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By Daniel D'Addario and Rozalia Jovanovic 10/24/12 3:29pm

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Marnell. (Courtesy Patrick McMullan)

Calling All Mouseburgers: Cat Marnell, Edith Zimmerman, and Moe Tkacik on Helen Gurley Brown

At last night’s Housing Works panel on the legacy of the late Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown, Vice columnist Cat Marnell stood out. Wearing a tight, translucent white dress and leather jacket, she snapped her gum, played with her hair and  alternately stared wide-eyed at the audience or down at her phone.

“I hate Gloria Steinem,” she announced at one point. “She’s boring and plain. My kind of feminism is that you want to be hot and awesome.” Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 5/29/12 6:30pm

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For Life After Men, Hanna Rosin and Gail Collins Look to Scandinavia

Last Tuesday, Slate DoubleX founding editor Hanna Rosin and New York Times op-ed columnist Gail Collins sat down before a packed house at the New America Foundation to discuss Ms. Rosin’s long-anticipated book, The End of Men, due out September 11 from Riverhead.

As the two journalists tried to explain the persistent wage and power gap between men and women in America, their conversation returned again and again to our more progressive friends in California and Scandinavia. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 2/01/12 11:32am

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The Long and Short of New York Magazine’s Longreads

Last week, Longreads and New York magazine put on a “Behind the Longreads” panel to explain the cost- and time-inefficient path to the #longreads Twitter stream.

The panel was hosted by New York editor-in-chief Adam Moss and three of the magazine’s contributing editors, Wesley Yang, Jessica Pressler and Dan P. Lee. All three of their pieces had been put up for National Magazine Awards, Mr. Moss said, and all three were edited by David Haskell, New York features editor and part-time moonshiner, who was seated in front row. Read More

By Dan Duray 5/18/11 10:27pm

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Collaboration Roundly Praised, Collaboratively, at Asia Society

At the beginning of the Asia Society panel on “International Collaborations in the Arts” this morning, the heavy hitters on the panel seemed at a loss for words. The collaborations in the title mostly referred to traveling exhibits, but there was an analogy they danced around, with talk of “one-offs” and “long-term collaborations.” Finally, some Read More

By Zeke Turner 6/08/10 10:26pm

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Pleasant Chatter at the Future of Media Panel

This afternoon there were five men at the front of the television studio in NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute waiting to speak on a panel about the future of media.

Panelists from Yahoo, Google and AOL sat together on one side next to Jonathan Geller, a 23-year-old who has already built his own Read More

By Deena Sami 4/09/10 7:58pm

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Dr. Ramadan Returns: Packer and Weisberg Man Panel

An eager audience filled Cooper Union’s Great Hall last night as Jacob Weisberg, Slate Group’s chair, moderated “Secularism, Islam & Democracy,” a panel featuring Professor Tariq Ramadan, the Swiss-born Muslim scholar who was barred from entering the U.S. in 2004. Also on the panel was The New Yorker‘s George Packer, the Gallup Center’s Dalia Mogahed Read More