By Daniel D'Addario 10/23/12 8:00am

The Eight-Day Week

Connie Chung (Getty Images)

To Do Tuesday: Baking for Barack

After getting us in touch with our inner child earlier in the week with her confidence-booster, head-banded socialite Arden Wohl’s treating us to a cupcake—or five! Tonight, she hosts a fund-raiser for Barack Obama with vegan cupcakes she baked herself at Little Cupcake Bakeshop. Hope they pair well with cocktails … Meanwhile, Jean and Martin Shafiroff, among others, celebrate the city’s grown-up women at the New York Women’s Foundation 25th Anniversary Celebration, honoring a quarter-century of working to bring women out of poverty. Connie Chung serves Read More

By Bruce Feirstein 4/07/03 12:00am

What I Think I Know: Chung on Al Jazeera; Jennings in Canada

Between the fog of war and the blizzard of media, everybody thinks they know everything, and nobody really knows anything.

What follows here are a dozen crucial developments to monitor in the upcoming weeks:

1) Under the new “Sneering Aliens Act,” Attorney General John Ashcroft reveals that ABC anchorman Peter Jennings has been arrested, Read More

By Jason Gay 10/14/02 12:00am

What Makes Walter Run CNN?

Walter Isaacson has a problem. As chairman and chief executive of CNN, he commands the biggest and most influential news network on the planet, a sprawling entity as vital in Karachi, Pakistan, as it is in his hometown of New Orleans. Mr. Isaacson oversees 4,000 employees and 42 bureaus, 31 of them scattered outside the Read More