By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 4/30 6:19pm

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Brian Stelter. (Photo via Facebook.)

Good Times, Bad Times: Brian Stelter Parties On Despite Negative Book Review

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

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 1/04 1:12pm

Living Social

Photo credit: Huffington Post.

HuffPo Takes Us Inside Brian Stelter and Jamie Shupak’s ‘Lovenest’

The Huffington Post Home vertical took us inside the magical, DIY home of everyone’s favorite media couple–New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter and NY1′s traffic reporter Jamie Shupak.

When Michelle Manetti, HuffPo Home’s associate editor, first met Ms. Shupak at a crafting event (side note: what’s a “crafting event”?), she was told that the traffic reporter had an amazing way with the home crafts. But she had to see it to believe it. And a tour of the West Village apartment that Ms. Shupak shares with Mr. Stelter convinced her. Ms. Manetti’s 18 picture slideshow convinced us that…um, they have a very nice place, thanks to Ms. Shupak’s craftiness and Mr. Stelter’s “trusting” personality. Read More

By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 12/06/12 10:00am

Turning The Tide

This sure looks like a freshly cleaned suit.

Brian Stelter Grows Up, Does His Own Laundry Now

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New York Times media reporter Brian Stelter finally did his laundry yesterday, something he apparently hasn’t done since 2008 or 2009. ”Did laundry last night. First time in 3-4 years. Is this what growing up feels like?” the 27-year-old Mr. Stelter posted on his Facebook page this morning.

Some of Mr. Stelter’s 174,012 Facebook subscribers commented to express their disbelief that anyone could wait that long to launder their clothing: Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 3/13/12 4:37pm

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This talk was covered six ways to Sunday. (http://www.imagethink.net)

Jill Abramson Plays the Tech Neophyte at SXSW

New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson spoke at SXSW in Austin, Tex. yesterday, further proof of her tolerance for meta-media spectacles previously hinted at by appearances at the World Economic Forum in Davos and the Iowa caucuses.

Ms. Abramson, well within her area of expertise, appeared in a conversation about “The Future of the New York Times” with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith.

Less than a year after her predecessor, Bill Keller, wondered aloud in the Times magazine if Twitter was making us stupid, Ms. Abramson said that the real question was whether or not to break news on Twitter without a story to link to. Some of her political reporters wanted to “issue an edict” against it, but she’s not ideological about it. She’d seen on the campaign trail that Twitter was a “revolution” for news gathering. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 9/09/11 10:25am

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Departing CNBC Anchor Nicole Lapin Meeting with HLN, Quoting Tolstoy

Since announcing her split with CNBC yesterday, business anchor (and, yes, Media Power Bachelorette) Nicole Lapin has been meeting with CNN’s HLN and the luxury lifestyle publisher The Robb Report, according to a source familiar with the activities of her new production company, Nothing But Gold.

Ms. Lapin is flirting with outlets for the new shows she’ll be producing. She’s no stranger to HLN; she regularly made appearances on the network as a CNN Live anchor, before she hopped to CNBC in January 2010.

In the mean time, she’s appearing on the CW’s Dr. Drew’s Lifechangers and the NBC’s Today show, and working on Decoding The Wall Street Journal, a book that will demystify the financial topics covered in the broadsheet. She’ll also launch a suite of online personal finance and investment tools along the lines of Mint.com.  Read More