Head of Glenn Beck’s Media Empire Quits as The Blaze Burns Down
Source: Daily Beast
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01.29.16 3:56 PM ET
Kraig Kitchin will stay with the company, but resigned from the top job after friction with fellow Beck executive Jonathan Schreiber. A mass exodus of staff may follow.
In what knowledgeable observers say is a sign of increasing turmoil in Glenn Becks troubled media empire, Becks longtime mentor and corporate executive, Kraig Kitchin, has quit as CEO of The Blaze.
Kitchins replacement, Stewart Padveen, a digital startup entrepreneur who joined Becks company last summer, will be the fourth leader of The Blaze since late 2014.
Kitchin, 54, who took over operations of Becks conservative-leaning subscription digital and cable television enterprise last Juneafter two previous CEOs abruptly left in the space of six monthsis resigning along with two other senior executives: Jeremy Price, director of advertising sales, and Liz Julis, director of marketing.
Both are based in New York, 1,500 miles removed from corporate headquarters in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas.
Several other key employees, including at least two senior producers based in The Blazes shrinking New York operation, are expected to follow them out the door.
A source close to the situation predicted a mass exodus from the New York studios, which are housed in a largely unoccupied 35,000 square-foot space at Midtown Manhattans Bryant Park, previously rented by Yahoo, under a 10-year lease costing Becks privately held company an estimated $2 million a year.
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/29/head-of-glenn-beck-s-media-empire-quits-as-the-blaze-burns-down.html
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)No matter how well it pays.
Xipe Totec
(43,872 posts)LittleGirl
(8,261 posts)massive of an organization to have a CEO and actual producers. I thought it was some kind of third rate hicks that volunteered for the positions.
Racism sells. sadly. Burn it down to the ground!
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)What kind of news shows need to have freakin' crane shots?!?!?! No wonder he is going broke and will probably relapse in the near future.
Myrina
(12,296 posts)Who the hell has a real name like that?
Maybe he is too ashamed to use his real name? Unlike the strange Reince Priebus. Is THAT a real name???
Maybe Vince Vaughn can pump some more $$ into it.
I bet Beck misses the glory days when he was popular for making up crazy conspiracy shit on Faux.
BumRushDaShow
(127,301 posts)where he was reportedly living large in his rented Texas digs almost 5 years ago.
I wouldn't be surprised if they shut the whole NY operation down and centralize everything in Texas.
dembotoz
(16,738 posts)perhaps beck and palin are victims of their own success
perhaps add duck dynasty to the list.....
maybe ammo bundy could be the new voice if he gets his ass out of jail
or perhaps from prison rantings would work if he could figure out how to broadcast it