The question that everyone was asking leading up to the release of Shattered Glass , the Billy Ray journo-drama on the rise and fall of New Republic reporter Stephen Glass, was whether Mr. Glass would profit from the film.
He didn’t.
Mr. Glass’ novel, The Fabulist , a light fictionalization of his heavy fictionalizing Read More
The last time Daniel Okrent worked for The New York Times , he was a student at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with a plum stringer assignment and a bad attitude.
“Watch out! I’m from The Times !” he said recently, making fun of his 19-year-old self from the comfort of his Read More
Martin Dunn had only been on the job for a few hours when the Staten Island Ferry-the vessel on which thousands of New Yorkers travel to and from the island of Manhattan-crashed into a concrete pier at the St. George Terminal on Oct. 15, violently killing 10 people.
For the newly minted editorial director of Read More
“We’re sitting up there looking at each other, wondering, ‘What’s going on?’” said Fox Sports announcer Joe Buck.
It was two days after he’d witnessed the brawl of the fall: the American League’sbest pitcher, Pedro Martinez, taking down 72-year-old Yankees bench coach Don Zimmer in Game 3 of the American League Championship Series followed by Read More
Jazzy, the Yorkshire terrier that was propelled to stardom by his owner, New York Post columnist Cindy Adams, has died. Ms. Adams confirmed Jazzy’s death to Off the Record Oct. 7, putting to rest the rumors that had been circulating in Manhattan gossip circles for some weeks.
“It’s still too raw for me,” Ms. Adams Read More
“I think their life is so hard,” said Amy Astley as she sat talking about the young people-the actors and actresses, the models and rock stars-who fill the pages of her magazine, Teen Vogue .
The hazel-eyed, blond-haired ballerina turned editor in chief has such confidence in the girls who read and appear in Teen Read More
From 2001 to this summer, Bill Keller was tucked away in a 10th-floor office at the Times headquarters on West 43rd Street, thinking through Op-Ed pieces on topics from workplace smoking bans to the military build-up in Iraq.
Now that he’s back on the third-floor newsroom, the conversations in his new office-where he’s spent the Read More
Martin Dunn, who headed the Daily News as editor in chief following one of the most turbulent periods in the paper’s history, will return to the News in a newly created high-level position, sources familiar with the matter said.
Beginning whatpromises to be a dramatic makeover of the paper, Mr. Dunn will return to the Read More
The New York Times is trying to beef up its television-news profile in time to become a network player in the 2004 Presidential election campaign.
Last spring, the paper of record first announced a partnership to co-own and run the Discovery Civilization Channel; by December 2002, The Times had renamed it the Discovery Times channel Read More
“Magazine editors are the new rock stars,” said David Zinczenko, the dreamy, hazel-eyed editor in chief of Men’s Health as he sat in a taxicab early on the morning of Wednesday, Aug. 27. “It’s about time people start recognizing us as the smart, funny guys that we are. And we smell better, too.”
Mr. Zinczenko’s Read More
