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Bloomberg Fish-head Video We really really want this: a video from the roadshow for Bloomberg's Plan B, a much-needed revamping of the financial news service. Writes a tipster: "They had a typically condescending presentation in NY, with actors wearing fish-heads interviewing Matt Winkler and other psychopaths." If you have a clip, email please!

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journalismism

Spelling Mystery Behind Hardee Obit

Setting aside the health implications of fast-food pioneer Wilber Hardee's death at the advanced age of 89, one is drawn to the mystery of his first name. No one seems to know how to spell it. The Times went with "Wilber" for its obit. But hey, Times, how about fact-checking your journalism with that most august and reliable of primary sources, the Hardee's Cool Kids website? As show above and to the right, it renders the name "Wilbur," as do about 3,140 Web pages in Google's index in an exact-phrase search, vs. just 1,510 for "Wilber." And "Wilbur" also wins in a Google News search, with 54 uses (including AP!) vs. just "about 10" for "Wilbur." But wait, there are so many more wrinkles to this obit mystery! More »

10:25 PM on Thu Jun 26 2008
By Ryan Tate
1,171 views, 49 comments

Latest by Aaron Altman: @KarenUhOh: Oh I love you. @BalknChain: I think Ryan's already in his blue Toyota Celica, packed to the hilt with camping equipment and paintball gun, ready to hit the hills of southern Montana. Good luck to you, Ryan Tate. more »

request for information

The Memoirs Of Emily Gould, 26

Yep, the inevitable: agency Trident is hawking a book proposal by the self-revealing former Gawker writer and controversial New York Times Magazine covergirl. The working title is And The Heart Says... Whatever; "I assume it's 400 pages of the word me in different fonts," says one publishing industry spy. Dewy Gould's latest career move isn't that surprising: Ana Marie Cox went out to publishers the week after the Wonkette editor appeared on the front cover of the same Sunday supplement. Gould's outline is being messengered rather than emailed to prevent a leak to a certain website. But I'm sure someone can sneak at least a few pages to the scanner. Email us.

12:31 PM on Tue Jun 24 2008
By Nick Denton
5,979 views, 106 comments

Latest by n/a: I know I'm coming into this discussion a day late (I took the week off from work, so my motivation for reading Gawker has lowered), but has anyone drawn a comparison between Emily and Elizabeth Wurzel? If not, then let more »

businessweek

The Bitchiest Business Magazine In America

BusinessWeek Magazine sure is one big hellhole, judging strictly by the internal backstabbing, sniping, and intra-office gossip wars that go on there. The latest scathing editorial criticism comes in the form of a comment on a blog interview of BW.com editor John Byrne. A helpful reader takes the opportunity to point out that Byrne's predecessor was the widely despised Kathy Rebello, infamous for once hyping stories on her own site with praise from a fake commenter. Also discussed by the angry commenter: a celebrity gossip-refugee news editor with a shelf full of Barbie dolls, and a napkin-folding Rebello underling who fetched his boss water on command (we need one of those!). The provocative comment—along with some context from a BW insider, and our request for more information—after the jump. More »

11:03 AM on Mon Jun 16 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,191 views, 7 comments

Latest by n/a: get ready for their huge turnaround. i heard they hired a new WW AP thats turing that place around. sales calls may even be in the works..stay tuned more »

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Prescott Hahn

Anyone know the self-satisfied and self-styled "hedge fund manager" in this photo from last week's Fashion Meets Finance mixer? His name is Prescott Hahn, and we suspect he'll be of interest. [Photo of the event, a Manhattan mingler for wealthy guys and the fashion girls who love them, from the New York Post. And here's Gawker's original report from this gold-digger's ball.]

8:52 AM on Tue Jun 10 2008
By Nick Denton
6,098 views, 44 comments

television

CBS Early Show Staffers: Watch Your Backs

How is it humanly possible for the CBS Early Show to be so dysfunctional? And so early in the morning, at that? The show has been a nest of infighting for months, since the times of deposed mean boss Shelley Ross. Now, we hear that more scheming and devious machinations are underway. A tipster says that Zev Shalev, who was named a senior producer for the show in March (and who CBS execs are said to want to take over permanently as the show's top producer), may be in the crosshairs of Michael Rosen, another senior producer who was once described to us as "a tyrant to the staff." Laurye Blackford, a departing senior producer and "mean girl," may also be involved. Of course, anyone who has survived at the show through all of its internal turbulence must be presumed to be an expert Machiavellian corporate backstabber. Beware, CBS staffers! Do you have any more info on the Early Show's drama? Email us, please.

11:41 AM on Tue May 27 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
935 views, 5 comments

Latest by n/a: is that show even on anymore? more »

fameballs

Unemployed Magazine Publisher Randomly In All The Papers This Morning

The Times metro section ran a story this morning about Joe Armstrong, and how he's "the Mayor" of Michael's, the media power-lunch sport, and a ubiquitous presence there and friends with all the regulars and, according to Carly Simon, "probably the most loved person in New York.” It was the same sort of atmospheric, getting-to-know-your-city type column the same writer did on Nikola Tamindzic, our own nightlife photographer. Fair enough! Armstrong was publisher at New York, Rolling Stone, Saveur and was involved to a lesser extent with a bevy of other publications, like Harper's Bazaar and USA Today. He's on sabbatical from ABC News and has been doing charity work for the past two years. He's still well-connected, the Times insisted. As if to underscore this point, the Post, this same morning, ran a friendly item on Page Six about a pin Armstrong wore, tongue-in-cheek, to a book party: "the image of John McCain hugging President Bush under the words, 'Four More Years!'" I hate to say this about someone so beloved but, Joe, if you can get this much coverage just, you know, hanging out, maybe consider a career in PR. Or as an editor-at-large for Star! They pay six figures for doing basically nothing, and we could probably make an introduction. (Photo via Trinity University)

8:15 AM on Thu May 22 2008
By Ryan Tate
577 views, 3 comments

Latest by Gravy Train: Joe is a great guy but this story is a disgusting waste of paper and ink. Is this what all those layoffs at the Times paid for? Feh. more »

this thing looks like that thing

New Yorker Copies Cartoon

A University of Wisconsin professor believes the New Yorker ripped off famed comic book illustrator Jack Kirby with the cartoon on the right, which was used for the magazine's popular back-page caption contest. So the professor dug out the Kirby comic on the left and started complaining. The New Yorker said its cartoon was intended as "an overt reference... not an attempt to plagiarize... a tribute," and added an online credit to Kirby, but that wasn't good enough for the prof. So he rang up the Post and complained that Kirby "never got proper credit then, and isn't getting proper credit now." Well, then. The similarity is so great it's hard to imagine the New Yorker cartoonist, Harry Bliss, actually thought he was going to pull a fast one. And the cover is kind of perfect for a caption contest. But if this particular comic book is super obscure, that makes the "it's an homage" explanation much less plausible. Comic book geeks, your services are at last required! How obscure is this Tales To Astonish? (If you can't find our comments section or email addresses, then you're almost certainly not a comic book nerd.) [Post]

5:47 AM on Thu May 22 2008
By Ryan Tate
4,760 views, 37 comments

Latest by Lycosidae: @mycroft2000: Not everyone can be in the brass potato club, though. more »

request for information

Hamptons Party Calendar

Summer is almost upon us, party people. And we're considering putting together a party calendar, so all of you know where to sneak in and scam free booze from rich people. We need YOU to email us info about highfalutin' upcoming parties in the Hamptons, and we'll do the rest. To give you a general idea of what we're looking for, here's an invitation for all of you to a Social Life Magazine party this weekend that will feature none other than Whitney Port from The Hills! OMG OMG. Send more now! More »

5:13 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Hamilton Nolan
2,953 views, 9 comments

Latest by n/a: So is the Tractor Pull RSVP also? more »

It's A Circus There's no Gawker correspondent at this week's Mediabistro conference—unless a tipster volunteers for the role. (Photograph: Julia Allison and sidekicks greeted attendees with top hats.)

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Did You Survive Bonnie Fuller? To mark the passing of the much-hated magazine editor, Gawker will run eulogies from former colleagues who survived Fuller's reign of terror at Us Weekly and Star. Let it all out.

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Hook Up With Fellow New York Times Readers Every exhausted old institution now has a revivifying social network, the Gray Lady included. I'm told a browser plug-in is now available in beta, allowing users to contact each other and chat about articles—or hook up, more likely. Can't wait to see who proprietor Arthur Sulzberger includes in his buddy list! This will be so much fun—or would be, if only I could get hold of the plug-in. Help!

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Gayfights Somebody must have snatched a photo of last night's shoving match between Kristian Laliberte, Gawker's favorite benefit-hopping gay, and Derek Blasberg, self-appointed arbiter of socialite status. Of course, it wasn't much of a match. Laliberte—accused by Blasberg of bad-mouthing the Style.com reporter—was reduced to tears, poor dear. Photos to tips@gawker.com.

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Thomas Friedman Pied Any Brown students catch Friedman on camera after a green pie was thrown at the New York Times columnist at a lecture, yesterday? Email us. The pie was thrown by an environmentalist protesting the globalization enthusiast's "sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism's conquest of the planet."

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The Assistant Weds Anybody seen Lauren Weisberger's wedding photographs? The Devil Wears Prada author was married this weekend in the Caribbean. We're assuming Anna Wintour, Weisberger's former boss at Vogue and a model of the icy fashion editor in her book, wasn't invited.

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Stephen Perrine What do you know about Stephen Perrine, editor of Best Life magazine? Email.

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rumors

Katie Couric's Next Producer?

A source wrote in to say the the CBS Evening News is in talks with former Good Morning America producer Ben Sherwood, once said to be in the running to replace abrasive Shelley Ross at CBS' Early Show. Evening News producer Rick Kaplan has been filling in as Early Show producer and would remain, at least under the deal being pushed by Alan Berger, who you'll recall is Sherwood's agent from Creative Artists Agency. Sherwood left Good Morning America in late 2006. (Photo via BenSherwood.com)

9:04 PM on Mon Mar 24 2008
By Ryan Tate
605 views, 4 comments

Latest by MrInBetween: Katie will only be saved if she hires Simon Cowell to be her producer. Simon can turn any piece of tired rubbish into liquid gold. more »

Bang What was that loud noise just now on the upper floors of the New York Times building?

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