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more about #rumormonger more comments → marginalizer: Uh... Is Gawker scooping Deadspin? Weird. more » The Stephen A. Smith Heckling Society of Gentlemen: This is a disgrace. A sad moment for a once meaningful award. No, Usain Bolt, I'm not sure how much further you were supposed to bend time and space... more » LeeroySpitzer: DIS GUY. more » i'm a bottle: "Sportsman of the Year" rumors? How weird. Also, Derek Jeter, whoever and whatever he does, does not have a pleasing face. more » TheBusinessGuy: Naturally the horrible murders in the Philippines dwarfs anything else in this post--the enormity of the evil is staggering. But to deal with what my... more » manchops: You wanna save Sports Illustrated? GET RID OF TERRY MCDONNELL. The guy sat at Esquire watching circulation fall through the floor, his only real talen... more » ms_priestypants: And it is apparently late 2001 all over again. What is going on? #terror more » miss_msry: At least when I got laid off, the Southern Baptist prick delayed from Good Friday (because the Judge hadn't signed off on the closure of a major metro... more » raincoaster: I don't know why, but I find the idea of Larry Ellison as a Scientologist to be absolutely delicious. #tomcruise more » resipsaloquacious: Why on earth would Tom Cruise be interested in moving to SF? I mean, economically, geographically or culturally . . . what of SF could possibly be of... more » Magister: Congratulations to the proud parents! Now their life will never be the same. #larrypage more » GZAthegenius: Tania Beck looks like Wayne Gretzky. more » BlinkyMcChuck: A lot of companies are using the economy as a reason to fire people even if they're doing well, which of course, is bad for the economy on the whole. ... more » adiam7: Essence has actually increased their sales but the man gives them no love. Glenn and his wife Tania must not read much or visit many websites. The sym... more » AzureTexan: Definition of a moral dilemma: You're the chief surgeon, and you've got the scalpel in hand. You've sworn allegiance to the Hippocratic Oath, but Gle... more » -
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Derek Jeter: Sportsman of the Year
According to Sports Illustrated anyway. An email tipster says the magazine will hand the title to the Yankees captain on Monday in a story by baseball writer Tom Verducci. But what about Elizabeth Lambert? -
#printisdead
Ousted Forbes Employees Rumored To Be Shopping a Tell-All
Tipsters never rest! Today a source says that editors axed in brutal cuts at Forbes are rumored to be shopping a book about the Forbes brothers and a feud between them about the company's direction. More » -
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Time Inc's Pre-Thanksgiving Layoffs
In your trepidatious Tuesday media column: we hear the Time Inc. layoffs hit Fortune (and others?) today, BusinessWeek speaks robot language, Dave Eggers will not stop saving print, and a horrible massacre of journalists in the Philippines. More » -
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Rumors: Staff Shuffles at New York Post, Sports Illustrated
In your foreboding Thursday media column: Rumors of veterans departing their jobs far and wide, Anthony Kennedy's story weakens, newspapers and magazines lose huge money, and Jon Fine's media gig disappears. More » -
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AP Layoffs Coming Down Today?
Last month we heard that the AP might need to make hundreds of layoffs before the end of the year. Some of those layoffs, we hear, could be coming today. More » -
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New Contender for Survivor: OK! Magazine
Getting an editorial job at OK! Magazine has proven to be similar to riding a merry-go-round where you get your head chopped off after one go-round. That said, we'd like to welcome OK!'s new editorial boss! We hear many things. More » -
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Faux-Anthrax Terrorists Gunning For Vulnerable Media Agencies?
The German consulate in Manhattan received a suspicious white powder in an envelope today, just like three other consulates did yesterday. We hear the media agency Initiative, in the same area, had to be evacuated too. Send terror stories here! -
#holidaze
AOL Layoffs Tomorrow to Kick Off Depressing Holiday Season?
'Tis the season to rush up layoffs so they don't fall in the sacrosanct Thanksgiving-to-Christmas period: An AOL insider tells us the company is slated to let go around 100 people tomorrow, following 1,500 firings Electronic Arts announced today. More » -
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San Francisco Braces for Gen. Tom Cruise to Move In (And Perhaps Lead Scientology Offensive)
There's a rumor circulating in the San Francisco press and real estate community: Tom Cruise just bought an $18 million mansion in town. An overgrown pied-à-terre wouldn't be too terrifying — except for that local Scientology expansion drive. More » -
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Another Google Heir Is Born: Larry Page's Son
Larry Page is now the co-creator of something other than the most important internet site in the world: A tipster whispers the Google co-founder is the father of a baby boy, as of Thursday. More » -
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Glenn Beck Survives
In your thumping Thursday media column: Glenn Beck does not die on the operating table, more rumor-details on the Essence layoffs, Fortune and SI get hacked, and a dying newspaper goes glossy, for unknown reasons.
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Time Inc. Layoffs Hit People, Essence
In your completely laid-off Wednesday media column: details on more Time Inc. layoffs and buyouts at People and Essence, Fortune Small Business folds, and various ways that magazine publishers are terrorists. More » -
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Did Mrs. Google's Company Curl Into the Googleplex To Die?
For a company with deep support from Google, 23andMe seems awfully beset by problems: Two layoff rounds in five months and the departure of a co-founder. So when we hear the company is "hemorrhaging cash," we're inclined to believe it. More » -
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Is Google Using Pilfered Maps?
The town of Argleton, England doesn't exist, but you can search its white pages, look for nearby chiropractors and map a jog through town, because "Argleton" is on Google Maps. How'd the phantom town get there? Funny you should ask.
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Olivia Palermo Leaves Manhattan for DUMBO?
We knew that Olivia Palermo, best known for her role as the Upper East Side Stereotype on MTV's The City, had given up Manhattan to move to Brooklyn, we never thought it would be for DUMBO. Ew. More » -
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Laid-Off Vanity Fair Staffers Can Clean Graydon Carter's Stockroom
Graydon Carter—the George Washington of Vanity Fair—was (allegedly) on a jet to Bermuda when layoffs hit the magazine last week. That's okay! Graydon (allegedly) has a very generous way of making it up to the layoff victims. More » -
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BBC to Less Generously Overpay its Managers, With Public Money
In your finally Friday media column: BBC execs must struggle by on $150k, Michael Wolff looks in the mirror and compliments himself, rumors of office closures at Newsweek, and more on the Time Inc. layoffs. More » -
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The Insanely Rich Kid Next Door
For proof that Silicon Valley is home to an especially clubby concentration of wealth, just take a short walk down a stretch of Palo Alto road. The one where Facebook's young paper billionaire lives next to a young YouTube millionaire. More » -
#printisdead
Forbes Layoffs Are Here, and They're Brutal
The layoffs at Forbes, which we first reported on three weeks ago, arrived today, and we hear from inside the magazine that they're "real big.... huge," with a rumored 50 or so editorial staff let go. (Updates: LA+London bureaus gone.) More » -
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A tipster tells us Maxim fired three people in the art and photo departments today.
