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Generation Expat

Gawker · 02/26/03 12:50PM

Generation Expat returns. The new editor of The New York Press is one of those college grads who went to Prague after the Velvet Revolution, played at being a writer, and never came back. The LA Examiner, Richard Riordan's new weekly newspaper, is also staffed up with veterans from eastern Europe. Expect articles about the backwardness of American cellphones.
A Prague Perspective for a New York Newsroom [NYT]

Life imitates art

Gawker · 01/31/03 10:26AM

We had a little joke a couple of weeks ago about San Francisco gossip columnists writing pieces on Craig Newmark, the founder of Craig's List. So I nearly spewed my 10 AM martini all over my laptop when I saw this line in an article about Richard Riordan's new paper, the LA Examiner: