R.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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleNot 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...
View ArticleDaily 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...
View ArticleOxford 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...
View ArticleOusted 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleThe Sunset of Si: As the Conde Nast Chairman Fades Away, His Glossy Kingdom...
Illustration: Jason Seiler About six years ago, Tom Florio, then the publisher of Vogue, had an idea. He wanted to expand the fashion bible’s brand into a new platform: online television. The...
View ArticleNot Even The New York Times Is As Glamorous As HBO’s Newsroom
In a particularly lively TimesCast, A.O. Scott and David Carr enjoy a snack and talk journalism movies. Executive editor Jill
View ArticleSavannah Guthrie ‘So Nervous’
Savannah Guthrie started her new job as co-anchor of Today this morning. Previously the show’s 9 a.m. co-anchor and legal correspondent, Ms.
View ArticleWhen Newsweek Was a Journo Swingers Club
Columbia Journalism Review editor-in-chief Cyndi Stivers interviewed Lynn Povich, one of the women who sued Newsweek for gender discrimination in
View ArticleBuzzmedia Buys Spin
After weeks of rumors, Buzzmedia made it official and acquired Spin, adding a legacy print magazine (founded 1985) to its
View ArticleNew 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
View ArticleCorruption: Not Just for Murdoch Tabloids Anymore
For the first time since launching its probe into British tabloids’ bribery and phonehacking practices more than a year ago, Scotland Yard has arrested a reporter not employed by Rupert Murdoch,...
View ArticleIf You Can’t Beat ‘Em, Executive Produce an HBO Movie About ‘Em [Updated]
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are reportedly signed on to executive produce an HBO movie about Roger Ailes, the CEO of their cable rival, Fox News. A la Game Change, it’s an adaptation...
View ArticleEx-Politico Reporter Receives Impressive Public Shaming from Ex-Wife
Joe Williams—the senior White House reporter who was suspended from and later left Politico—is having a rough couple of weeks. Mr. Williams, a former D.C. deputy bureau chief for The Boston Globe, had...
View ArticleEsquire Editor-in-Chief David Granger Wants You to Trust His QR Codes
Say what you will about Esquire, the Hearst lad mag’s willingness to experiment—and frankness about the outcome of those experiments—is unparalleled in the magazine business. As The New York Times...
View ArticleSheila Heti’s Misha Used to Be Katie Roiphe’s Misha
Sheila Heti’s latest novel, How Should a Person Be?, has been subject to lots of extra-ponderous criticism—to say nothing of the lazy comparisons to Lena Dunham’s Girls—because it does this really...
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