By Chris Lehmann 4/11/12 10:16am

Culture Shock

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Quisling Like Me: Imagining Life as Dealb%k’s Kevin Roose Imagining Life as a Billionaire

I’m a financial reporter for a certain paper of record, tasked with monitoring the daily mood swings and professional machinations of the Wall Street overclass. Yet I must periodically affect an air of professional puzzlement—about the masters of the universe who make up my beat, about the larger, destructive drift of the speculative paper economy, and about the best way to justify my glorified courtiership. And like all practiced petty cynics, I need to blunt any chance that my ruminations might create any real moral or cognitive dissonance with an exculpatory mood of ironic detachment.

So on a lark—duly approved by my editors, and subsidized by the discreet providers of luxe personal services, who ache to have their carriage trade identified with the .01 percent—I’ve donned all the fripperies and acquired all the emollients of the ultrarich for a day, as part of my paper’s stupendously tone-deaf and section-long celebration of wealth for wealth’s sake. Read More

By Foster Kamer 1/12/12 5:51pm

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Andrew Ross Sorkin and New York Times Dealbook Writers Plagued by Cloud of Meat Stench

You would think: There you are, you’ve made it to the New York Times. You, with all of your hard-work, talent, and moxie have lead yourself to a place Gay Talese identified—in the title of his book on the place—as The Kingdom. And how majestic is it, this Renzo Piano building. Nothing can stop you now.

Except for the persistent smell of burning animal flesh beginning from the moment you get to work. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 8/29/11 12:47pm

Infighting

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Times Business Editor Larry Ingrassia to Ombudsman Arthur Brisbane: How Closely Do You Read the Times?

Times public editor Arthur Brisbane criticized the Business Day section’s investment in DealBook in his column this week, and business editor Larry Ingrassia shot back in an internal memo intercepted by Romenesko.

DealBook, the Andrew Ross Sorkin-founded Times blog which now claims a few pages in the print section, focuses on reporting deals hours before they would have been announced and chronicling the lives of Wall Street players like a gossip column. It serves the investors’ appetites, not the public interest, according to Mr. Brisbane.

It struck the Times ombudsman as a foolishly pre-2008 editorial strategy, now that macroeconomic issues dominate business headlines, and now that Wall Street is a downgraded player in international economics. Read More

By Nick Summers 12/08/10 2:46am

Media

The Deal on DealBook

In the beginning, DealBook was a newsletter with links to that morning’s Times, and then, when DealBook became a blog, it was a place for the newspaper to compete on news that broke during the day and would be too late for tomorrow’s edition. Now, a re-re-launched third iteration of DealBook has for the past Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/08/10 8:10pm

Redesigns

DealBook’s New Look Up and Running

DealBook, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s finance blog at The New York Times, has a new look — and, it appears, a new spelling. The title now stretched across the site’s banner now reads “DealB%k.”

For some reason, those responsible for the redesign were convinced that a percent symbol’s little circles could make for passable “O” Read More