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By Steve Huff 2/04/12 3:42pm

Courtney Love Contains Multitudes: One Woman, Two Dueling Twitter Accounts

In addition to her @Courtney Twitter account, sometimes a source of entertainment, consternation and lawsuits, kaleidoscopic rock queen Courtney Love has a second, private and much more personal account on the microblogging site: @Cbabymichelle. “Personal” as in Cbabymichelle is actually written by Ms. Love and not an assistant. According to former Radar Magazine chief and current Fix-meister Maer Roshan‘s new eBook about Ms. Love, Courtney Comes Clean: The High Life and Dark Depths of Music’s Most Controversial Icon, Ms. Love has used the lesser-known account to have barbarically yawping dialogues with her public persona, one online voice acting as a PR-friendly saint to Cbabymichelle’s heckling sinner. Mr. Roshan writes: Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 4:41pm

off the record

Three Editors Depart Details, The Fix Picks Up One

Forget how many trend pieces it takes to make a genre: how many staff departures does it take to make an exodus?

Details entertainment editor David Walters resigned late last week to take a job at The Daily, according to a Conde Nast source. Mr. Walters, formerly of GQ, is the third high-level departure Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 10/05/11 4:37pm

Maer Roshan Raised $2.4 M. for The Fix

Recovery Media, LLC, parent company of Maer Roshan’s The Fix, raised $2.4 million in equity financing, according to an S.E.C. filing.

Named alongside Mr. Roshan are Allison Floam, founder of MicroDialogue, and Paul Allen McCulley, a former managing director at PIMCO, according to CityBiz.

Mr. Roshan, the wunderkind New York and Talk Read More

By Aaron Gell 6/07/11 9:13pm

Media Darling

The Adventures of Maer Roshan, Editorial Boy Wonder

On or around April 5, a group of prominent New Yorkers—including Andre Balazs, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lindsay Lohan and Harvey Weinstein—received a curious group text. Read More

By Nate Freeman 4/25/11 5:53pm

La Vida Loko

The Fix Goes Longform on Four Loko’s Founding Fathers

Months after the beloved caffeine-blasted booze got banned from New York’s bodegas, Phusion Projects is hoping Four Loko can still sell without the kick.

Maer Roshan’s new addiction news site, The Fix, has published a sprawling 5,000-word profile of the parent company that gifted the world with Four Loko. So who are these princes Read More

By Aaron Gell 3/28/11 4:21am

Comebacks

Roshan Redux! Radar Founder Launches Addiction Site

More than two years after bidding farewell to Radar, the magazine he shepherded through…what was it?—19 or 20 separate incarnations and which lives on in name if not in spirit as an awful TMZ manque owned by American Media, Maer Roshan unveiled his latest creation on Monday, a website called The Fix, focused Read More

By John Koblin 8/25/09 11:13pm

Where in the World Is Maer Roshan?

It hardly seems like a year ago, but remember last September? Just after Lehman declared bankruptcy, we dealt with a rapid wave of media closures here in the city: The Sun, 02138 and, for a third time, Radar.

But we didn’t expect that it would take long for Maer Roshan, Radar’s editor, to get Read More

By John Koblin 3/06/09 5:12pm

Gawker Hires John Cook

John Cook, the longtime Radar contributor and the crackerjack TV reporter for the Chicago Tribune, is heading to Gawker. His first day is Monday.

He’ll be covering covering a variety of things: his old beat in television; he’ll respond to the day’s news when he’s got something to say; and he’ll be digging through Read More

By John Koblin 10/31/08 12:02pm

Radar Attracts Media’s Living Dead to Posthumous Party at Citrine

"I basically started Radar because I didn’t want to work at any other magazine," said Maer Roshan, the editor of the recently folded magazine. "And after six years, all of it came down to this."
Mr. Roshan was surveying his party, the night before Halloween, which had become a kind of Night of the Living Read More

By Matt Haber 10/29/08 11:43am

Lineup for October 29, 2008

Felix Gillette talks to MSNBC president Phil Griffin, who says, "A lot of people like to make fun of cable… They think it’s something for people who don’t get news. No. It’s for people who really understand news, want depth and want it from people they connect to."

John Koblin gets the details Read More

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Courtney Love Contains Multitudes: One Woman, Two Dueling Twitter Accounts

Three Editors Depart Details, The Fix Picks Up One

Maer Roshan Raised $2.4 M. for The Fix

The Adventures of Maer Roshan, Editorial Boy Wonder

The Fix Goes Longform on Four Loko’s Founding Fathers

Roshan Redux! Radar Founder Launches Addiction Site

Where in the World Is Maer Roshan?

Gawker Hires John Cook

Radar Attracts Media’s Living Dead to Posthumous Party at Citrine

Lineup for October 29, 2008

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