So, where’s Joel
Stein? Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Mr. Stein-the yuk-yuk guy at Time magazine whose column once rotated
with Margaret Carlson and Calvin Trillin-has been like a stand-up comic without
a microphone. Though he’s been sent on various assignments, Mr. Stein’s regular
wisecrack-filled column-along with most of the front-of-the-book Notebook
section-has been Read More
After a month and a half of intense terrorism coverage in The New York Times , tensions are flaring between new executive editor Howell Raines and the paper’s fabled Washington, D.C., bureau, sources at the paper said.
Historically, The Times has given its Washington bureau-the fabled former power base of James Reston and Max Frankel, Read More
There was no honeymoon for Howell Raines, the new executive
editor of The New York Times . Six
days after taking over for Joseph Lelyveld on Sept. 5, Mr. Raines -the paper’s
hard-charging former editorial-page editor and Washington bureau chief-was
tossed into directing The Times ‘
coverage of the terrorist attacks on New York and Read More
What caused Mademoiselle ,
the Jan Brady of Condé Nast, to finally crumple?
Blame Jane Pratt. When it was closed on Oct. 1, the once
comparatively thoughtful Mademoiselle ,
edited by British import Mandi Norwood,
was still trying to mimic the informal, breaking-the-fourth-wall voice that Ms.
Pratt minted over a decade ago at Sassy Read More
No matter how much President
George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld plead that their new war
on terrorism will require a severe clampdown on media access, the public’s
appetite for up-to-the-minute leaks and inside reporting shows no sign of
abating.
Part of this is generational,
of course. Lines like Mr. Rumsfeld’s “the Read More
Tina Brown finally got a Clinton on her payroll.
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, 21, has agreed to write a story for Talk Magazine about her experiences during the World Trade Center attack, a source at the magazine said.
“Chelsea Clinton is pursuing a piece for us related to the World Trade Center disaster,” Read More
“No one is able to grasp the enormity of what we are looking
at, what we are dealing with,” Judy Woodruff said. It was early on the
afternoon of Tuesday, Sept. 11-a few hours after a pair of passenger planes had
ripped into the two World Trade Center towers-and the CNN news anchor, like
many Read More
If The New York Times follows its tradition, Gail Collins will publish her first political endorsements as editor of The Times ‘ editorial page on Sunday, Sept. 9, two days before the primary. Along with her editorial board, Ms. Collins–who has been at her post for less than one month–will have a potent opportunity to Read More
The New York Post
is still publishing out of Manhattan.
We know this because we checked the other day at the Post ‘s 10th-floor newsroom on Sixth Avenue
in midtown. There, a couple hours before deadline, we found Steve Dunleavy, the
reed-thin crusading columnist, sitting in a cubicle, waiting to find out what a
cop Read More
Jennifer Bleyer, a 25-year-old Columbia graduate and freelance writer living in Fort Greene, thinks her Jewish friends are pretty hip. She also believes that a disproportionate numberofthe hipster scrawling around her Brooklyn neighborhood happen to be Jews. And that’s why Ms. Bleyer decided one day that the world needed a magazine about cool Jews, and Read More
