By Kat Stoeffel 9/20/11 9:07pm

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Sasha Frere-Jones Backs Away from Duties at The Daily

Sasha Frere-Jones, The Daily’s bold-face culture editor and New Yorker pop music critic, has relinquished his full-time editing duties at the iPad tabloid, a source familiar with the operations told The Observer.

Mr. Frere-Jones’s deputy, Claire Howorth, formerly of The Daily Beast and Vanity Fair (and powerfully linked to The Daily‘s news editor Mike Nizza), will Read More

By Michael Calderone 2/26/07 12:00am

Post’s Allan Picks Crew for Victory Cruise

Perfection eludes us,” said Col Allan, editor in chief of the New York Post. “That’s the challenge of producing daily newspapers. We’re always trying to make it better.”

Perfection? Half a year ago, Mr. Allan had a less sublime quarry in his sights: the Daily News. But then, after years of slow-closing pursuit, he overtook Read More

By Staff 8/15/05 10:43am

A Good Day for Jesse Angelo

On a day when the Times rewrites our Rupert-and-Hillary romance (two months late, but thanks for the plug!), the Post (whose idea of giving credit to another source is “it emerged”) eschews the meta and puts out a special collectors-edition issue that shows why, love it or hate it, the Post wields outsized Read More

By Sridhar Pappu 12/15/03 12:00am

Power Punk: Jesse Angelo

Scrappy newsman had inside track since kindergarten, almost quits Harvard to work for Rupert, Mom says no! Gets gig anyhow at 27!

It was a Thursday night in June 2001 when New York Post editor in chief Col Allan asked a young editor on his staff to come out for a drink. The next day Read More