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The Twitterati Help Us Realize What Blueprint Cleanse Tastes Like

Owen Thomas — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:22:13 EDT

Twitter is like a real-time conversation! And just like many conversations, sometimes you want to cover your ears, Eric Eldon, Micki Maynard, Ellen McGirt and others teach us:

New York Times Detroit bureau chief Micki Maynard pursued her love of U2 to absurd lengths.

Ultrapretentious startup consultant Chris Sacca got excited about a nude wedding.

Marie Claire features editor Lea Goldman contracted the Blueprint Cleanse flu.

VentureBeat snooper Eric Eldon listened in.

Fast Company writer Ellen McGirt made an obscure Blueprint Cleanse reference, we think.

Did you witness the media elite tweet something indiscreet? Please email us your favorite tweets — or send us more Twitter usernames.

Refugees in Chad Could Have Used That Soup, Twitter Lady

Owen Thomas — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:43:54 EST

What did the media overshare today? Jennifer 8. Lee thought about high school reunions instead of Snapple, Today's Ann Curry toured refugee camps, and Fast Company's Ellen McGirt got down with a lot of leather.

New York Times Snapple researcher Jennifer 8. Lee caught up with a high school friend.

Today news anchor Ann Curry thought up quippy lines in Chad.

Seattle journalist Glenn Fleishman remembered who paid the bills.

Fast Company writer Ellen McGirt got an eyeful of beige.

Elizabeth Holmes of the Wall Street Journal spilled the beans.

Anyone else's tweets we should keep an eye on? Send us more Twitter usernames, please.

On Twitter, Seeing Is Believing

Owen Thomas — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:23:26 EST

Perez Hilton saw a market opportunity, Michelle Malkin saw her kid, Jimmy Fallon saw Martha Stewart, and CNN's Rick Sanchez saw red! Today's tweets from the media elite:

Internet gossip (we like those!) Perez Hilton sought refreshment after an exhausting twitterfight with Ashton Kutcher.

CNN's Rick Sanchez GOT SO MAD HE HIT THE CAPS LOCK KEY.

Late-night funny guy Jimmy Fallon looked forward to meeting Martha Stewart.

Fast Company's Ellen McGirt expressed her enthusiasm.

Conservative punditrix Michelle Malkin did her part to ensure the survival of the blogger species.

Anyone else's tweets we should keep an eye on? Send us more Twitter usernames, please.

A Chill Sweeps the Twitterati

Owen Thomas — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:57:12 EST

Oh, the plaintive tweets about New York's lousy weather! And yet the media elite remained so addicted to Twitter they took off their mittens to overinform the world.

Fast Company editor Ellen McGirt grappled with a broken iPhone ...

... and so did New York Times TV blogger Brian Stelter.

AllThingsD blogger Peter Kafka kept his eye on the thermometer ...

... while CNET News reporter Caroline McCarthy worried she might turn into one. (What really should concern her: All that platonic cuddling with fameball Rex Sorgatz!)

Things got frosty for Wired contributor Clive Thompson ignored his wife, Emily Nussbaum, for a book. Nussbaum, a New York editor-at-large, took her complaints to Twitter.

Ellen McGirt: New Money Editor? (Nope!)

Ryan Tate — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:27:48 EST

The Times has new details about Eric Schurenberg's departure from Time Inc.'s Money: It is supposedly related to "talk within the company of a new editorial direction" for the 2 million-circulation title. Yes, the collapse of Western capitalism would seem to pose some, uh, new and unique challenges to a personal finance magazine, and it sounds like Money has already found more than its share of efficiencies on the business side, sharing an ad staff and website with other company brands. Who will be the Neel Kashkari of Money's editorial rescue plan? We hear the new editor might be Ellen McGirt, a former Money columnist and editor-at-large who later wrote for Fortune and Fast Company. (UPDATE: Not her, she says.) You may have seen her on the teevee!

McGirt has served as a guest correspondent for CNN’s American Morning, and has appeared frequently on Good Morning America, CBS Early Today, NBC Nightly News, CNN, NBC's Weekend Today, HGTV and BET.

So said the press release announcing McGirt's hiring by Fast Company last year. It also quoted the magazine's editor calling her "a rising star in the world of business journalism."

McGirt's online editorial experience at AOL, Oxygen Media and Yahoo properties would be an asset amid Time Inc.'s heightened focus on non-print "platforms." And it can't hurt that she knows how to turn Barack Obama into cover-worthy financial journalism.

A tipster tells us only that McGirt was offered the job; Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey sounded certain in his memo about Schurenberg's departure that the outgoing editor's replacement would be named "early next week." If you have any idea whethe McGirt — or someone else — agreed to take the helm, do let us know.

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