Media In Heat: How Cool Was It In Your Office Today?

As a heat wave grips New York and rest of the country today thanks, Al Gore we wondered whose media office was the coolest. The winner: Deadspin's Will Leitch, whose "office" room 604 at the Casino Queen in East St. Louis is some 50 degrees cooler than it is outside. In New York: New York Times Address: 229 West 43rd Street Temperature Inside: 70+ degrees Who Works There: Executive editor Bill Keller et al. Condé Nast Address: 4 Times Square Temparature Inside: 72 (cut back on AC due to ConEd request) Who Works There: Vogue, W, Glamour et al. Hearst Tower Address: 224 W 57th St Temperature Inside: 74 Who Works There: Esquire, Cathy Black et al. VNU Address: Broadway, New York Temperature Inside: 70 degrees Who Works There: president Mike Marchesano, Billboard, Editor & Publisher et al. Entertainment Weekly Address: 1675 broadway, 28th Floor Temperature Inside: 70 degress Who Works There: William Hooks, associate art director FADER magazine Address: 71 West 23rd Street, Floor 13 Temperature Inside: 73 degrees Who Works There: Andy Cohn, publisher PRWeek Address: 114 W. 26 St., 3rd floor Temperature Inside: 75 degrees Who Works There: Hamilton Nolan, media reporter Huffington Post Address: 560 Broadway, 3rd Floor Temperature Inside: 67 degrees, "AC blasting, cold Diet Cokes in the fridge" Who Works There: Rachel Sklar, Eat The Press Mediabistro Address: 494 Broadway, 4th Floor Temperature Inside: 69 degrees Who Works There: Us Mediabistro West 7494 Santa Monica Boulevard, Suite 303 Los Angeles Temperature Inside: 74 degrees Temperature Outside: 83 degrees Who Works There: Taffy Brodesser-Akner Elsewhere: Will Leitch | editor, Deadspin.com Office: Room 604 of the hotel at the Casino Queen in East St. Louis, Illinois. Apparently casinos have high-speed internet who knew? Temperature Inside: 50 degrees, with lithium coming in through the vents Temperature Outside: 101 degrees; The Mississippi River is in a boil; it's so hot that four tourists touched the St. Louis Arch and vanished in a cloud of vapor David Hauslaib | editor, Jossip Office: Los Angeles Temperature Inside: A climate-controlled 70 degrees, though the controls are right next to me, wielding the power of an office manager Temperature Outside: A sunshiny and dry 85 degrees, with nary a cloud in the sky, but plenty of pollution to inhale Corynne Steindler | editor, Jossip Office: My apartment, hottest part of Brooklyn (I'm sure of it) Temperature Inside: 175 airconditionedless degrees (estimate) Rex Hammock | president of Hammock Publishing; the "rex" of rexblog.com Office: 7th floor of an office building in Nashville, four floors below Keith Urban's record label and still no Nicole Kidman sighting Temperature Inside: < 70 degrees (a constant complaint of staff who must always wear sweaters to meetings in my office) Temperature Outside: 94 (on the way to 98) and it's the good old-fashioned high humidity kind of heat, not any of that "dry" stuff Folio: magazine Office: South Norwalk, CT Temperature Inside: 72 Temperature Outside: 95 Who Works There: Bill Mickey, senior editor Washington Examiner Office: 1015 15th St., NW, 5th Floor, Washington, DC Temperature Inside: 70 degrees Temperature Outside: 98 degrees Who Works There: Patrick W. Gavin, associate editorial page editor; editor, FishbowlDC Isobella Jade | 5'2" model-memoirist Office: Soho Apple Store Temperature Inside: 66 degrees Bob Sacks | president, publisher, Precision Media Group Office: On the middle of an island, in the middle of a lake, in the Berkshires Temperature Inside: 78 degrees Temperature Outside: 98 degrees Tom Zoellner | author Office: 1992 Dodge Ram van conversion (On book tour, today in Dallas) Temperature Inside: 82 degrees, with windows open, while driving at 60mph Temperature Outside: 103 EverydayHealth.com Office: 45 Main Street, Suite 800, Brooklyn, NY Temperature Inside: 69-70 degrees Who Works There: Heather Graham, associate editor The Home Offices: Jared Paul Stern | recovering gossip columnist Office: Oak Hill, NY Temperature Inside: 72 degrees Temperature Outside: 84 degrees Nikki Finke | DeadlineHollywoodDaily.com Office: home/office in Westwood, CA Temperature Inside: 65 degrees (my central air conditioning is going full blast) Temperature Outside: 86 degrees (feels like 110 degrees) Bucky Turco | "publisherist" and editor, Animal Office: luxury loft, Canal St., New York Temperature Inside: A balmy 68 degrees Kyle du Ford | Big & Sharp Office: home basement, Denver Temperature Inside: 73 degrees Temperature Outside: 101 degrees Wendy Knight | freelance travel journalist Office: Basement of a stone farmhouse, Vermont Temperature Inside: 74 degrees. Add ten degrees for each deadline. That's makes it 94 degrees right now. Temperature Outside: 84; 57% humidity Julia Allison | columnist, AM New York Office: Bedroom, New York Temperature Inside: Hot enough that I'm typing naked; Okay, that was a lie, but close to naked Melissa Lafsky | Blogger, Huffpo contributor Office: My living room couch, Mulberry St., New York Temperature Inside: Just cool enough not to sit here marinating in my own ripeness (but only if I sit 4 inches from the AC) Greg Lindsay | editor-at-large Advertising Age and Mediabistro Office: Cobble Hill, Brooklyn Temperature Inside: 74 degrees Temperature Outside: 95 degrees (Weather.com says it feels like 101) EARLIER: Nation Battles Sizzling Heat As Copy Editors Battle Clichés

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