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Hamilton Nolan · 06/14/10 08:31AMLittle Orphan Annie Loses Newspaper Gig
Jeff Neumann · 05/14/10 05:10AMCops Say They Can No Longer Beat People With Impunity
Ravi Somaiya · 04/17/10 11:10AMTavern on The Green's Withering Future
Joshua David Stein · 05/18/09 01:13PMStarbucks Releases Its Death Grip
Hamilton Nolan · 04/24/09 10:47AMLiz Smith Out at the New York Post
Hamilton Nolan · 02/24/09 04:27PMBill Kristol's Last Column
Pareene · 01/26/09 10:19AMBush's Very Last Friday Night Newsdump
Pareene · 01/16/09 03:09PMGeorge W. Bush Will Be Missed
Pareene · 01/14/09 12:05PMThe Beginning Of The End Of Chimps In Ads
Hamilton Nolan · 11/10/08 05:10PMIs this the end of monkey ads? The nonprofit Ad Council—which makes all those famous public service ads you see everywhere—has agreed not to use any more "great apes" in its ads. No chimpanzees or orangutans! Not only that, but the CEOs of dozens of major advertisers and ad agencies sit on the Ad Council's board, and PETA is promising to urge all of them to stop with the ape ads, too. Kiss your precious CareerBuilder monkeys goodbye!
Len Downie To Leave The 'Washington Post'?
Rebecca · 03/25/08 04:55PM
Shoe leather reporters get your tissues out. There's word that Len Downie, executive editor of the Washington Post, is going to accept a buy-out. Don't let the hairline fool you: He's old. At 65, he's just five years younger than Ben Bradlee was when he retired from the title. He's also just not that into the whole internet thing, and there's some pressure on the business end for an executive editor who knows how to Google. The buyouts don't start until mid-April, but Downie might have to make an announcement to settle the rumors. FishbowlNY is suggesting Jim Brady, the washingtonpost.com editor, as a replacement, which would make sense if the paper wants to be more webby. Other bandied names for the position: New York Times DC chief Dean Baquet, and Marilyn Thompson—who went back to the Post from the Times over the McCain story debacle.
DC's Moonie 'Times' Gets A Little Less Nutty
Pareene · 02/26/08 01:17PMThe Moonie-owned right-wing-allied Washington Times has changed its editor, and now its styleguide. Some of the seriously loaded code languge is no longer the Times standard! So long "homosexual 'marriage'"! Farewell "illegal aliens"! We thought we'd be in the cold ground before the Washington Times recognized the term "moderate." Alas, times change. White supremacist-sympathetic editors-in-chief get ousted. Times newsroom email, via CQ, after the jump.
'WSJ' To Become 'The Midtown Journal'?
Maggie · 01/28/08 01:45PMThere goes the neighborhood. Rupert Murdoch is planning to move his Wall Street Journal newsroom from the financial district where it's lived for over 100 years to News Corp's headquarters on Sixth Avenue. The Midtown Journal just doesn't have quite the same ring, though. We predict singing rumble sequences in the cafeteria between WSJ staffers and their new Fox and New York Post siblings. Manhattan's newspapers have either died or migrated uptown over the century, choking the neighborhood around Rockefeller Center, but the Journal was a holdout of a bygone era. After the jump, a stroll around New York's former press nucleus.
Longtime 'Interview' Editor Ingrid Sischy Out At Magazine
Maggie · 01/10/08 02:45PM
Is this the end of days? We're hearing that Interview editrix Ingrid Sischy left the title yesterday. She was a downtown publishing fixture, if a minor one, known mainly for her famous friends from an earlier New York era, like Robert Mapplethorpe, Calvin Klein, Elton John and the Versaces. True to the mission of the magazine, she interviewed them at length, often at excessive length. More background, after the jump.