By Kat Stoeffel 7:30am

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The Times They Are A-Buzzin’: Jim Roberts and Ben Smith Talk Video Collabo

A media odd couple was formed on Monday, when BuzzFeed and The New York Times announced that they will join forces to cover the Democratic and Republican national conventions in live-streaming video “TimesCasts” on NYTimes.com.

The collaboration, which serves to lend the Times’ growing video department a jolt of buzzy, young talent while cementing BuzzFeed’s nascent journalistic credentials, was born from the Twitter-based mutual admiration of New York Times assistant managing editor Jim Roberts and BuzzFeed editor-in-chief, Ben Smith. The two met IRL when they sat on a panel together during Social Media Week in February.  Read More

By Daniel D'Addario 8/08/11 12:56pm

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Marcus Bachmann (Getty Images)

How To (Maybe!) Hint At Something Untoward, With Ryan Lizza and Marcus Bachmann

Certain rumors about Marcus Bachmann, husband to presidential candidate Michele Bachmann, have not gained much traction in mainstream-press publications’ profiles of Ms. Bachmann, despite the best efforts of Dan Savage, Jon Stewart, et al.

Ryan Lizza’s exceptional New Yorker profile of of Ms. Bachmann, published today, outs Mr. Bachmann–as a confirmed oddball (what Read More

By Leon Neyfakh 11/11/08 8:21pm

The Remaking of Ryan Lizza’s Big Campaign Book 2008

New Yorker Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza finalized an agreement Monday with Vanessa Mobley of the Penguin Press to write a book about President-elect Barack Obama’s first year in office. Mr. Lizza’s contract, worth a sum in the mid-six-figures, was negotiated by his D.C.-based literary agent, Gail Ross. It is, to date, his second book deal, Read More

By Staff 8/08/05 4:30pm

Unmasking Mellman

In the Times today, the Miller campaign debuts another kind of sourcing: fake anonymity. The male source is described as a “senior Miller strategist who also advised John Kerry last year.” Unless they’re being truly generous with the term “advised,” that’s pollster Mark Mellman, who reportedly insisted on anonymity “because he did not Read More

By Tom Scocca 3/14/05 12:00am

Off the Record

One tale of triumphant inheritance gave way to another Tuesday afternoon, as The Lion King yielded the stage of the Disney Theater to Arthur Sulzberger Jr.’s State of The New York Times presentation. Bongo drums, a witness reported, were faintly visible in the wings as Mr. Sulzberger-sans necktie, in a navy suit and blue shirt-delivered Read More