By John Koblin 3/17/09 1:46pm

Jim Kelly on Time Inc.’s Future (And His Own)

The Observer met up with outgoing Time Inc. managing editor Jim Kelly yesterday morning to talk about the future. We had breakfast in a second floor dining room in the Time Inc. building that overlooked Sixth Avenue. We put on our tape recorder and let Mr. Kelly, who spent 31 years at Time Inc, including Read More

By Matt Haber 2/25/09 9:54pm

Time Machine: How Did It Come to This?

It’s possible to begin the story of the problem Walter Isaacson has turned into Topic A via his Time Magazine cover story with Mr. Isaacson himself.

The first time Josh Quittner, an editor-at-large at Time met Mr. Isaacson, who, at the time, was Time magazine’s new media editor, Mr. Isaacson was on Read More

By Matt Haber, Gillian Reagan and Doree Shafrir 2/25/09 1:16am

Man Bites Blog: Hey, You Media Wimps! If You Want to Save Newspapers, Learn to Love Your iPhones, Then Go Join Facebook

A democracy cannot function without a free press.

O.K., we know that, and you probably can’t see another word about it. The point of what follows is practical. We’re in this unbelievable business morass, an indescribable battlefield. How do we get out of it?

Contributing to this catastrophe has been newspapers’ stubborn refusal Read More

By Felix Gillette 4/25/07 9:33pm

Tonight: Buying the War, 9 P.M., PBS

In the fall of 2002, during the run up to the war in Iraq, Oprah Winfrey devoted a portion of one of her shows to answering a pressing international question. Do the Iraqi people want America to liberate them from Saddam Hussein?

Ms. Winfrey posed the question to Entifadh Qanbar, a spokesperson for the Iraqi Read More

By Stephen Amidon 4/16/07 12:00am

Einstein Squared in Relative Bios

Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, 675 pages, $32.

In early 1931, Albert Einstein paid a visit to California that confirmed his status as a global celebrity. After being serenaded by 500 local girls upon his arrival in San Diego, he attended the Rose Bowl parade and visited Hollywood studios, Read More