Tim Arango Is Next NYT Baghdad Bureau Chief
In your jobby Friday media column: Rebecca Dana to Newsweek, Foster Kamer to Esquire, Tim Arango to Baghdad, and Barry Diller to the easy life. And, Emily Brill.
Emily Brill's Wild Journalistic Adventure
Journo-heiress and ultimate narrator Emily Brill is bursting back upon the media scene in a major way! She's under assault by Harvard University! She has a new blockbuster work of journalism on the way! Come, marvel!
Michael Hastings Gets a Book Deal, Emily Brill Returns
In your sizzling Tuesday media column: Michael Hastings has a war book coming, talking about Howie Kurtz is more important than anything, The Upshot finally launches, Clay Shirky says print is dead, and Emily Brill's back in action.
Paid Content Guy Fails to Get Paid for Content
NYU took free courseware from PaidContent's founder; your outfit freaked out Caroline McCarthy; and Emily Brill called on Google to live out loud, like her. The Twitterati eyed their circumstances warily.
What Would We Do Without Fameballs?
You may want to be seated as we deliver this news: Arthur Kade, the internet's biggest vagina, had a near-death experience yesterday. But as one fameball wavers on the precipice, another fameball friend could soon make her return!
The Persistent Failure of Steven Brill
Steven Brill has a reputation for being a media wise man—a deep-thinking mogul who's always spotting the opportunities of The Future. Which is kind of strange, since the majority of his projects have been ostentatious failures.
So You Want to Be a Fameball?
Too often, random people contact us, begging to be covered as fameballs. What they don't realize is that fameballdom is an organic process. This guide will help your effort to become ubiquitous and despicable:
Sounds easy, right? Wrong! Any of the following things can kill your budding fameball career faster than…Where in the World is Emily Brill?
Heiressblogger and ultimate narrator Emily Brill is pulling some shenanigans! Her blog seems to have been erased. The ghostly message replacing it: "Hey New Yorkers, One year on the blog was always the plan. Now working on long term (and paying) projects. Yours, Emily"
"My handwriting is cryptic and so am I."
We got this sweet picture of media heiress and ultimate narrator Emily Brill looking fancy on New Year's Eve. So as an excuse to run it, let's hear Emily's analysis of MTV's The City:
Happy Birthday, Emily Brill
Today is Emily Brill's birthday! Take a moment, if you would, to reflect back on what the young media heiress has accomplished in this past year: inspired by a mean Gawker post, she founded her very own blog, triumphed over disease, traveled to distant lands, posed provocatively, wore her pearl necklace, stood…
From the Desk Of Emily Brill: Trenchant, Hand-Scrawled Gossip Girl Musings
Oh Emily Brill. The blogging (she's Hamilton's favorite New York writer, for serious) media heiress has stooped to our level. Last night she decided to swallow the horse pill of her pride and watch an episode of bitchy Upper East Side teen soap opera
The McLaughlin Group
, and then wrote about it! It could be seen as…
Emily Brill Afflicted with Blogger Burnout
Burnout: it happens to the best (and the worst!) of bloggers. Everyone's susceptible—even professional unpaid societyblogger-heiresses like Fifth Avenue Misfit Emily Brill. Her blog was down for like, days! (Everyone has those George Constanza moments where they storm out of work in a huff, only to return the next day…
Emily Brill: An Appreciation
Since she came into the blogging world just a short time ago, Emily Brill's complete lack of awareness has been properly appreciated by fameball connoisseurs the world over. Is the future heiress to the Brill fortune now gone like Keyser Söze? Some are speculating that Emily terminated her blog because of an ultimatum…
Wednesday Party Report
Dylan Lauren celebrated the re-launch of Dylan's Candy Bar on Monday night with a bash at her Third Avenue store. In addition to siblings Andrew and David and mom Ricky, guests included Woody Allen and Soon-Yi (with their kids), Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and wife Vanessa Trump, Lauren Bush, Dan Abrams, Olivia…
The Ultimate Narrator
Emily Brill: "This place is so beautiful. It sucks to go home alone. earlier. But I told him no. I’m a prude. Sorry. I wonder what my friends from did tonight. Or maybe they didn’t do anything. I bet they all got 7 hours of sleep. or at least 6. One of them had a birthday this wknd and didn’t even invite me. Asshat.…
Emily Brill
Good morning! We're bringing back our Gawker Pin-Up feature. Today's candidate: socialite and publishing heiress,
blogger Emily Brill. She's channeling Sarah Palin and holding a gun. Brill is usually eager to highlight her uptown upbringing—as she told , "I didn't come from a chicken farm—I cam from Dalton." (Have any…
Emily Brill Is Not Too Young For A Pearl Necklace
To our great disappointment, media heiress and
Palin-supporting blogger from the planet Pluto did offer up one of her "OMG live blogs" from last night's debate. On the plus side, she is finally putting this whole "pearl necklace" issue to rest: Oh, we agree. Lots of kids get em in their teens these days. Preach,…
Emily Brill's Vote Will Cancel Yours Out
Yesterday we told you the media heiress and
fervent Sarah Palin fan Emily Brill was to watch the VP debates and live blog them, for some reason. As a salve to the wounded egos of those of you unable to attend, caught up with Emily for an awkward sidewalk interview about life and politics that somehow just makes our…
Things To Crash: Emily Brill's Exclusive Debate Party
Apparently there's some sort of political "debate" tonight in which a crazy man from Delaware is going to be yelling at the young and clueless child bride of a Russian fur trader. Yes, Joe Biden is debating Sarah Palin tonight—winner gets the most meaningless job in politics. And now, like Rose La Touche hosting the…
Sarah Palin, Reconsidered. (*Snicker*)
Heiress and
ultimate narrator on Sarah Palin: "But beyond discourse, she’s even inspired people to take risks in expression. I have one ‘boldfaced’ friend who finally started wearing an Obama pin to events after the Palin announcement, against the wishes of the conservative ’society’ family he comes from. So whatever…
