Nora Ephron and Carl Bernstein’s son, Jacob, is on contract at Sunday Styles. [Capital NY]
Outten Golden represents another unpaid intern, this one against Charlie Rose [NY Times]
Ron Paul no longer worth covering, says political news media. [Politico]
Time Style & Design is back, with Emily Blunt on the Read More
Following Hearst suit, Conde Nast said to be overhauling internship programs. No more personal errands! [Fashionista]
The New York Times hired Politico deputy managing editor Bill Hamilton to be a D.C.-based national security editor. Mr. Hamilton was replaced by Gregg Birnbaum, the longtime Post reporter who barely escaped last year. He was promoted from Politico’s Breaking News team. [Politico] Read More
Everyone and their editor is at SXSW right now. [Capital NY]
Like Maureen O’Connor and her editor Nick Denton, who said on a panel that a new system will turn commenters into moderators of the threads they start so that trolls don’t make writers cry anymore. [Adweek] Read More
Chris Hughes bought The New Republic, and isn’t acting all delusional about it.
“Profit per se is not my motive. The reason I’m getting involved here is that I believe in the type of vigorous contextual journalism that we — we in general as a society — need.” [...]He added that he hoped the magazine Read More
Michael Kinsley thinks we should be glad Rush Limbaugh ran his mouth. [Bloomberg]
Limbaugh on his advertisers leaving him: “Only the leftists try to use extortion, pressure, threats to silence opposing voices. We don’t do that.” [NY Times]
So we guess those two stations who dropped him were leftists huh. [Mediaite]
Alt-weeklies are banding together for content exchange. [Nieman Lab] Read More
When Robert Olen Butler’s wife Elizabeth Dewberry left him for Ted Turner, he emailed friends and colleagues: ”She will not be Ted’s only girlfriend. Ted is permanently and avowedly nonmonogamous. But though he has several girlfriends, it is a very small number, and he does not take them up lightly, and he gives them his absolute support when he does. And Elizabeth’s leaving me is as much about the three weeks a month she is alone as it is about the week a month she is with Ted.” [Hollywood Reporter] Read More
First we thought Groupon would kill newspapers by supplanting advertising for local businesses, but now it might save their circulations. People actually buy those Groupons for magazines and newspapers. [AdAge]
How weird is it that there are still Digital Magazine Awards and Regular Magazine Awards? [Capital NY] Read More
