles.

Brooks will replace Laura Holson, who after six productive years in L.A. will return to New York to cover a national beat focusing on the convergence of the communications, wireless and entertainment industries, as I announced earlier. Brooks, who will work closely with Times culture desk reporters based in Los Angeles, will cover the business of Hollywood in all of its fascinating iterations - the players, the studios, the financiers. Included in his Bizday portfolio will be Walt Disney Co., and its sprawling parts.

Brooks has covered the television beat for the Journal the last few years, breaking news and writing smart enterprise stories that chronicle the changes sweeping the TV business, including the far-reaching impact of the Internet on programmers and viewers. He's been a formidable competitor, writing about everything from major job cuts at NBC in reaction to the changing dynamics of the industry (a story he had first) to the threat of the Internet to the profitability of local TV stations (which once had licenses to print money) to the spread of blogola (a delightful feature about studios inducing "mommy bloggers" to create buzz for new shows).

Before covering television, Brooks wrote for the Journal's weekend section, spotlighting the "megapool" arms race by hotels to lure customers; the growing market for lowbrow art (like a $7,000 Kiss concert poster); and the plummeting prices of vintage Star Wars memorabilia.

Brooks worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer before he joined the Journal. He has a undergraduate degrees in English and journalism from Marquette University, and a master's in cultural reporting and criticism from New York University.

The entertainment business is in his blood. Brooks grew up traveling far and wide with his parents, who quit their teaching jobs when he was in the first grade to work for a carnival selling cotton candy. Home base was his grandparent's ranch on the Yellowstone River in Montana.

Brooks will work in New York for a month or two to get to know everyone, and then later this summer will head to L.A. It will be great to have Brooks on our team. Join me in welcoming him to the Times.

Larry Ingrassia & Bruce Headlam

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