“At the same time, the fees it pays contributors — $100 to $300 per article, according to people familiar with its rates — are considered either a princely sum or meager commission, contingent on the observer’s age and station in the editorial world. ‘I can’t believe they’re paying people so much,’ one web publisher said Read More
Tom McGeveran has been named interim editor of The New York Observer starting June 1. He will be replacing Peter Kaplan, who announced his departure from the paper a little over a month ago.
“I have a lot of confidence in Tom,” said Jared Kushner, the publisher of The Observer. “I’ve worked closely with Read More
After a weeklong stint on this blog last summer, I’m back again.
“Who cares?” I can hear many of you asking, not unreasonably.
After all, it was Ben Smith who built The Politicker into a local phenomenon. It was Tom McGeveran and company who nurtured it over the last few weeks.
My only job, Read More
The Governor’s rather tame vetoes yesterday are expected to snowball into significant ones today. Here’s The Sun on what’s expected:
To the alarm of lawmakers, he’s taking aim at some of their most cherished spending items, like the Senate’s program to give millions of New Yorkers property tax rebate checks. He’s also using the Read MoreThe Politicker has finally been overhauled by a professional designer and I’m now wincing at how clumsy my previous design was. While the main changes to this site are aesthetic (with a few tweaks yet to come) you’ll also see a new search function on the right side of the page. The search function isn’t Read More
