{"id":4129,"date":"2013-03-19T23:25:30","date_gmt":"2013-03-20T06:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2013-03-20T23:42:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T06:42:32","slug":"daily-variety-dead-exex-across-hwd-scrambling-to-figure-out-what-to-do-for-the-first-30-minutes-of-each-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/03\/19\/daily-variety-dead-exex-across-hwd-scrambling-to-figure-out-what-to-do-for-the-first-30-minutes-of-each-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Variety Dead &#8211; Exex Across H\u2019w&#8217;d Scrambling to Figure Out What To Do For The First Hour Of Each Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/envelope\/cotown\/la-fi-ct-variety-20130319,0,3482748.story\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The LA Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>End of an era for Daily Variety<\/h1>\n<h2>Lots of Hollywood honchos need to change their reading habits: The Tuesday edition is Daily Variety&#8217;s last.<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Photos:\u00a0Hollywood backlot moments\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/moviesnow\/la-ca-2012-hollywood-backlot-moments_pictures,0,7451473.photogallery\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px;\" title=\"Daily Variety is sold at a newsstand.\" alt=\"Daily Variety is sold at a newsstand.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trbimg.com\/img-5147d19e\/turbine\/la-1390783-fi-0318-variety1-ac-jpg-20130318\/600\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily Variety has been a print publication for almost 80 years. Above, a Studio City newsstand has issues for sale.\u00a0(Anne Cusack \/ Los Angeles Times\u00a0\/\u00a0March\u00a018, 2013)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Joe Flint, Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"PEBSL000835\" title=\"Leslie Moonves\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/economy-business-finance\/leslie-moonves-PEBSL000835.topic\" target=\"_blank\">Leslie Moonves<\/a>\u00a0has had the same morning routine for decades.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first thing I do after getting out of the shower is pick up Daily Variety and have a cup of coffee,&#8221; the CBS Corp. chief executive said. &#8220;It&#8217;s a 30-year habit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That habit is ending for Moonves and lots of other Hollywood power players, movie and television stars, producers and publicists and thousands of wannabes: Daily Variety is ceasing as a print publication after almost 80 years. Tuesday&#8217;s edition is its last.<\/p>\n<p>The decision shows that Daily Variety has had to grapple with the forces reshaping the industry it covers. Just as the entertainment business has had to adapt to changing media consumption habits, so have the outlets that cover it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re getting out of the buggy whip business,&#8221; said Stan Rosenfield, a veteran Hollywood publicist whose client list includes\u00a0<a id=\"PECLB001030\" title=\"George Clooney\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/topic\/entertainment\/movies\/george-clooney-PECLB001030.topic\" target=\"_blank\">George Clooney<\/a>\u00a0and Robert De Niro.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/envelope\/cotown\/la-fi-ct-variety-20130319,0,3482748.story\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The LA Times<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The LA Times End of an era for Daily Variety Lots of Hollywood honchos need to change their reading habits: The Tuesday edition is Daily Variety&#8217;s last. Daily Variety has been a print publication for almost 80 years. Above, a Studio City newsstand has issues for sale.\u00a0(Anne Cusack \/ Los Angeles Times\u00a0\/\u00a0March\u00a018, 2013) By [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-los-angeles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}