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Newsweek Is Crowdsourcing Baby Names

​In a sign of the times, Newsweek is using Twitter as a handy resource for...baby names! Particularly, baby names for their deputy managing editor, Paula Szuchman, who is expecting a girl rather soonish.

Nafissatou Diallo, Dominique Strauss-Kahn's Accuser, Has Granted Interviews to ABC, Newsweek

NewsweekThis week's Newsweek cover.​Dominique Strauss-Kahn's accuser has emerged from anonymity and granted interviews to ABC and Newsweek; she is pictured and named in both. Her name is Nafissatou Diallo, she is 32, and she moved to the U.S. from Guinea in 2003. According to the Newsweek piec ... More >>

Princess Diana Covers Newsweek Because Tina Brown Said So; David Carr Pisses Off America

​The newish editor-in-chief of Newsweek is the very famous and talented Tina Brown, who took over when her floundering web project The Daily Beast partnered with the floundering newsweekly. During her editorship, Brown famously made both Vanity Fair and the New Yorker sharper and flashier, and ... More >>

The Best Brief Quotes From the Same Old Future of Media Panel

Esther Zuckerman ​Today was I Want Media's vaguely titled panel "The Future of Media: 2011," part of the ongoing Internet Week. While most of the discussion was same old, same old (Times digital subscriptions, Gawker redesign, Daily Beast-Newsweek merger), there was a mostly energetic group o ... More >>

Amber Lynn Costello, New York Serial Killer Victim, Was Targeted by Erotic Message Board

​Members of the LongIslandErotic.com sex forum were none too pleased last year with Amber Lynn Costello, a woman who advertised herself as a prostitute on Craigslist and has been since found dead among ten other bodies in the Gilgo Beach and Jones Beach area of Long Island. The New York Daily ... More >>

Sidney Harman Dead at 92: Does His Politician Wife Own Newsweek Now?

​Sidney Harman, the audio equipment billionaire, philanthropist and Executive Chairman of Newsweek since purchasing the struggling weekly magazine about six months ago, died on Tuesday after a brief fight with acute myeloid leukemia, his family announced today in a brief statement. He was 92. ... More >>

Huffington Post Hit With $105 Million Lawsuit By 9,000 Angry Unpaid Bloggers

​In its intermittent battles with unpaid writers, The Huffington Post and its (often reluctant) defenders have trotted out a number of arguments, including most commonly the assertion that the bloggers write without compensation for attention, and most like it just fine that way. Others have a ... More >>

Gaddafi's 'Voluptuous Blonde' Nurse: He's No Berlusconi

​Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi keeps a fleet of personal nurses sometimes referred to as his "harem." As his country comes under attack from dissenting protesters and allied forces including the United States, Gaddafi has lost a few of his closest allies, namely the medical ones, with Oksana ... More >>

New Newsweek Discussion Same as the Old Newsweek Discussion: Lots of Dentist Jokes!

​Today is the day: the first issue of the new Newsweek is for sale, redesigned under editor-in-chief Tina Brown, whose website The Daily Beast paired off with the struggling weekly magazine after billionaire Sidney Harman bought it for $1. The issue has Hillary Clinton on the cover, just like ... More >>

Tina Brown Excites Staff With Redesign, Still Riding New Newsweek Hype Wave

​If there's one word to describe the media news narrative so far in 2011, it's probably "reinvention," or something like it, what with all of the relaunches, redesigns and restructuring, from AOL and the Huffington Post to Gawker, the New York Times (plus Magazine), New York Observer and Tina ... More >>

Dan Sinker, Founder of Punk Planet, Was @MayorEmanuel Twitter; Andrew Sullivan Leaving The Atlantic For Tina Brown

via Daniel O'Neal​Just about everyone on the internet (including us) has already praised the Twitter account @MayorEmanuel, which ended its journey when the real Emanuel won last week's election for Chicago mayor. That fanfare makes today's victory lap and collective celebration entertaining o ... More >>

Newsweek Hit With Buyouts in the Wake of Tina Brown and The Daily Beast Takeover

​Newsweek, the long-suffering magazine, was purchased by audio equipment billionaire Sidney Harmon way back in mid-2010 and hobbled on, losing employees along the way, but impressively still managing to put out a product every seven days. Then, after months of rumor, Tina Brown came along, joi ... More >>

Nick Summers Out at New York Observer, Returning to Newsweek For Tina Brown

​Just one big, local item on this slushy Friday for the reincarnated Press Clips column: New York Observer media reporter Nick Summers, on the job less than three months after the departure of John Koblin, is returning to Newsweek, where he worked as a reporter until October 29. While at the O ... More >>

Newsweek's Julian Assange Christmas Photos Are Really Quite Magical

One of the many faces of possibly being extradited, via Robert King/Newsweek​Did anyone ever watch the sentimental, autobiographical Truman Capote short called "A Christmas Memory"? In it, an orphaned boy lives with a group of elderly relatives, one of whom is his best friend, an eccentric, ch ... More >>

Who is the Media Person of the Year? (or "This Discussion Panel is On Fire, A Play in One Act.")

​At 12PM today at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute -- less than a block away from the Village Voice offices -- a panel discussion sponsored by I Want Media convened to discuss their 9th Media Person of the Year award. The panel -- featuring the New York Times' David Carr, Mediaite's ... More >>

Press Clips: There's Room for Everyone on Brett Favre's Penis, But Not the NY Observer's Media Beat

​The New York Observer news can't stop, won't stop. The New York Times and David Carr discover The Joy of Cock-ing. The Daily Beast/Newsweek honeymoon is over before it starts. Vogue strikes a nerdy pose. Press Clips, Day 13, Happy Monday Hour edition,, right here.

Newsweek Loses Howard Fineman to Huffington Post, Eyeing Daily Beast Deal?

​The Times blog MediaDecoder comes with a Sunday afternoon scoop, announcing the departure of another brand-defining Newsweek veteran, as Howard Fineman has packed his bags and is moving to the internet. Fineman follows editor-in-chief Jon Meacham, big fish Fareed Zakaria, Tumblr guru Mark Coa ... More >>

Newsweek: "The Best and Fastest-Growing Newsmagazine in America"

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 23, 1970, Vol. XV, No. 17 Inside Newsweek: Separating Reporters From Responsibility by Paul Cowan and Jack Newfield Newsweek is the best and fastest-growing newsmagazine in America. It has more credibility with the young than Tim ... More >>

Going, Going, Gone: Newsweek Sold/Unloaded by Washington Post Co.

​Well, at least it wasn't Carlos Slim. Or the Power Rangers Hyper-Zionist Guy. Or any of the other hysterical characters who'd lined up to buy Newsweek, which has now been sold to audio equipment guy Sidney Harman, reported AdAge "according to people familiar with the deal," which PaidContent ... More >>

Newsweek Editor-in-Chief Jon Meacham Reportedly Out, Newsweek-C.I.A. Conspiracy Theory Reportedly In

​Keith Kelly reports in the New York Post, like, a few minutes ago that Newsweek editor-in-chief Jon Meacham is supposedly out once the magazine's sale to Sidney Harmon is complete. Politico's Mike Allen just reported what's all but a confirmation. And Michael Calderone of Yahoo just Tweeted o ... More >>

Media Moves: Newsweek's Secret Weapon Mark Coatney Leaves for Tumblr, Tumblr Now Responsible for Downfall of Newsweek?

​Keep your blogs close, and your bloggers closer, apparently. The Washington Post-owned and recently beleaguered and now for sale news weekly Newsweek just lost a very important component in one single media move: Mark Coatney. Who's going to go work for Tumblr.

Newsweek Pins Hope to Saint Sarah Palin

​The latest Newsweek cover story thesis is a broad, if not altogether unprovable one, but if we've learned anything from the Political Playbook of Sarah Palin, it's that the image is what's important. "To white evangelical women, Sarah Palin is a modern-day prophet, preaching God, flag, and fa ... More >>

Just How Inane Was This Weekend in Washington D.C.? Unbelievably So!

Political Powerhouses Jessica Simpson and Jimmy Fallon​No one with any sense of perspective believes that Real America -- most of the nation, fly-over country, everywhere but the coastal cities, whatever you want to call it -- gives a quarter of a shit about the White House Correspondents Dinner. ... More >>

A Persecution of Phonies: Steve Jobs, Philip Roth, John Grisham

​What do the disembodied voices of sexxytime Jewish Guilt-lit author Philip Roth, Apple brain Steve Jobs, and southern lawyer-lit machine John Grisham have in common?

BlogBeat: Denton's High Marks, Newsweek's Not-So-Secret Weapon, New Hires at Village Voice and Paris Review

​Another Monday, another BlogBeat column. Hopefully, unlike last week's column, this one won't cost us $20,000 a year in advertising money. A former employment situation with Nick Denton and Gawker is assessed, the face behind Newsweek's newest weapon talks, and new hires emerge at the Paris R ... More >>

Erick Erickson, Extremely Rightwing Guy, Liberal Media's 10,000th Conservative Hire

​The liberal media have done it again! They are advancing the Obama socialist agenda by hiring Erick Erickson, an author from the rightwing website RedState, as a commentator on CNN, aka the Clinton News Network. It is not immediately clear how this advances the liberal agenda, but you can be ... More >>

Esquire Responds to the Firestorm of Criticism Surrounding Their Jay-Z Profile

​You remember this profile--the one that described Jay-Z as "old-school double-dark-chocolate-chunk black"? The one that bowed down before the altar of Steve Stoute, of all people, and more or less claimed that Jay's fans cower in the closet, hiding from the overwhelming evidence that the rapp ... More >>

Food Network Fans Start a Facebook Page; A Vegetarian Author Gets Meaty

​Mollie Katzen, author of vegetarian bibles The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest, started eating meat again recently, and so has included several recipes in her latest cookbook for vegetarians that incorporate meat. [Newsweek] Muslim immigrants who own small businesses lik ... More >>

An Early Look at Banh Mi Zon in the East Village

Banh mi #1: Pork roll, shredded pork, liver pate, and the fixings​ As the journalism business flounders, the banh mi trade booms--no one knows this better than Tai Dang, who was reportedly fired from his job as a photographer for Newsweek, and decided to return to his native Saigon to learn to ... More >>

Outrage Du Jour: Sarah Palin in Shorts

​Newsweek has on its cover a picture of Sarah Palin in shorts from her Runners' World shoot, which Sarah Palin herself has denounced as "sexist." For a moment we thought this was a Carrie Prejean thing, but apparently Palin knew Runners World would publish photos of her in shorts, and she obje ... More >>

Quick Hits

Weird Al and a team of experts provide a brief history of autotune. (h/t Joe My God.) Folks outraged at Palin in shorts on a Newsweek cover have resorted to their greatest weapon -- Photoshop! This one is our favorite. A Citizens Union report says that in the past 10 years, 14 state legislator ... More >>

Nora Ephron Dishes More on Her Eating Habits; Starbucks Goes Lean

​Everyone's talking to Nora Ephron this week, including Newsweek. The Julie & Julia director drops several new nuggets of culinary information about herself: "I'm a pretty careful eater but I do love a good corn chip, I really do." [Newsweek] Life as a competitive eater isn't as glamorous as ... More >>

Amok Time: Star Trek Provokes Political Gibberish

Oh boy, the new Star Trek movie is here! Can we just go to the theater and forget about mundane crap like politics? Fat chance. This is 2009, baby -- everything is politics. Newsweek started the ball rolling by announcing, "Spock's cool, analytical nature feels more fascinating and topical than e ... More >>

Second New, Free Bob Dylan MP3, A Phrase We're Getting Used to Typing: "I Feel A Change Coming On"

Newsweek, of all cultural edifices, is the sole US possessor of the streaming audio to the title track of Bob Dylan's new album I Feel A Change Coming On--until tomorrow, anyway, when it hits the man's own website. The Times Online, overseas, pairs their copy of the mp3 with an inspired interview ... More >>

On the Sonic Youth Preview of The Eternal, In Which Kim Gordon Says the Word "Orgasm"

Andrew KesinDespite the headline, I will not make a phone-sex joke here First, let me restate the utter confusion experienced this morning when the official Sonic Youth Twitter, a hilarious thing in and of itself, alerted the world to a new "audio sample" of the band's upcoming Matador release The ... More >>

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Chads Into Confetti: A Great Day for America

Dubya's Inauguration

The Interpreter

The Rise of Fareed Zakaria: Muslim, Heartthrob, Super-Pundit

Extinguished Journalist

The story behind Ed Klein, author of the latest Hillary-bashing tome

Show of Farce

The press digs itself into holes; the government covers up its own errors—the system at work

Morning Report 5/16/05
Newsweek, Flushed With Embarrassment, Pens 'Dear John' Note

Down by Law

Darn, I Forgot to Have Babies!

Stem Cells, HBO, and Passing Buses Fuel a Fertility Panic

Chads Into Confetti

A Great Day for America

Sports

Noodle Diplomacy

Hiring Squad

Whose 'Talking'?

Drudgement Day

Drudge Match