The appointment, on Jan. 18, of Les Goodstein as president and chief operating officer of the Daily News is part of what insiders at Mortimer Zuckerman’s media holdings have taken to calling “Fred and Mort’s divorce.”
Fred Drasner, Mr. Zuckerman’s business partner who ran the day-to-day operations of the paper as its chief executive and Read More
Employees at Time Inc., the magazine division of Time Warner Inc., found that they’ll soon be working for AOL Time Warner in an e-mail sent companywide before their arrival at work on Jan. 10. Far from panicking about handing over their professional fates to a Virginia-based cyberspace outfit, the benefits-swaddled scribes rejoiced: Almost all of Read More
There was Time magazine, in its Jan. 1, 2000, issue, using President Clinton as a freelance news analyst. The President weighed in on the resignation of Boris Yeltsin with the usual empty prose common to all heads of state.
And, anyway, did Mr. Clinton really write this stuff?
Did he get a check from Read More
As journalism jobs go, what could be more fun than writing or editing for the “Weekend Journal”? Plenty, apparently.
The lively, colorful section nestled in every Friday’s Wall Street Journal stands out among the gray columns of trade reports. Since its debut as a separate section in March 1998, it has become an oasis of Read More
The New York Times has finally named its replacement for lead film critic Janet Maslin. Envelope, please. And the job goes to … three different people!
Namely, Elvis Mitchell of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram ; A.O. Scott, formerly an editor at the New York Review of Books and Lingua Franca ; and Stephen Holden, who Read More
Frank Lalli, the new, surprise editor of George magazine, started work at 9:30 A.M. on Nov. 30. He wasn’t taking John F. Kennedy Jr.’s empty office but was sitting just outside of it, in the office of Kennedy’s assistant, RoseMarie Terenzio. Ms. Terenzio left the magazine shortly after the October memorial issue closed. Mr. Lalli Read More
Ed Kosner’s semi-independent Sunday Daily News is getting its own gossip columnist to cover more upscale scoop. Mr. Kosner has hired New York magazine’s Deborah Mitchell. “She’s going to be doing more items relating to publishing, politics and real estate,” said Mr. Kosner. “She’ll do some show business, but not as much as Mitchell [Fink] Read More
Tina Brown’s sidekick, David Kuhn, is set to leave Talk magazine for Planet Content, the e-commerce venture being set up by Steven Brill, the founder and editor of Brill’s Content . Mr. Kuhn had followed Ms. Brown from Vanity Fair to The New Yorker to Talk , where he was vice president and executive editor. Read More
Miramax Films signed on as distributor of Gangs of New York , a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, on Oct. 8. Three days later, Talk , the Miramax-owned magazine, reached a quick agreement with the actor that would make him the cover boy for its February issue. The deal came as something of a shock to Read More
Just call him the Butcher Boy. On Nov. 1, just weeks after becoming the editor of The New Republic , Peter Beinart, 28, fired someone: senior editor Jacob Heilbrunn.
Mr. Heilbrunn is older than Mr. Beinart–he’s 34–and was known as the “liberal hawk” of the New Republic staff, according to one of his friends. (This Read More
