Big Heart

You kind of have to like the Daily News’s “Big Town, Big Heart” “Big Heart, Big City” feature, if only as a form of moral rehab for reporters.

And it’s edited by my old friend (so to speak) Dawn Eden, the only person ever fired from the New York Post for being too right-wing. (Here’s Read More

Scooping Eden

Over at Dawn Patrol, Dawn Eden’s on-hiatus-’til-it’s-not blog, she’s looking for a few good Catholic school veterans.

Why, you ask? For the next edition of Blog On!, her Wednesday column in the Daily News. The upcoming edition will feature insights from former Catholic school students, who will weigh on a current article Read More

Separated at Birth

Only a certain segment of The Politicker’s readership will appreciate this (OK, one person. She knows who she is.), but FishbowlNY has found eerie parallels between Times lightning-rod Judy Miller and Daily News lighting-rod-to-be Dawn Eden.

(via Gawker)

Dawn Eden, Continued

We took some heat over the weekend for questioning the wisdom of the Daily News in giving Dawn Eden a column. Her colleague Derek Rose wrote that we want to blacklist social conservatives. Others thought we were being intolerant of her faith. And somebody suggested that maybe we should let her write a Read More

Dawn Patrol Patrol

The Daily News‘s running identity crisis is one of the best stories in town, and while we’re not exactly sure what to make of this post on Dawn Eden’s blog, we suspect it’ll advance that story:

“Looks like the big news that I promised a while back is finally coming to pass. It Read More

Times Iraq Flak: Feuer’s War Tale, Marital E-Mails

There are narrow-interest memoirs, and then there are very-narrow-interest memoirs. In June, Basic Books plans to release New York Times metro reporter Alan Feuer’s account of his brief career as a war correspondent, Over There: From the Bronx to Baghdad: Two Months in the Life of a Reluctant Reporter.

The two-month figure is misleading; Mr. Read More