Stephanie Clifford, a New York Times reporter who is 36 years old, has just received a seven-figure book deal for her first novel. It's already been optioned for a movie as well.

Abruptly deposed former New York Times editor Jill Abramson is teaming up with Steven Brill to start a publication that has **one million dollars** to give to writers just like you in the coming year alone. How can you get your piece?

Omniscient media insider Michael Wolff writes about a Manhattan power lunch sighting: "Recently, the very familiar face I couldn't quite place turned out to be Oprah." It's never been easier to be a media insider.

Vice Media boss and enthusiastic brand ambassador Shane Smith yesterday publicly derided the "sour grapes" of also-ran website Gawker.com, declaring that his company's average salary is very high. Let's explore that further.

Peggy Noonan was friends with Oscar de la Renta. Were you? Pity. A fine man. A fine, gentle, and wise man. A Reagan, of the world of drapery. Why can't you, the childish majority, be like him?

It wasn't that long ago when Crossfire, CNN's goofy establishment shoutfest, was considered a serious detriment to journalism. Well, it took care of itself. The show is being canceled (again).

"Hot celesbians are everywhere you look," the New York Post reports today. Look at the ladies in those pictures—they're more than friends. They do it. Photographs of various lesbian couples available now—only in the New York Post. [Pic via]

Breathy Reaganite Peggy Noonan is more than a doddering captive of her own apartment, peeking around corners for imaginary spirits that haunt her. She is also an expert on infectious disease screening processes. And a land, that we call, America.

What happens when you combine the editorial sensibility of Upworthy with the world's most powerful corporations and filter it all through Vice's ad agency? Collectively.org, a new site that will save the earth. Cynical? Stop being part of the problem.

At most media organizations, there's a "Chinese wall" between editorial and advertising operations—each department operating independently of one another. At Vice Media—marketing shop first, editorial brand second—that's not quite how it works, according to a series of emails published to Twitter by recently departed editor Charles Davis.

According to an Associated Press report, Ferguson, Mo., officials are apparently using exorbitant fees to discourage news organizations from requesting documents through the state's freedom-of-information Sunshine Law.

I bet thinking up two new column topics every single week is pretty hard, after a while.

Many media outlets have style guides, which governs all matters related to writing style. We got a copy of Vice's style guide. Here it is.

The Hollywood Reporter's fawning new profile of CBS boss Les Moonves—one of the media's most overpaid CEOs—reminds us that his daughter Sara is an editor at Vogue, and you're not.

The Wire, formerly known at The Atlantic Wire, is shutting down, according to an internal memo obtained by Gawker. The breaking news and culture site will be folded into the main site of The Atlantic magazine.

The Newspaper Guild, a union that represents hundreds of editorial employees at Time Inc., says that contract negotiations with the company have broken down after the company stood firm on its demands for the right to outsource union jobs.

Today The Advocate ranked The 50 Most Influential LGBT People in Media. Be sure to note the magazine’s disclaimer: “Only those media figures who are publicly out are included.”

What this nation needs is a pair of overcompensated white male centrists who will bring us more horse race-style political journalism.

Fading magazine empire Time Inc. is currently trying to negotiate a new contract with the Newspaper Guild, a union that represents several hundred of the company's editorial employees. Time Inc. would like the right to eliminate most of their jobs.

In May, The Huffington Post announced that 29-year-old managing editor Jimmy Soni would step down to focus on launching the progressive website’s India edition in New Delhi. As of last month, however, he was no longer employed by the company. What happened?