flackery
Undercover Boss: Now Simply Evil
Hamilton Nolan · 03/22/10 10:49AM'Pansexual' Editor Neal Boulton Joins OK! Magazine UPDATE: Not Really
Ravi Somaiya · 03/21/10 12:48PMFlack Slaves Ordered Back to Flack Cave
Hamilton Nolan · 03/19/10 10:17AMLindsay Lohan Too Crazy (Or Broke) Even for Her Flack (Updated)
Ryan Tate · 03/09/10 02:17PMLindsay Lohan is "on hiatus" from her power-publicist Leslie Sloan-Zelnick, reports the website Crushable. So the actress will have to explain suing a taunting milkaholic baby and getting fired from an escort job on her own. She's a very creative communicator! Update: We've been told that Lohan has been on hiatus with her publicist since last summer and Sloane-Zelnick has been typically directing reporters to contact Lohan's lawyer instead.
NYT Hires New Chief Flack
Hamilton Nolan · 03/09/10 12:49PMLongtime NYT Co. PR chief Catherine Mathis left the paper for a less stressful job last August. Now the company has finally replaced her with Bob Christie, from Dow Jones, who is a fairly sane guy in our experience. Also perhaps he brings some scandalous Rupert Murdoch secrets? But probably not. Internal memo below:
News Trusted Slightly More than Blatant Propaganda
Hamilton Nolan · 02/19/10 02:02PMSomebody Fire This Guy, Seriously
Hamilton Nolan · 02/17/10 11:40AMMax Abelson has an exceedingly timely profile of Lucas van Praag (pictured), Goldman Sachs' PR chief—variously described as "debonair," "very Masterpiece Theater," "amazingly brilliant," and "arrogant, slightly pompous, flippant and condescending." Image projected: Haughty, rich asshole. Smart, Goldman. [NYO]