Perhaps, for the first issue of her redesigned Newsweek, Tina Brown should have put a pregnant Natalie Portman on the cover instead of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. On Monday,…
There’s been a lot of hype over the redesigned New York Times Magazine, not least because the magazine’s new chief, Hugo Lindgren, decided to include an editor’s credit at the…
As early as Thursday, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation could announce plans to split off Sky News in order to gain approval from U.K. regulators for its planned takeover of British…
Since September, the New York Times Magazine has had New York magazine editor Adam Moss up against the ropes. Tuesday, Moss pulled a Micky Ward, taking Times op-ed giant Frank…
Anyone outside of New York City’s media fishbowl could be forgiven for waking up last Monday and wondering what the heck some lady named Tina Brown was doing on the…
Here’s an idea for this year’s Oscars: a montage of rants from celebrity nut jobs, narrated by Charlie Sheen. Sheen’s recent rant against Two and a Half Men co-creator Chuck…
Three-and-a-half weeks before South by Southwest Interactive, Hashable, a real-time digital Rolodex service and entrant in this season’s social networking sweepstakes, is gearing up for the attack.“Basically, this is our…
When Jared Kushner bought The New York Observer in 2006 from its benefactor and owner, Arthur Carter, New York City’s salmon-colored staple had been losing about $2 million dollars a…
I learned two things at Social Media Week’s opening night party on Monday. The first is that The Macallan 10-year is an excellent scotch, with notes of sherry. Indeed, Ben…
The surprise appointment of former Gawker editor Elizabeth Spiers to lead the New York Observer may be more a marriage of necessity than a calculated part of the paper’s new…

