What a week!
First, “restructuring” at the New York Daily News resulted in a flurry of long-anticipated pink slips.
“It is a process that has been difficult and painful,” News editor in chief Colin Myler and publisher Bill Holiber wrote in a staff memo that was first obtained by Capital NY. “But it is an inevitable consequence of the challenges we continue to face.” Read More
The PEN World Voices Festival, which took place at several venues throughout the city last week, is ostensibly devoted to highbrow literary achievement, featuring the likes of Philip Roth, Lewis Lapham and Naomi Wolf.
So it was surprising that Manhattan Mini Storage was the subject of a panel held Sunday in the Frederick Read More
The Financial Times celebrated 125 years of newspapering last week with a tasteful fete befitting both the age and the stately demeanor of the British newspaper. May Day, which is known in other parts of the world as International Workers’ Day, seemed as good a day as any to toast a long-lasting, highly regarded newspaper devoted to financial news. Read More
Last week was quite a whirlwind for New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter. Top of The Morning: Inside the Cutthroat World of Morning TV, his look at the world of morning television, hit shelves, and Mr. Stelter found himself in the potentially awkward situation of appearing as a guest on morning shows to talk about a book about morning shows.
At press time, Mr. Stelter had done around 20 media appearances, with more scheduled. He was on Morning Edition, Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, CNN’s Early Start, Entertainment Tonight and Inside Edition. Revelations were sprinkled throughout the tabloids and on the cover of Us Weekly, which featured a smiling photo of Ann Curry in a yellow cardigan, arms defiantly resting on her hips, with the headline “Stabbed in the Back: They called her ‘Big Bird’ and plotted to get rid of her. How Ann Curry’s coworkers tortured her and why she won’t forgive Matt Lauer.” Read More
When Matthew Keys tweeted on Monday morning that he had been fired from his position as deputy social media editor at Reuters, speculation spread quickly on the Internet.
Mr. Keys, who last month was indicted for conspiring with the hacker group Anonymous to gain illegal access to the website of The Los Angeles Read More
The dream of the ’90s was alive on Sunday at the second annual Brooklyn Zine Fest at Williamsburg’s Public Assembly. Lines snaked all the way to the end of the block as people waited to catch up on the latest small-production publications. Eighty-five official purveyors sold a range of homemade booklets to an estimated 2,000 Read More
When Dan McCarthy, Urban Daddy’s Boston editor, woke up on Friday morning, he was hungover, on deadline and unable to leave a lady’s bed due to the lockdown of the city following the Boston bombing and the ensuing manhunt.
Awkward!
Mr. McCarthy, who had watched the marathon from a PR firm’s office overlooking the finish Read More
[UPDATE: The man in the photo has been identified as a 27-year-0ld named Jeff Bauman, Jr., and is in stable condition, according to a Facebook post written by his father. The New York Times published this account, along with the photo, on Tuesday evening.]
Among the many photos that captured both the senselessness and the humanity Read More
On a sunny Sunday, a roomful of would-be bohemians gathered in the basement of McNally Jackson Books to listen to Katie Roiphe, that great defender of the lost art of messy lives, Daily Beast book editor Lucas Wittmann, publisher and author James Atlas and novelist Donald Antrim answer the pressing question of our day: were Read More
Yesterday was, unfortunately, a big day for news, but as with any disaster, certain words we use all the time suddenly become inappropriate.
FishBowl NY posted today, explaining the sudden rise in traffic for the Boston Globe website in the lede of the piece.
“Web traffic exploded on the Boston Globe‘s two websites on Monday,” Read More
