Not content dabbling in stunt journalism and celebrity profiles, Joel Stein has decided what he really wants to do is use his writing to make a difference.
Actually, that’s not quite right. He wants to use it to drum up fake controversy, as he admits in his latest Los Angeles Times Read More
This week, the New York City Board of Elections ruled against one major incumbent: The New York Daily News will not get its regular piece of the board’s pre-election public-service advertising.
The board was responding to a protest raised Oct. 19, at its weekly Tuesday meeting, by Thomas Watkins Jr., publisher of the Daily Challenge Read More
Shortly before 10 p.m. on Monday, July 21, staffers at the Daily News , most of whom had left the office for the evening, received a message via e-mail from News editor Ed Kosner announcing his retirement from the position.
As departures go, Mr. Kosner’s seems like children’s hour compared to the weeks-long soul-thrashing that Read More
Wednesday, Sept. 5
Ever since former Time managing editor Walter Isaacson swooped in to save CNN, the question has lingered: When’s Mr. Isaacson going to tap his peppy young protégé, Time columnist Joel Stein, to do his lampshade-on-the-head act on AOL Time Warner TV?
CNN has, in fact, been talking to Mr. Stein for Read More
Chaos theory states that it’s possible for the tiny air disturbance caused by a butterfly flapping its wings in Topeka to cause a tsunami in Tokyo. Could a trifle such as the Calendar Boy page in Vanity Fair change freelance policy for the whole of Time Inc.?
This is how chaos theory works at Read More
