Mortimer Zuckerman

Forbes: Mike Bloomberg Still Has Way More Money Than You Do

Forbes released its 30th annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans yesterday, and there's a 99.9 percent chance that you didn't make the list.Mayor Mike Bloomberg did, though, finishing 10th on the list with a net worth of about $25 billion.But Bloomberg isn't the only person in New York with way ... More >>

Donald Trump Says He Saved the New York Daily News, Claims He's Tight With 'Blacks'

​Our country's current, most fake president candidate, the billionaire Donald Trump, won't shut up. Though the media is mostly playing his games, reporting on all of the dumb shit he says -- with the exception of the New York Observer, but that's complicated -- he also benefits from starting s ... More >>

Cathie Black Gets a Free Pass from Business Pal Mort Zuckerman's Editorial Page

Cathie Black: What will she bling to the job?By Lily Altavena As backlash to Cathie Black's appointment as chancellor of New York City public schools mounts, the mayor remains mum while others question why he chose someone with such a lack of experience in education. The Daily News' editorial boar ... More >>

Harry Wilson Gets Backing By Our Media Overlords

Wilson​All three New York City newspaper owners have endorsed GOP comptroller candidate Harry Wilson, who is also backed by our mogul mayor. The real Gang of Four hasn't caballed like this since the term limits extension of 2008 and the re-election of Bloomberg in 2009. Like term lim ... More >>

Is Rupert Murdoch Playing Defense Against the Eliot Spitzer Comeback Team?

​Saturday at the Tibeca Film Festival, one of the event's most buzzed about features made its debut. After all, there's nothing New Yorkers love more than art about other New Yorkers. And sex. Plus, Rupert Murdoch -- but not together. The as-of-yet untitled and unfinished Eliot Spitzer documen ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg Pained by Obama's Snub: The Transcript

​The Daily News front page today is all about how Mort Zuckerman's friend Mayor Mike Bloomberg is feeling hurt by the White House's failure to give him a heads-up about President Obama's Cooper Union visit to deliver a speech on financial reform. The Voice has obtained an exclusive transcrip ... More >>

Joe Scarborough Goes Crazy for Rudy Giuliani (And We Mean Crazy)

​Too much Starbucks pushed Mornin' Joe Scarborough into a full-throated, looney-tunes, rant this week in defense of our own local heroes Rudy Giuliani and Bernie Kerik. It's been exhilarating to see Rudy back on a national TV tour lately, reminding us what an expert we had in City ... More >>

Jonathan Tasini Carries a Democratic Torch Against Gillibrand

Rebel in a pinstriped suit

"Bloomberg's Galpal" Diana Taylor Isn't Running for Senate, but We Might Be Able to Get Campbell Brown's Husband or Kara DioGuardi's Dad

​Yesterday Diana Taylor, a former state regulator better known in the local press for her relationship with our billionaire mayor, joined the list of local political celebrities being floated for a shot at Kirsten Gillibrand's seat. Today, she dropped off the list. Taylor said in a statement t ... More >>

Mike Bloomberg's Girlfriend Diana Taylor Said (By Bored Press) to Consider Senate Run

​We thought the age of celebrity candidates ended with Jesse Ventura. Then, with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Then, with Al Franken. Then, with Caroline Kennedy, Mort Zuckerman, Larry Kudlow... Oh, who are we kidding, it never ends. Now we hear "multiple sources confirm" that Mike Bloomberg's girlf ... More >>

A Gift Guide for Rupert Murdoch's 79th Birthday: 79 Presents to Give the Chairman

​Happy Birthday, Rupert Murdoch! At the great old age of 79, the media baron's going to have to be gifted well. Who knows how many he has left? It's late in the day and you still haven't gotten him anything, and you don't know what to get him? Funny you should ask. We've got a few decent ideas ... More >>

Harold Ford Jr. Begs Off; Latest Victim of Gillibrand Charm Offensive

​This weekend Kirsten Gillibrand went around Nassau County, letting the folks know about the stimulus dollars that were going to build them a new community center, and drawing praise from local politicians. About the same time, we suppose, Harold Ford was looking at his polling data and maki ... More >>

Mort Zuckerman Welcome to Run for GOP Senate Nod: State Chair

​Several local chairmen of the state Republican Party got together last night and endorsed Bruce Blakeman for the 2010 Senate race. But the state chairman, Ed Cox, says the Party is still open to other contenders -- including Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman. Zuckerman is "very concerned a ... More >>

Mort Zuckerman For Senate? We Can Guess Where That Story is Coming From

​Michael Barbaro and Tim Arango have only shared two bylines in their Times careers. On Saturday, the two reported that Daily News publisher Mort Zuckerman "is considering" a run for Kirsten Gillibrand's U.S. Senate seat. In August 2008, they broke the story that Mike Bloomberg had been hold ... More >>

Zuckerman Unbound! Mort for Senate!

It's hard to believe we could really get this lucky, but if Mort Zuckerman really wants to run for the Clinton/Gillibrand senate seat there's an entire regiment of former Daily News reporters who might well cover the race for free. As one of those who labored in Zuckerman's vineyard, I say: Run Mort ... More >>

After Owner's Death, Some Wonder on Fate of New York; We Don't

​New York magazine lovingly eulogizes its owner and Lazard CEO, Bruce Wasserstein, who died unexpectedly Tuesday of heart trouble at 61. "When he bought the magazine in 2004, some wondered what he wanted with New York," they write. "It turned out that he just wanted the best possible future fo ... More >>

Sports Betting on Newspaper Websites? It Could Happen

​In this week's cover story about the state of local daily newspapers, we mentioned New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman's idea to allow sports gambling on his newspaper's website. In an interview with Forbes business magazine earlier this year, Mort said, "There is something that can be ... More >>

How New York City's Seven Newspapers Are (Nearly) Surviving

Print is undead—and NYC is the only city where you can still read all about it

Bloomberg's Term Limits Scheme

How Mayor Mike gamed the system

Coup in Review: No Session Today; Monserrate Keeps 'Em Guessing

Earlier Pedro Espada said he was goin' into the senate chamber and Malcolm Smith said he was goin' to court. Espada has not, that anyone could see, gone into the chamber, and Smith seems not to have gone to court. There was no senate session today, not even the al fresco one Espada had threatened, b ... More >>

Mayor Vows to Get Homeless Out of Nice Apartments, Into Hellholes Like They Deserve

Yesterday the world learned that some homeless New Yorkers were being housed in luxury condos originally intended for rich folks, sparking outrage among the sort of people who are just miserable when someone else gets over. Today the mayor exploited that sentiment, saying of the mendicants warehouse ... More >>

Pols, Press Party with Sharpton and His Corrupt Network

The governor of New York is having lunch today with a tax dodger who owes the state nearly a million dollars. The mayor is chowing down, too. Tomorrow the vice president will wrap his arms around the same celebrity cheat who stiffed the IRS for nearly $2 million. David Paterson, Mike Bloomberg and ... More >>

MLK Observed

Happy Martin Luther King Day! The New York Times celebrates by profiling Bed-Stuy's Martin Luther King Jr. Place, which "has only a handful of buildings that anybody lives in, a sprawling schoolyard playground and a small city park -- all pavement, no grass to speak of." Also, nearby the Marcy Hou ... More >>

What's Behind Mort Zuckerman's Citigroup Crush?

The Transformation of Mike Bloomberg

How the benevolent billionaire with no political debts ended up owning us all

Wall St., Bloomberg Got You Down? Release Your Inner, Battered Child

Obama's Goal: Peace in the Upper East Side

Dishonorable Non-Mention: Juan Gonzalez and the Daily News' 9/11 Pulitzer

Remember the Strike? Someone Won

Mayor Mouth

Tabloid Bloomy Goes Thuggy, Trades Big Schtick for Big Stick

The 2005 Wacko Awards

With everyone chasing a Bloombucks bonus, only the most craven can win

Paper-Trained? No.

Post and Daily News get serious only in their petty war with each other

NY Mirror

No News Here

How the CBS memos helped re-elect george W. Bush; cataclysm foretold in the Atlantic

Head for the Exits

Unquiet Riot

Media come out slugging after the NBA brawl in Detroit, throw in sucker punches, 'moral' lessons

'Gates of Hell' Now Officially Open

Sweet Smell of Success

'Post' Raking in Still More Readers

The Reflective Rudy

The Ex-Mayor Writes His Own Farewell to Donna

The Reflective Rudy

His Honor Relishes Resurrection, Plots Future Stardom

Big Brother’s ‘Reason’ to Fear

Libertarian Mag Gears Up for Wartime

Trust Fund Trussed?

World Trade Center Lease Deal Could Slash Housing Revenue

Campaign Classics

Tales From the Trail About Green, Zogby, Powers, and Zuckerman

World War Free

It's the 'News,' the 'Post,' and Some Swedish Guys in the First Skirmish of a Global Journalism Battle

Powerful Gay Media

Is 'The Advocate' Getting Savvy or Selling Out?

Jill of All Trades

Die, Yuppie Scam

The 1998 Wacko Awards

No Mort Tomorrows

20 Questions