Peter Orszag, the possibly-bald former White House Budget Director with an attractive woman or two at his side, is the newest Op-Ed columnist at the New York Times. But only once or twice a month. Lazy bum. [NYT]
Democrats allege in a legal filing that, by plugging an Ohio gubernatorial candidate's website in a chyron, Fox News illegally contributed to the Republican's campaign.
Russian police today raided the offices of Moscow's New Times, a rare opposition publication, as part of an "unspecified investigation." The magazine recently reported on corruption scandals. If only bedbugs were the worst things media organizations had to worry about.
In your tripping Thursday media column: Bill Keller hollers back at the WSJ, Sharon Waxman's upset at every little thing, National Journal keeps hiring, and the Deseret News welcomes its future as a Mormon PR operation.
Four years ago, Rupert Murdoch-owned UK tabloid The News of the World got caught hacking the voicemail of "hundreds of celebrities" and other public figures. Now, the full extent of the hacking's coming out—and it's bad. Amazingly dirty, actually!
In your foreboding Wednesday media column: cutbacks small and large at CBS, vague rumors of trouble at Paste Magazine, Rupert Murdoch made more money than you this year, and gossip, considered.
Last night, tween screams filled the air as Justin Bieber, with the angelic voice of "an electrified chipmunk," performed in Madison Square Garden. Elsewhere in New York, hero newsman Pat Kiernan got his Justin Bieber haircut on.
Fresh from a farewell dinner for departing New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt, the paper's standards editor, Phil Corbett, issued a memo to the newsroom yesterday on that perpetually controversial issue: use of anonymous sources. Full memo below.
In an attempt to construct a witty cover, Newsweek seems to claim that Obama isn't president. Jonathan Alter's article explores and debunks the network of conspiracy theories surrounding the president. But the cover lines' kind of affirm one myth. D'oh.
In your to-the-point Tuesday media column: Mike Wise gets suspended, big layoffs at the Deseret News, CBS Evening News is in the dumps, and Nick Sylvester speaks.
Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise pulled a clever stunt yesterday: he put up some fake news on Twitter, to "prove that 'anybody will print anything.'" Actually, he proved it's dumb to assume Mike Wise is a smart, trustworthy journalist.
Conde Nast folded Gourmet magazine last fall; it was brought back in the form of a paltry digital app. Now, the brand's actually coming back in print, "in the form of three newsstand-only editions," including a cookbook. Baby steps. [Folio]
In your wounded Monday media column: prestigious magazines clash over characterizations, Dana Milbank is now more ostensibly respectable, the alt-weekly war in San Fran rages on, and another departure at Forbes.com
Fiendish villains! Lowest of the low! What rogues would dare to kick New York's most respected tabloid sex journalist, Andrea Peyser, out of a golf tournament, simply for a minor breach of security? Tiger Tiger Woods, yall!
