Ana Marie Cox, the former editor of Wonkette.com and the author of Dog Days, has signed to be a columnist for Time and Time.com. She will file a weekly column on politics for the Web site and a monthly column in the magazine. Her first deadline is this week; this past Thursday, at the D.C. Read More
“[I]t’s really hard to match you,” eHarmony.com founder Neil Clark Warren tells Atlantic writer Lori Gottlieb in the magazine’s current cover story. “You’re too bright. You’re too thoughtful. The biggest thing you’ve got to do when you’re gifted like you are is to be patient.”
David Bradley, The Atlantic’s owner, appears to be taking that Read More
New York Times editors published reporter James Risen’s December account of National Security Agency wiretapping without having seen the manuscript of Mr. Risen’s book on the same subject, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the events.
Ever since the appearance of Mr. Risen’s Dec. 16 piece, co-written with Eric Lichtblau, rumor and speculation have Read More
New York Times editors published reporter James Risen’s December account of National Security Agency wiretapping without having seen the manuscript of Mr. Risen’s book on the same subject, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the events.
Ever since the appearance of Mr. Risen’s Dec. 16 piece, co-written with Eric Lichtblau, rumor and speculation have Read More
Time staffers are still waiting for the gavel to fall on Time Inc.’s latest round of cost-cutting announced last week.
While Sports Illustrated staffers received a memo announcing the revocation of perks such as catered meetings and (gasp!) business-class air travel, Time staffers haven’t heard anything similar.
“We’ve had some trouble with e-mail,” Read More
A magazine that’s printed on computers is more like a magazine than it is like a computer program. That was the verdict handed down on Dec. 21 by Microsoft and the Washington Post Company, as the software behemoth announced that it was selling its Web-based Slate magazine to the ink-on-paper-ware empire.
The new-media startup that Read More
Martin Dunn had only been on the job for a few hours when the Staten Island Ferry-the vessel on which thousands of New Yorkers travel to and from the island of Manhattan-crashed into a concrete pier at the St. George Terminal on Oct. 15, violently killing 10 people.
For the newly minted editorial director of Read More
Should they stay or should they go?
That’s been the question facing newsrooms around the world for months as they considered their correspondents in Iraq’s targeted capital, Baghdad. And those deliberations reached a fever pitch on March 18, a day after George W. Bush’s 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam Hussein and his stern warning to journalists Read More
The following Off the Record item comes from writer Josh Bernstein, who spent a couple of days at The New York Times on a curious temp assignment:
My knowledge of The New York Times ‘ inner machinations is, at best, minor: I buy the Sunday edition to legitimize loitering at diners.
But on a Read More
So, where’s Joel
Stein? Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Mr. Stein-the yuk-yuk guy at Time magazine whose column once rotated
with Margaret Carlson and Calvin Trillin-has been like a stand-up comic without
a microphone. Though he’s been sent on various assignments, Mr. Stein’s regular
wisecrack-filled column-along with most of the front-of-the-book Notebook
section-has been Read More
