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Gabriel Sherman

Wall Street Rift: Journal Reporters Reject Gigot Line

The Wall Street Journal news staff can live with occasional opposition from the paper’s editorial page. What it can’t live with is the editorial page’s support.

“People feel like we’re walking around with knives in our backs,” one news staffer said. “We rely on our editors to stick up for us. There’s really a Read More

Harvard Prodigy Spends Bradley’s $4 Million; Alumni Await Magazine

“We don’t consider ourselves an alumni magazine in the traditional sense,” said Bom Kim, Harvard class of ’00 and the founder and president of 02138 magazine.

Mr. Kim’s embryonic magazine—named for the Harvard Square ZIP code—has nonetheless mastered one of the traditional roles: putting the touch on alumni. His principal backer is Atlantic Media boss Read More

MSM Takes Another Beating, With Blows From Left and Right

The news business is not a happy place these days. America’s big-city newspapers have been battered by sliding circulation, job cuts, plummeting stock prices and journalism scandals that sent the cable news shouters into a tizzy. Over at the three broadcast networks, it’s not any better: Nightly ratings have skidded to historic lows, and the Read More

The Devil Goes Gaga: Wintour Blasts WWD

Anna Wintour was not pleased with what she saw on the cover. The Vogue editor is famously choosy about her covers, but this was someone else’s: the front page of the May 3 Women’s Wear Daily.

Two days before, she had hosted the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—the annual live, glittery Read More

The Devil Goes Gaga: Wintour Blasts WWD

Anna Wintour was not pleased with what she saw on the cover. The Vogue editor is famously choosy about her covers, but this was someone else’s: the front page of the May 3 Women’s Wear Daily.

Two days before, she had hosted the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—the annual live, Read More