'Editor Finds Job' Is the New 'Man Bites Dog'
A newsflash from the New York Post: Unemployed 26-year-old writer Paige Ferrari, once a featured editor at now-defunct magazine Radar, has found part-time work!
Radar: The Final Insult
Radar magazine died a particularly gruesome death in its third iteration: bought by AMI, its website was gutted and replaced by a terrible Zombie Radar. Now, print mag subscribers received one last insult via postcard:
Hotshot political blogger's covert funding
Ana Marie Cox, the original Wonkette blogger, left our cozy Gawker family two years ago for a big gig with Time. A regular on TV and in wonky political magazines I don't read, Cox has been blogging for Time from John McCain's plane. But now Ana Marie is in trouble: Turns out her $1,000-a-day expenses on McCain's plane…
Time Inc. Pulls Back, Fox News Apologizes
♦ Details on the layoffs and management changes at Time Inc. [NYP]
♦ More on the demise of Maer Roshan's Radar and its God-awful TMZ-like reincarnation. [NYO, HuffPo]
♦ Fox News has apologized for putting a racist and anti-Semite on the air. [MM]
♦ Noted media expert (and former basketball player) Charles…
Radar Dies, Inexplicably Portfolio Lives On
Huffington Post reporter Jason Linkins and Ana Marie Cox on the closing of Radar last week: "It should have been Portfolio." Video after the jump.
Magazine Meltdown
It happens in threes, it seems: Radar magazine was shuttered earlier today. Then came the news that 02138, the glossy mag for Harvard grads, was closing down. Now Fashion Week Daily is reporting that Elle Accessories has folded, too.
The Times Endorses Obama, Radar Closes
♦ The New York Times has endorsed Barack Obama, not surprisingly. [NYT]
♦ If Bravo loses Project Runway, there's always the copycat show Fashion House to fill the void. [NYP]
♦ Maer Roshan's Radar magazine has folded. [Gawker]
♦ OK! has a brand new editor, publisher and executive creative director. [NYP]
Is John Cleese Marrying That Radar Blonde?
When reports first surfaced that British comedian John Cleese was canoodling in Europe with 30-plus-years-younger Veronica Smiley, the couple emphasized they were just close friends getting to know one another. But now it looks like Smiley, a marketing exec at Radar's parent company, is on track to become the fourth…
The Times, ASmallWorld, and Amy Poehler
Jezebel Moe Jumps To Radar
After fourteen months as a founding editor of Gawker Media's Jezebel, Moe Tkacik is jumping to Radar as a senior writer for RadarOnline.com. She joins, on the online side, Gawker alumni Alex Balk, Neel Shah and Choire Sicha (sorta — Sicha freelances). Ana Marie Cox, founding editor of Gawker Media's Wonkette, is a…
John Cleese's Radar Connection
British comedian John Cleese is, as the UK tabloids would put it, dating a blonde HALF his age. But that's not the most embarrassing thing about the 34-year-old. The woman, Veronica Smiley, is also vice president for marketing at Radar magazine! (We kid, we kid. Radar has fantastic marketing.) (UPDATE: According to…
Yusef Jackson's Money
Ownership of a media outlet can still occasionally protect public figures from unwelcome attention. New York Post owner Rupert Murdoch does seem to have a tacit non-disparagement arrangement with Mort Zuckerman of the New York Daily News. However, an investment like Yusef Jackson and Ron Burkle's in Radar magazine is…
The 'Nuts' Story That Won't Be Appearing On Radar
Reverend Jesse Jackson's secretly videotaped vow to cut off Barack Obama's nuts is a wonderful story, combining inter-generational resentment, racial politics and testicles. A wonderful story, that is, for every media outlet except Maer Roshan's Radar. The magazine is backed in name at least by Yusef Jackson, the…
Radar Still in Print
OMG! Radar magazine is still publishing in that funny old timey "print" medium! And they've got Maddox Jolie as Ashton Kutcher and Suri Cruise as an Olsen twin... Or something! Actually, I would like to know which nepotism-favored "Power Brats" they're really talking about. Maer, hook me up! [OhNoTheyDidn't]
The Spitzer Effect
The fall of Eliot Spitzer, the zealous crusader who relaxed with high-priced hookers, has scrambled the propriety of New York's media institutions. Not only was the staid New York Times first to publish the identity of Spitzer's escort; the latest cover of Adam Moss' usually high-minded New York Magazine is borrowed…
Radar's Chris Tennant
It's the end of one of the great magazine marriages: deputy editor Chris Tennant, right-hand viper to Radar's Maer Roshan, is leaving the magazine. The move isn't entirely surprising. Tennant (whose brain is an encyclopedia of who's fucked whom, literally and metaphorically) has lasted longer than any other veteran of…
Magazines Exiled From America
Apart from the New Yorker and Radar magazine, about 1,000 other titles have been evicted from the shelves of Wal-Mart, America's biggest retailer. Folio Magazine has the complete list.
Does Accomplishment Count For Nothing?
Radar magazine puts Lauren Conrad, the Teen Vogue intern in reality show The Hills, atop the magazine's fashion industry power list. She beats out Anna Wintour, the Vogue editor. Well, not really. Wintour still has the power to make and break designers like nobody else. But one can pretend, for the sake of controversy.
Reason #101: Because You Pick Radar Magazine To Plagiarize
"The Sunday Times inadvertently ran an article at the weekend that plagiarised ... a list, '100 Reasons You're Still Single,' that appeared is US pop culture Radar magazine last September." [Media Guardian]
