The New Orleans Times Picayune won praise by battling crippling conditions to cover the horrors of Hurricane Katrina. But the challenge and glory of meeting deadline under assault from a hurricane is not just for respectable broadsheets: Last week, Hurricane Wilma slammed into the home of American Media in Boca Raton, home of The Weekly Read More
On Dec. 11, final bids in the sale of New York magazine are due, according to sources familiar with the bidding process. The magazine’s corporate parent, Primedia, is so hopeful that a new owner will be found in time for Christmasthat they’ve already excised New York from their own balance sheets as a “discontinued business.” Read More
It wasn’t long ago that David Pecker, the 51-year-old who was catapulted to national attention when the Boca Raton, Fla., offices of his tabloid empire, American Media Inc., was targeted for an anthrax attack in 2001, found himself trying to persuade Columbia University students to work for him in a recruiting jag.
After one young Read More
Michael Hirschorn and Kurt Andersen are beginning to put a staff together for their on-line media and entertainment industry magazine. Early hires include Craig Marks, who was executive editor of Spin magazine under Mr. Hirschorn and who will direct music industry coverage after his current gig at Rolling Stone runs out, and Lorne Manly, a Read More
On July 9, The New Yorker received, via fax, “what looked like a press release from Newsweek.com” announcing the death of the Nobel Prize-winning Colombian novelist Gabriel García Márquez. It was a hoax. It nearly worked, sending New Yorker staff members into a flurry of phone calls.
“It was Friday, when the magazine closes,” said Read More
Hachette Filipacchi Magazines chief executive David Pecker, notorious for his hellbent quest to make Hachette magazines spend less and make more, announced on Feb. 16 that he was resigning to run a journalistic operation where that doesn’t matter so much: American Media Inc., publisher of such supermarket tabloids as The National Enquirer , Star and Read More
After the first three ad-larded and buzz-inflamed issues, David Pecker, the chief executive of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, was expecting great things from George magazine. Which is to say, things that make money. “If everything is going the way it goes now, we are looking to break even in year three,” he told The New York Read More
