Countdown to Bliss

Michael Kelly and Mary Beth Maioli

Met: Oct. 13, 2005

Engaged: July 3, 2006

Projected Wedding Date: May 12, 2007

After a few months of dating Michael Kelly, Mary Beth Maioli, who is something of an indie-music snob, started a campaign against his David Gray collection. “I have no culture,” conceded Read More

Atlantic Owner Scours Country For Cinder-Editor

“Yesterday, I had drinks with a New York Times fact-checker,” said David Bradley, the multimillionaire owner of The Atlantic.

In April, Mr. Bradley had announced that he would be uprooting the magazine from its ancestral soil in Boston and replanting it in Washington, D.C. By year’s end, The Atlantic is supposed to be on the Read More

Michael Kelly

During the hollow hours after the death in Iraq of Michael Kelly, a Boston reporter got through to me and suggested that the key to Kelly’s editorial success at The Atlantic was his parallel role as a journalist. I asked the reporter to explain. He wondered if what distinguished Kelly’s leadership was his ability to Read More

New Yorker’ s Klein Skips to Time

Joe Klein-the writer made famous when he copped to being Anonymous, author of Primary Colors -is leaving The New Yorker for Time magazine. Mr. Klein’s hiring will be announced on Wednesday, Dec. 4, by Time managing editor Jim Kelly.

Mr. Klein, 56, told Off the Record on Dec. 3 that he will write a weekly Read More

All Attention on New Times Power Center: The 10:30 a.m. Meeting

Since Sept. 11, one of the biggest changes at The New York Times has been the increased role that the paper’s top-level editors have played in the daily editing. While this development was motivated by local and world events, there’s a concern–or at least a curiosity–among certain Times staffers that the paper’s top editors will Read More

Newshounds at City Hall Left With Kibbles ‘n Bits

The big news in Room 9 on May 22 was puppies. After a month of constant and bizarre news cycles, all was quiet in the City Hall press room, save for chatter about Mayor Giuliani’s cuddly photo-op. Mr. Giuliani’s decision to drop out of the Senate race on May 19 meant that the hard-edged political Read More

New Atlantic Guy David Bradley Joins Magazine Big Shots

David Bradley, the new owner of the 142-year-old Atlantic Monthly , is a budding magazine mogul. In 1997, he purchased The National Journal , a Washington, D.C., specialty publication with around 6,500 subscribers paying $1,047 per year, and turned it into a little magazine with buzz. He pulled off this feat simply by throwing big Read More

How Journalism’s New Golden Boy Got Thrown Out Of New Republic

Not long before he was unmasked as something less than an honest journalist, 25-year-old New Republic associate editor Stephen Glass was pitching colleagues on a hoax of talk-show host Jerry Springer. He scripted an elaborate Springer-worthy melodrama–complete with a bisexual love triangle, an attempted murder by rat poisoning and an emotional show-ending marriage proposal–and convinced Read More