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GuestofaGuest.com Wins ‘Most Confusing Coverage of Occupy Wall Street’ Award

GuestofaGuest.com, Rachelle Hruska‘s New York social diary, doesn’t usually cover grimy protesters down at Zuccotti Park. (Your much more likely to read about those parties thrown by the 1% of banker/investor types Occupy Wall Street is protesting.)

But this morning’s face-off with the police was a New York City event – if not a fashionable one, an event nonetheless – and GuestofaGuest dedicated a portion of its site to the activity. (They even spent an entire section of their slideshow quoting from New York Observer senior editor Foster Kamer‘s Twitter.) We just are wondering if what they went with was really the best choice for a title: Read More

Media Wars

Departures at Daily News; Healy, Goldschlag Out

Orla Healy, longtime features editor at the New York Daily News, called an early meeting today and asked that “more people than usual attend,” “We hear he’s been ‘keeping his cards close to the vest’ up until now, and this probably signals that he’s ready to play a hand or two,” Rovzar writes. “Or at Read More

Un-Gawkering Gawker

“Ah, this is going to be fun,” posted Nick Denton when Cityfile went live in 2008.

Among the information contained in the site’s 2,000-plus profiles: the Gawker czar’s own middle name—“Guido.”

He was duly impressed. And he seems not to have forgotten.

Cityfile went from fun Web diversion to serious Read More