Despite all the speculation that Sept. 11 would awaken today’s
magazine editors from their dreamy haze of celebrity puffery and smiley service
writing, when the industry convenes at the Waldorf-Astoria on May 1 to present
the National Magazine Awards, the winners will be drawn from a list of
finalists in which reporting on terrorism or Read More
Remember the 25-year-old pampered superstar employee? Fair-cheeked, witty and well-educated, these workplace Mariahs were coveted by New York employers, who lavished them with chubby salaries, titles and perks. The kids worked long hours, but they also got to wear Radiohead T-shirts to client meetings and play Nerf golf in the corridors, and they never, ever Read More
It was always about us. From the beginning-which is, as with all things these days, Sept. 11-print media was in a self-reflective mood. Once the dailies sorted out the news, magazines like The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine were filled with personal narratives-frequently, it seemed, from rooftops in Brooklyn, whether it was Read More
What do you get when you combine a reporter for the country’s most powerful newspaper with a city known more for glitz and glamour than substance and civility? In the case of Todd Purdum, the Los Angeles bureau chief for The New York Times, you get a man whose professional courtesies have clearly taken a Read More
When Brill’s Content moves out of the dowdy offices at 521 Fifth Avenue it’s been in since the magazine started last year and into new space this winter, there will be extra room for a new venture that’s tentatively being called Planet Content. It’s Steve Brill’s update on the Amazon.com idea, the thing that will Read More
