The Times‘s Joe Nocera has finally gotten his chance to shine during the current News of the World scandal, intoning last week that Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal had been characterized by lack of ethics and “weirdly, sometimes surprisingly unsophisticated coverage of business” and going yet further today. “There is something undeniably rich about Read More
Yesterday, the Real Estate Desk took issue with Times columnist Joe Nocera’s Saturday column about finances (or, in Mr. Nocera’s opinion, apparent lack thereof) at ground zero. Turns out we weren’t the only ones. Douglas Durst, who took a stake in the project in July, just emailed over his own frustrations, chiefly with Read More
It has been a banner year for 1 World Trade Center. Now that construction has risen above street level and continues ever higher at a brisk clip, all the questions and complaints about the nine years it has taken to reach this point have seemingly evaporated. Things are so good, the Port Authority has Read More
At today’s Newhouse panel at the Plaza, moderator Ken Auletta asked all three Condé Nast editors on the dais—Vogue‘s Anna Wintour, Vanity Fair‘s Graydon Carter, The New Yorker‘s David Remnick—how they felt about the future of magazines. Would the crisis that’s currently afflicting the newspaper industry take its toll on magazines?
After initially turning down his offer and sending their book proposal out to other publishers in hopes of getting a higher advance, Joe Nocera and Bethany McLean—of The New York Times and Vanity Fair, respectively—have agreed to write their account of the crisis on Wall Street for Adrian Zackheim at Portfolio, the business imprint of Read More
Is it time yet to start pulling together books about last week’s catastrophe on Wall Street? Publishers are uneasy about making plans too soon, but the city’s finest financial journalists—and their literary agents—are eager to get moving.
“There are probably two dozen writers in search of a book, but if you Read More
