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Small-Batch Foodie Mag Gather Is Artisanal Enough for Brooklyn
Two former fashion editors have launched a food magazine that’s artisanal enough for the Brooklyn foodie set. NYLON veterans Fiorella Valdesolo and Michele Outland had long planned on bringing their...
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Deadliest Klatsch: Nick Denton Gives Gawker’s Drive-By Peanut Gallery a...
“When someone comes into your house and throws shit around, you get pissed,” Anna Holmes told The Observer. She was speaking in metaphor: The house was the Gawker Media women’s interest blog Jezebel,...
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Cat Marnell at Vice: Only ‘Logical’
Ousted xoJane beauty editor Cat Marnell—whose relentless documentation of her PCP and pill habits alternately captivated and enraged the women’s blogosphere—has landed a column at (where else?) Vice....
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Nora Ephron’s Moral Journalism
By now it’s clear that many people felt a sense of personal loss when Nora Ephron died from complications from leukemia at the age of 71 last night. A family of artists lost its beloved matriarch,...
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Rupert Murdoch Confirms News Corp. Split in Marathon Memo
Thick-skinned. News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch confirmed reports that he will divide the corporation into two companies—one for television and entertainment, one for newspapers and publishing—in a...
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Supreme Court Health Care Decision Really Confusing, CNN and Fox News Discover
twitter.com/jasonkeath In the race to cover the Supreme Court's ruling on President Obama's health care bill, Fox News and CNN found themselves on the wrong side of the story. Both cable news networks...
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We Can’t Believe We Almost Felt Bad for Ann Curry
The Observer got a little choked up watching Ann Curry smile through the tears as she bid the Today show farewell this morning. But it must have been some auto-sympathy response from our primitive...
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Holy Shit! Wall Street Journal Censors Potty Mouth Rupert Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch didn't overlook The Wall Street Journal in his publicity blitz to promote News Corp.'s plan to split up into two publicly traded companies, one for newspapers and publishing, one for...
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Richard Beckman Out at Prometheus Global Media
Beckman at a THR Oscars party in 2010. There's nothing like a pre-holiday Friday afternoon news dump. While just about everyone is off drinking on a patio somewhere, we imagine, toasting to Katie...
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Arianna Huffington Has Four Blackberries, One iPhone, and Five Human Assistants
The July/August issue of WSJ magazine includes a "day in the life of" Arianna Huffington piece. In addition to chronicling what she eats for breakfast and how many emails she sends each day (yogurt;...
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New York Times Public Editor’s Public Editor Is an Accidental Impostor
It’s safe to say that Matthew Callan, a 34-year-old book production editor, was no one’s go-to source for commentary when CNN anchor Anderson Cooper came out July 2. But in the Twitter tizzy to cover...
View ArticleR.I.P. Newscore: News Corp.’s Weird News Wire Goes Dark, Sheds Staff
As News Corp. shores up its print and television properties leading up to the company’s highly publicized split, its scrappy and beloved internal newswire Newscore has quietly gone dark, with at least...
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New York Times Restaurant Critic Pete Wells Is a Softie, Statistically Speaking
Chefs and restaurateurs, rejoice: a rigorous statistical analysis of the three most recent New York Times restaurant critics suggests that current critic Pete Wells is ever-so-slightly more liberal...
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The New Republic‘s Kate Middleton Cover: SPY Homage?
Our first thought upon glancing at the latest New Republic cover was that new editor-in-chief, Facebook founder and marriage equality activist Chris Hughes was cribbing from Tina Brown's playbook. It...
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Not Dead Yet: The Daily Launches Weekend Magazine
(Image via thedailyfeed.tumblr.com) Despite reports that iPad tabloid The Daily is on News Corp.'s budgetary chopping block, it's not slowing down, editorially speaking. Today The Daily introduced...
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Daily Editor Jesse Angelo: Ignore the ‘Haters’
The Daily editor-in-chief Jesse Angelo has published a rousing staff memo denying our report (and The New York Times' report) that News Corp. top brass had identified the iPad tabloid as a money loser...
View ArticleMargaret Sullivan Named Next New York Times Public Editor
Margaret Sullivan, editor and vice president of The Buffalo News, will be the fifth New York Times public editor, the New York Times Company announced Monday. It was previously reported that her...
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Oxford American Editors Under Investigation Regarding ‘Inappropriate Conduct’
Smirnoff and Fitzgerald, via flickr.com/oxfordamerican Oxford American founding editor Marc Smirnoff and managing/art editor Carol Ann Fitzgerald have reportedly left the "Southern magazine of good...
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Ousted Oxford American Editors Will Fight Their Termination
Smirnoff and Fitzgerald The two Oxford American editors who were fired after a lock out of the quarterly's offices and a "personnel investigation" are lawyering up. Managing editor Carol Ann Fitzgerald...
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The New York Times Put Its Bloggy Ombudswoman Through the Wringer
Photo by Derek Gee / Buffalo News, via twitter.com/Sulliview New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson announced Monday that Margaret M. Sullivan, editor and vice president of The Buffalo News,...
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