Yesterday evening at the Four Seasons, scores of well-dressed Manhattan women gathered to chat and mingle at the fifth annual Dinner & Dis(course) cocktail and dinner party. The event, organized by MediaBistro.com, drew together an array of female leaders in the magazine industry, along with one visibly uncomfortable male, Media Bistro associate editor Read More
On Thursday afternoon, Gail Shister was explaining her recent reassignment at The Philadelphia Inquirer.
After 25 years of writing about television, the Inquirer’s management recently killed her column and reassigned the veteran writer to the metro beat. Thursday marked her fourth day on the new job.
“It’s going to take me months to feel Read More
Laurel Touby has sold her media gossip/bulletin board/media YMCA superstructre for a lot of money.
Drumroll: $23 million.
Here's the Times lead, which Ms. Touby posted to her own Web site just as the only people likely to be interested were trying to figure out whether Rupert Murdoch was going to get away with buying Read More
Correction to items written today by Dylan Stableford on Mediabistro’s ‘Fishbowlny’, an oddly named New York media blog.
1. Is Page A2 of the New York Times really that funny?, Dylan asked of the Times‘ advertisement of a chuckling fellow holding open the paper. Caption: “Darfur? BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!”
Actually, A2 carries the Read More
Former Gawker editor Jesse Oxfeld will soon head to New York magazine. He will be a senior editor for the magazine’s website. Oxfeld confirmed that his start date is August 7.
“I’m hugely excited for it,” said Oxfeld by phone today. “That’s not spin or a line. It’s a magazine that I’ve always wanted to Read More
Here, kitty. Good dog.
Did you hear the one about CIA tracking Osama Bin Laden in rural China using computer-enhanced satellite photos and technology like you might’ve seen on Murder, She Wrote? Oh, and that they shit their pants when they saw the photos?
If you read the Verdad (“true”) issue of Vice, Read More
