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Media Briefs: When Jay Penske Does Not Like Your Boots, You Will Know It
NYU’s warring media publications continue to war. A new media Tumblr-meme-thing’s author is mysterious. Jay Penske pissed on someone’s boots outside of a yacht club, and, after that, what else is there...
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Media Briefs: Contain Your SchadenFareed!
PLEASE TURN AROUND.Another day, another marquee writer who is bus-ted. The New York Times will sometimes respect their readers and the people they quote, and other times, have no respect for their...
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Power Lunch: Fareed Zakaria, Real Talk Update
A real-talking editor gets a really visible new gig. One Hollywood mag honcho may want to watch his shoes. Which uncorruptable writer took money from the Koch Brothers? Which Daily Beast editor changed...
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Media Briefs: Salon Blogger Made Irrelevant by Single, Brilliantly Incisive...
Some Blogger, as Forgotten By History. It’s raining me…dia items. Hallelujah. With so much to get through today, rather than act out the pretense that people are ever going to click on media news...
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Power Lunch: The New York Times, Now in the ‘Pussy’ Business
Meet the new NYT homepage editor. Hide your children. The New York Times finally resolves its ‘Pussy’ issues, a Gawker writer gets a book deal inked, a media outlet’s social media presence gets feisty,...
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Media Briefs: Let Pat Kiernan Live!
Can we just let NY1’s Pat Kiernan live? Fareed Zakaria apparently can’t, at least not with all these haters. Neither can a food journalist upset over food journalists dictating the world’s food fads,...
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Media Briefs: XXL Goes Down a Size
Cutbacks at hip-hop magazine XXL, Barry Diller gets ’bout About, Pat Kiernan’s revenge narrative, Tina Brown’s tour of the woodshed, and the reason we will never, ever, ever be invited back on...
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In Which The Village Voice Leaves the (Village Voice) Building
Two writers are having some crazy Twitter back-and-forth that is ostensibly interesting for its relatively flamboyant qualities, but doesn’t seem particularly worth understanding. On the other hand,...
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Gawker Exclusive Reveals Financial Journalists at Their Most Jaded
Some website just published some documents that we’ve never seen before about some guy who’s running for president, but it’s not like you haven’t already seen or know what’s in the documents that we...
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Local News Crews Still as Shameless and Scrappy as Ever
A local newsman is reminded just how vile some of his contemporaries can be, Amy Sohn gives the best interview of her life, and a whole bunch of media moves are unloaded in Friday Evening’s Media...
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Gawker Media’s Attempt to Crowdsource Paycheck Journalism Goes Flaccid
Have we come to the day when Gawker Media’s hard up for pictures of an Olympic swimmer’s pool noodle (a euphemism for “penis”)? Maybe it’s just decided to use that money to hire people (like its...
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Media Briefs: A Hire at Gawker, Departures at the New York Times and Reuters
A Gawker writer is in. A Times editor is out. A Reuters reporter goes to a trade. A Daily Beast reporter goes toe-to-toe with the best actor from the best film of 1999. All that, and more, in your...
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Media Briefs: Margaret at the New York Times Ombudswoman Wheel
The New York Times ombudswoman—yes: woman!—has made her first mark at the paper. What’s it look like? What’s up with Cosmo‘s new look? What do campaign reporters think about this year’s campaign? What...
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Media Briefs: BuzzMedia Loses a Big Bill
Blog-eating media network BuzzMedia lost a top exec. Village Voice Media named someone who is popular for something to a top spot. The president of MSNBC is excited about winning, or as Charlie Sheen...
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Media Briefs: Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Looking For a ‘Fair and Balanced’...
I, Roger. Fox News chief Roger Ailes is trying to get that paper. Elsewhere in News Corp, two locals go all Benedict Arnold on a certain tablet newspaper and a certain tabloid newspaper. What’s it like...
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