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Maggie,
5:57 PM on Mon Jan 28 2008,
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Rupert Murdoch can't hire media maven
Tina Brown to the
Wall Street Journal, because, well, she hates him and the feeling's probably mutual. But a clone
has been found! Her name is Tina, she's a Brit, and she worked at
Tatler too!
Tina Gaudoin will be the editor of the
Journal's new "lifestyle magazine" when it launches in the fall. Rupert, dear, perhaps we ought to devote some time to this during our next session? Murdoch's murky id aside (or not!) what's with
News Corp's anti-American hiring proclivities, hmm? Besides Gaudoin
(far left) Murdoch's top people include Robert Thomson, the
Journal's new Australian publisher and his countryman Col Allan, prickly editor of the
New York Post. A few weeks ago, Allan's replacement
was rumored to be Rebekah Wade, the firey-maned editor of the
Sun. The Post has since dismissed that rumor. Wade wouldn't have been the first UK lady to run the tab—Xana Antunes was editor there till she was canned in 2001. Not that we, um, have anything
against editors from overseas. We're just
saying.