The wave of layoffs sweeping across the newsrooms of Village Voice Media, America’s largest chain of alt-weeklies, finally reached New York last week.
Although some speculated the Arizona-based media company formerly known as New Times would spare its flagship brand and new namesake, it wasn’t to be: Last week, The Village Voice laid off Read More
If there is one hire that signifies the changing of the guard moment we’re witnessing in the New York media scene, I’d argue it’s the Village Voice‘s hiring of Harry Siegel, which they announced yesterday afternoon.
Siegel will be their new city columnist and is taking over the space filled, admirably, by Read More
City council candidates answer questions about police brutality (bad), affordable housing (more, more) and Iraq (boo!).
Eliot Spitzer created the new position of Education Czar.
The Daily News’ publisher is pissed off about getting calls on his cell phone about Rudy Giuliani.
Harry Siegel explores a Libertarian traffic plan. (Insert joke Read More
When State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sat down to breakfast with storied financial consultant Felix G. Rohatyn at the Regency this January, he was so eager to pick his guest’s brain—and so intensely solicitous—that he barely had time to touch the food on his plate.
He needn’t have worried.
“I said to him, ‘Look, you Read More
When State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sat down to breakfast with storied financial consultant Felix G. Rohatyn at the Regency this January, he was so eager to pick his guest’s brain—and so intensely solicitous—that he barely had time to touch the food on his plate.
He needn’t have worried.
“I said to him, ‘Look, Read More
So my old employer, The New York Sun, has stolen away Politicker contributor and former New York Press reporter Azi Paybarah.
My only consolation is that I’ve obtained a copy of the memo from Sun managing editor Ira Stoll:
From: Ira StollSent: Monday, March 13, 2006 2:30 PM
Subject: New employee
I’m Read More
So Tom Suozzi is starting to look like that rare species, an actual conservative Democrat. Not sure how this gets him many votes in a Democratic Primary, but it could make the substance interesting.
His early policy stuff — abstinence, no new taxes — has slanted that way, as have his hires. First there Read More
The newspapers who haven’t published those controversial Danish cartoons typically cite appropriateness and editorial judgement. Only a few, notably the Boston Phoenix, have added the obvious: Fear of violent retaliation is a consideration — and not, as John Podhoretz notes, an illegitmate one, as long as you’re honest about it.
The editorial staff of the alternative weekly New York Press walked out today, en masse, after the paper’s publishers backed down from printing the Danish cartoons that have become the center of a global free-speech fight.
Editor-in-Chief Harry Siegel emails, on behalf of the editorial staff:
New York Press, like so many other publications, Read More
New York Press editors resigned en masse today in a dispute with top management over reproducing the riot-linked Danish Mohmammed cartoons. Editor in chief Harry Siegel’s explanation follows:
New York Press, like so many other publications, has suborned its own professed principles. For all the talk of freedom of speech, only the New York Read More
