Jim Kearney

Managing Editor, TVCriticism.com

Jim Kearney is an educator, writer, and former executive with special expertise in television programming.

If the name's familiar, you may have heard it on the radio. For nine years Jim was a correspondent for Los Angeles NPR affiliate KPCC-FM, conducting weekly in-depth interviews with the leading writers, producers, technologists, and executives in the television industry.

For a generation of students, he has also brought many of these same industry leaders into his graduate television seminars at Loyola Marymount University.

Jim also shares his expertise with executives and creative artists pursuing excellence in television. A thrice-published author of light comedic novels, he enjoys the creative process and respects its formidable challenges. Clients who sought Jim's advice became industry leaders in first-run syndication in the 1970s; network primetime in the 1980s; and cable originals in the late 1990s. In a recent assignment, Jim informed a high tech sales force on changes in entertainment and media.

Jim has worked as a comedy development and current programs executive for a Hollywood studio; a programming and promotion strategist for a cable MSO; and as a number cruncher and ratings prognosticator for a Madison Avenue advertising agency. He has worked in non-fiction production and writing for major league baseball, for a long-running hit quiz show, and for a leading PBS station.

As an undergrad, Jim studied with Professor Marshall McLuhan at Fordham University, and then took his Master's from U.S.C.'s School of Cinema-Television.

A former TV critic for both KPCC-FM and The Hollywood Reporter, Jim now reviews television for PajamasMedia.com and TVCriticism.com, where he has been Managing Editor since September, 2005.

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