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Sridhar Pappu

N.Y. Post Spits in Front Yard of Daily News

In recent weeks, a new billboard has popped up across the street from the Daily News’ remote quarters on the far east end of 33rd Street, where the paper has toiled in near desolation since its move from its beloved Art Deco headquarters on 42nd Street nearly a decade ago.

“New York Post Circulation: 652427,” Read More

Off the Record

“It’ll take a while,” Adam Moss, the newly installed editor in chief of New York magazine, told Off the Record. “People will be disappointed by the magazine for a while-only because the expectations now, I guess, are pretty high.”

It was Monday, Feb. 16, three days after Mr. Moss was officially taken off the payroll Read More

N.Y. Post Spits in Front Yard of Daily News

In recent weeks, a new billboard has popped up across the street from the Daily News ‘ remote quarters on the far east end of 33rd Street, where the paper has toiled in near desolation since its move from its beloved Art Deco headquarters on 42nd Street nearly a decade ago.

“NewYork Post Circulation: 652427,”the Read More

Off The Record

“I see part of the magazine’s job, a big part of the magazine’s job, as starting conversations,” New York Times Magazine editor Gerald Marzorati said.

Mr. Marzorati was speaking late in the afternoon on Feb. 2, having sparked the loudest conversation of his term since taking over for current Times culture czar Adam Moss last Read More

Media

Off the Record

The conservative movement, which at various points has felt slighted, ignored, abused, dismissed and otherwise thoroughly adrift in coverage by New York’s “media elites,” has finally found a place in The New York Times. Sort of.

For the next year, David Kirkpatrick-formerly the man charged with covering the book publishing industry-will cover conservatives. Not the Read More

Off the Record

Just before Christmas, New York Times sports reporter Mike Wise, who’d spent the better part of a decade at the side of Pat Riley and Shaquille O’Neal, Latrell Sprewell and the pre-rape suspect and Nutella pitch man Kobe Bryant, got an e-mail from Emilio Garcia-Ruiz, editor of The Washington Post ‘s sports section. Mr. Garcia-Ruiz-himself Read More

TIMES Stars Spar: Reporters Rock BAGHDAD BUREAU

In the first week of December, Roger Cohen, then foreign editor of The New York Times , visited the Baghdad bureau in hopes of quelling what had become an increasingly volatile, strife-ridden outpost. Located at the center of one of the most dangerous and the most vital reporting theaters today, the bureau, according to sources, Read More

Lost in Neverland

“The truth hurts,” said Steven Erlanger, culture editor of The New York Times , when asked about the radioactive Michael Jackson story his newspaper published on Dec. 31.

In the story, reporter Sharon Waxman quoted an unnamed source claiming that CBS in effect paid Michael Jackson $1 million for the access that led to an Read More

What a Press Year: Howell, New York-And War to Cover

In 2003, the media clubhouse doors flew open. And the kids outside-the people who don’t rate Julian Niccolini’s lunchtime seating chart at the Four Seasons, who don’t spend their evenings at the Explorers Club-didn’t like what they found.

They saw the top editors of the most important news organization in the world undone by hubris Read More

Wasserstein Ices Zuckerman’s Zoo, Buying New York

Lightning struck the New York magazine sweepstakes Dec. 16 in the form of Bruce Wasserstein, the taciturn, driving deal magnate who dropped $55 million in cash on Henry Kravis’ Primedia and won the right to take charge of a glossy part of journalism history.

It was the stealth assault of 2003, stealing the march Read More