Tina Brown

Rightbloggers Enter "Conversation" on Jason Collins, Are Pissed No One Wants to Talk to Them

Last week NBA player Jason Collins came out as gay -- spectacularly, in the pages of Sports Illustrated. He did so not because he had been arrested in a men's room or outed by a news site, but because, as he told SI, he wanted to "start the conversation" that would make it easier for young gay athle ... More >>

A Decade On, Freelancers Union Founder Sara Horowitz Takes Her Fight Mainstream

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100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

Matt Drudge, David Axelrod, and Tina Brown All Still Use AOL Email Addresses

~*xoMattDrudgexo*~@aol.com​You know who still uses an antique AOL email account, apart from your mom? A lot of really famous and important people. Politico's Ben Smith argues today that the outdated email service has actually gone from uncool and dated all the way back around to being a "status sy ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Death Photos Still Secret Despite Freedom of Information Act Attempts

​When President Barack Obama decided he would not make pictures of a dead Osama Bin Laden public for fear of inciting violence by "spiking the football," a handful of enterprising journalists went the legal route to campaign for their release. By filing Freedom of Information Act requests, pub ... 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 >>

Donald Trump Reads Vanity Fair's Blog (About Himself); Google, New York Times Team Up

​"From the office of Donald J. Trump" reads the accompanying card clipped to a printed-out blog post from VanityFair.com, mailed to that magazine's editor-in-chief Graydon Carter. A veteran of covering (and mocking) the rich and famous, some his friends and some less so, Carter and Trump go wa ... More >>

Hillary Clinton and Others Inspire at the Women in the World Summit 2011

The Daily Beast​The second annual Women in the World summit started on Thursday with a welcome from Tina Brown, Editor in Chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast, who hosted the event, and ended with a farewell on Saturday. Over the course of the few days, an esteemed collection of women and me ... More >>

Republican Secret Camera Scam Artist Fools NPR, But Also Muslim-Hating Bloggers

​James O'Keefe, the same Republican operative/twerp/'investigative journalist' behind such secret stings as the undercover ACORN videos (yeah, the pimp costume guy) and the attempted tapping of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu's phones went at it again today with a new video project. This time, O'Ke ... 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 >>

Howard Kurtz Correction Is a Journalism Gift That Keeps On Giving

​Howard Kurtz is a middling, moderate media critic -- one of many of the same kind of white male eggheads -- who frequently gets singled out and faulted for being an especially unconvincing type of navel-gazing, insider asshole. That's why much of the admittedly tiny circle of media-obsessed i ... More >>

The Huffington Post Didn't Steal Anything Except Your Labor and Content, Unfortunately

​It would be very easy to root against the liberal cleavage emporium, occasionally news-breaking, mostly news-aggregating behemoth The Huffington Post, whose most popular articles currently include "PHOTOS: Jennifer Love Hewitt In A Bikini" and something called "WATCH: The Wrong Way To Install ... More >>

The Daily Kill Dossier: A Hit List of News Corp's Freshest Poaches

​As it's been noted, News Corp's daily newspaper built just for the iPad -- The Daily -- is on the way. It is Rupert Murdoch's newest child, the Draco Malfoy to his Voldemort. As such, they're hiring or trying to hire every editorial staffer this side of the Bangkok Bugle Tribune, which I just inv ... More >>

BOOKSHAKALAKA: The National Book Awards Jam Throws Down for 2010

The 2010 National Book Awards at the Cipriani Wall Street ballroom. All the people who were at these tables are still hungover.​An unlikely ballroom of people in the troubled business of literature -- publishers, editors, writers, reporters, and respective sycophants -- gather yearly to ostens ... More >>

Press Clips: RELEASE THE IACRACKEN! (or: Newsweek/Daily Beast Merger Rumored, Again)

​ARISE, DAILY NEWS BEAST OF THE WEEK! Press Clips, Day 20, I'm Somehow Writing About The Observer Again edition, right here:

Fashion Week: DVF Courts Anderson Cooper, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Editorial Warfare; Erin Fetherston Goes Out of Africa

Stacey AndersonSarah Jessica Parker spends another Sunday in church​Oh, to be a fly on the wall at the fashion PR houses when they plan the front rows; it must involve the most strategy since storming Normandy. Sunday's celebrity lineup at Diane von Furstenberg was the master class, conspicuou ... More >>

Shots Returned! Tony Judt's 15 Year-OId Son Just Schooled Michael Wolff

​Yesterday, media pundit and Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff embarrassed himself when he accused the famed and controversial NYU professor, writer, and scholar Tony Judt of fabricating an Op-Ed piece in the New York Times written by Judt and his 15 year-old son on the grounds that no 15 ye ... More >>

Barack Obama is Golden, Rush Limbaugh is Screwed -- Predictions for the Year of the Tiger!

By Fatimah Surjani Ortega Yes, Tiger, this could be your year​Sunday ushers in the Year of Metal Tiger, which sounds like a golf club. That's actually appropriate, because things look auspicious for Tiger Woods -- as long as he can keep his dick in his pants. Just in time for Chinese New Yea ... More >>

It's Oscar Night: The Liveblog!

Welcome to the Village Voice's not-really-annual Oscar liveblog! Feel the electricity. Not sure if you've heard, but: This year's Academy Awards will be UNLIKE ANY YOU'VE EVER SEEN BEFORE! First of all: They've hired an architect to design the set. Money well spent. Next: Taking a page from The M ... More >>

John Updike, Continued

Many complicated tributes to John Updike today. This was a writer with an ambivalent reputation among people of a certain age (and an impossibly glowing one with people of another). But facile opinions tend to fall away at moments like these. The New Yorker's Book Bench has gathered together a sla ... More >>

Pleased to Meet Me

Self-satisfied, insider-y, predictable—a case against the New Yorker Festival

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It's the Wealth, Stupid

Right-wing class warfare swung the 2004 election

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Crouching Stanley, Hidden Gangsta

Why the hanging judge can't keep his hands to himself

Religious Conversion

The Synagogue That Thomas Friedman Built

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Wolves in Sheep's Clothing

The Journalists Who Would Be CEO

Lonely Crowds

Two Shows About New Yorkers in Groups Suggest They Might Be Happier Left Alone

The Fuckup

Downward Spiral

The Guggenheim Museum Touches Bottom

Howard's End

'City Paper' Editor Leaps to 'Tribune'

Letters

Reading Between the Lines

Liz Smith’s Star-Studded Literacy Charity Flunks Better Business Test

Book Samaritans

Housing Works a Hit With Lit Crowd

No Fair Trials for Cops?

The Presumption of Innocence Gets Lost

Sheehy’s Choice

New Bio of Hillary Clinton Bends the Facts

Right-Wing Kingpin Gets Canned

The ‘Post’ Won’t Miss Podhoretz

Gray Hair? Pink Slip!

At Condé Nast, If You're Postmenopausal, You're Dead

Tap, Tap . . . Who's There?

The FBI, Courtesy of the New York Court of Appeals

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My spies say that Playgirl is planning to run nude beach shots of Ricky Martin, presumably revealing la pinga loca.

Republicans Pant for Welfare Massacre

Hot Dreams

Rall Nerve

Readers react en-Maus to attack on Spiegelman

The King of Comix

With Raw, a Pulitzer Prize For Maus, and a Strategic Job at The New Yorker, Art Spiegelman Has Become Lord of All New York Cartoonists. But His Power Is No Laughing Matter.

'This Building Is a Weapon'

Scalded Skin, Poisoned Blood, and Broken Bones in Harlem

The New Monicagate?

A Holocaust We Could Have Stopped

'I Saw My Father Cut to Pieces'

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