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rumormonger
The Onion Said To Be Negotiating Sale
The Onion this month told staff that resisting advertiser pressure is a "losing game." But it seems the humor publication isn't just keen to sell its soul to sponsors; we hear The Onion is talking about selling everything. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by TedSez: Local Man Purchases Fake-News Operation "This is a terrible time to be in the news business," said Arthur J. Marsinning Jr.,... 14 Responses | Other threads
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lunchtime gossip
Is Twitter Handing Over Private Data to the Feds?
The Twitterati are only too happy to take their private moments public. But Silicon Valley's technical wizards are whispering to one another over lunch that the the federal intelligence apparatus wants more, and is taking it. (Update: Twitter denies)
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By Ryan TateComment by MaelstromInTheMiddle: Isn't Twitter and private data an oxymoron really? 1 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Felix Dennis Is a Food Safety Fanatic
Felix Dennis is publishing's wild man! How is the former Maxim publisher and admitted (then hastily retracted!) murderer keeping himself busy these days? More »
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Comment by GooberSaysHey: True story: I once interviewed at Maxim for a freelance gig like 6 or 7 years ago ... while I... 1 Responses | Other threads
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cubicle culture
Exposed: Mystery Googler With Movie-Star Apartment
Who is the rich Google employee who bought a Park Slope mansion from movie stars Jennifer Connelly and husband Paul Bettany? The New York Times wouldn't say. But it wasn't hard to figure out. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by i'm a bottle: Take off the family portrait. Really. 2 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Are Michael Wolff and Victoria Floethe Done?
Have Michael Wolff and Victoria Floethe broken up? That's what we hear! If true — and please tell us, either way — it's a tragic end to a fairy tale romance that enchanted even the most jaded of observers. More »
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By PareeneComment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Did we ever figure out if she was a spy? 4 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Is Eric Schmidt Hanging Out with His Ex-Girlfriend Again?
Google's CEO was once thought to be quite serious about Marcy Simon; Eric Schmidt's sometime PR consultant was spotted wearing an engagement ring. Then, a breakup and talk of another woman. But the pair have reportedly reached a new accommodation. More » -
the gays
The Crowdsourced Celebrity Gay List
Crowds may be wise, but they're not necessarily savvy. Witness this online poll, where the first 2,500 respondents have deemed Mario Lopez flamingly gay, while Kevin Spacey and Vin Diesel get loads of votes as straight.
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rumormonger
Matthew Winkler Hates the International Herald Tribune?
How is Matthew Winkler, bow-tied tyrant-in-chief at Bloomberg News, quashing his staffers' dreams today? By making his underlings suffer because of a grudge he has against one of the world's most prestigious papers, according to an insider [UPDATED below]. More »
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Comment by Social Crimer: Yankees always fuck up the metric system. 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Where Were You When Vibe Died?
In your emboldened Wednesday media column: More on the Spin layoffs, "Where were you when Vibe died?" stories begin, Froomkin's proud, Michael Wolff's unnecessarily loud, and newspapers are how(itzer)ed. More »
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Comment by Rickyneck: The best part of Vibe was the "20 Questions". If unkut.com decided to make a magazine, that would be what's... more » | Other threads
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rumormonger
Thousands of Layoffs Coming at Gannett?
Gannett, America's largest newspaper publisher, has already written down the value of its papers by almost $6 billion and instituted mandatory furloughs this year. But it could get worse—are thousands of layoffs coming next week? More »
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Comment by Better to Eat You With: I heard this date a week or so ago from a family member at a Gannett paper. They've all been... more » | Other threads
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nerdspotting
First Sighting of Steve Jobs Officially Back at Work
Apple won't say whether Steve Jobs was at the office today as part of his official return to the company. But a Valleywag spy spotted the CEO on his company's Cupertino campus. Jobs apparently left early:
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By Ryan TateComment by atlasfugged: He still looks pretty frail to me (and still sporting the black turtleneck - in summer?). 6 Responses | Other threads
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michael jackson
Where Is—And Was—Michael Jackson's Doctor?
When Jermaine Jackson made a statement on his brother's death last night, he noted that Michael Jackson's family physician was with him when he collapsed. But who is he? And where's that doctor now? The world is looking for him.
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Comment by momof3wildkids: I was on demerol during the labor of one of my kids. The nurses calmed me down because they... 34 Responses | Other threads
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gossip
'Anderson Cooper's Big Fat Coming Out Party' (Updated)
What will Anderson Cooper be doing tonight? Unvogue Magazine says he'll be attending a party at the Sapphire Go-Go Lounge for their men's issue. It's been informally dubbed "Anderson Cooper's Big Fat Coming Out Party." [UPDATED: AC's denial below]:
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Comment by Richard Lawson: "Hello, we are the boy band Stark and we are here to eat your skin." 7 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Layoffs Rumored at Mrs. Google's Genetics Company
Genetics company 23AndMe can purportedly help you predict your health in decades to come, but we're hearing the three-year-old company can't even forecast its own near-term needs: A tipster tells us the company laid off seven employees. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by the_k_record: Maybe they should hire Camille from NYC Prep. 1 Responses | Other threads
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collect calls
Is Amy Sacco Broke?
Even if you're lucky enough to have work, you may not be lucky enough to actually collect a check. If public shame is your only option, tell us about it and we'll post your story. Today: Amy Sacco's Bungalow 8. More »
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Comment by if_i_only_had_a_heart: so it's easier to get in now? omg, i'm sorry 2 Responses | Other threads
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valley spawn
Google's Naughty Heir Lusts for New York
Philippe Dauman Jr. can't stop flouting taboos. Friends remember his Park Avenue orgies. Family members note he joined Google when his father's Viacom sued it for $1 billion. Even San Francisco, we hear, is too tepid for him. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by TallulahSkankhead: This Father's Day, I'll be giving thanks that my dad talks like a regular human being. 1 Responses | Other threads
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books
Facebook Tell-All Released Into Wild
Facebook's creation myth has left the building, or so we hear: Fortune is said to be readying an excerpt of Ben Mezrich's tell-all book and movie about the social network. And another publication is, naturally, trying to ruin the scoop. More » -
mysteries
Why Won't the Times Review Warren St. John's Book?
Warren St. John, the dreamy NYT reporter and author of incongruous 'Bama football book Rammer Jammer Yellow Hammer, has a heartwarming new book about refugee soccer players that is a smash hit. Why won't his own paper review it? More »
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Comment by son of spam: Again with the refugees. When is someone going to write a book about the Scarsdale sixth-graders, who went undefeated this... 4 Responses | Other threads
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reporters in peril
Current's Strategy of Silence
A Current employee has shed (a bit) more light on why Current has steadfastly refused to mention the fact that two of its reporters have been detained in North Korea for months. The legal department's "overzealous." But why? More »
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Comment by saythatscool: I want to throw a hot dog down Laura Ling's hallway. 13 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Making, Writing About Music Both Lead to Poverty
In your woozy Wednesday media column: multiple music magazines die, the Boston Globe thinks it's too tough to kill, Harvard newsies can't find jobs, Surface magazine gets a cheaper office, and a report from the newspaper conspiracy meeting: More »
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Comment by MissCast: As a musician and a music journalist - yes, I am a Poor squared. 4 Responses | Other threads
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gossip
Smart Media People Moonlight in Booze
We'll give you one guess: Which is the heaviest-drinking class of "professionals" in England? If you said "the media," you are well acquainted with the media's habits! In fact, we hear that some media workers here are going into the booze business as a dependable second job: More »
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Comment by kneetoe: I take it that 1.5 bottles plus 3.2 measures is less than 10 units, unless IT workers don't drink at... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Too good to check
The One About the Crotch-Rubbing
Sometimes we get a tip that's just so fun that we can't bear to check it and find out that maybe it was just made up by some loon and/or convicted sexual predator. Like this one about Fox 5 reporter Julie Chang's way of saying "thank you": More »
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Comment by bjonston: In any event, I'll accept her thanks any day of the week. Me so horny. 8 Responses | Other threads
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media
MissBehave Totally Dunzo
Cool-girl mag MissBehave went online-only early this year, and now it sounds like the people who run the place are totally closing up shop, kaput, blammo, totally erased from the face of the earth, blog and all. If you know more on this, email us. [Blogue. UPDATE: Yes, it's dead.]
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Comment by Schadenfrau: "I have visions of grander for my new lifestyle." I really hope she does. 4 Responses | Other threads
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from the mailbag
Student-Professor Dust-Up at Columbia
Today was graduation at the Columbia Journalism School, and the ceremonies were tinged with regret. Not just because the news media is imploding, either: there's a mysterious flap involving a non-graduating student and a professor who supposedly breached "standards of communication." More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Cecil's Wielder: Bronson Pinchot has been moonlighting as a grabby journalism professor? 3 Responses | Other threads
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updates
New Boss In Control at OK! Magazine
Here's something unexpected: angry insiders tipping us off about OK! Magazine's management shuffle! Jason Oliver Nixon is now running things, they say: More »
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Comment by octopusink: I'm sorry, I just don't see what this has to do with Kari Farrell, aka the Hipster Grifter. I... 5 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Google's 'Darth Vader'
In flusher times, Google geeks set the agenda for company sales executives; distracting sidelines were encouraged. The recession — assisted by a new sales chief who apparently doesn't mind his diabolical reputation — foreclosed on such coddling. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Nyarlathotep: Google places sponsor links above natural search results, which AOLers click, generating Google revenue. You're probably a Firefox user running Customise... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Media Crack
Paste Magazine Not Long For This World?
In your action-packed Wednesday media column: Paste Magazine's teetering, Thai newspapers are bloody, Jonah Goldberg whines foolishly, WSJ warns staffers about Twitter doom, and much more! More »
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Comment by Ohcaptainmycaptain: Goddamnit. I (used to) love Paste Magazine. First "No Depression", now "Paste"? Where am I supposed to read thinly-veiled love... 1 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Could Apple Buy Twitter?
Facebook tried to buy Twitter. Google and Microsoft have been giving the red-hot Internet-messaging startup the eye. But we hear it's Apple that's closest to sealing a deal, possibly for as much as $700 million.
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By Owen ThomasComment by babyjesus: mission hipsters build websites? i thought they were all chillin in smoke shops waiting for the 1st and the 15th... 4 Responses | Other threads
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the internet
How Long Before the NYT Shuts Down Its Scandalous Twitterers?!
In January, the New York Times' standards editor issued guidelines about how editorial staffers are allowed to use Facebook and other scary online tools. Is reporter Twittering making a mockery of those guidelines? Let's explore! More »
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Comment by SultanaEleusis: Name me two people who wish The Times ill! Okay, name me two million, along with their middle initials... 1 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
OK! Magazine Flails About Wildly
We hear OK! Magazine has laid off creative director Sean Bumgarner, #3 on its masthead. This follows a weekend full of shakeups. What is going on over there? Grasping desperately at shrinking market share, probably! More »
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Comment by SultanaEleusis: If each of us would go out today and buy two copies of OK!, maybe they could get thru this... 1 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
New Top Editor at OK!?
We hear Jason Oliver Nixon, once editor of Gotham, will oversee OK!'s editor in chief Katie Caperton, the former copy editor who recently became the magazine's third editor in eight months. More » -
fameballs
Nouriel Roubini Bans Reporters From Party Palace
Party-having economist Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini is no longer inviting reporters to parties in his vagina-studded loft, we hear! *(A single tear)* More »
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Comment by Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Nouriel is far better looking, intelligent, and global than Krugman and Denton and Henry Kissinger mooshed together. Probably a... 2 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Poster Boy-Friendly Ad Agency Happycorp: Dead? (Updated)
Thehappycorp is an edgy little ad agency that most recently made news for getting Poster Boy to remix some MOMA ads, and getting fired by MOMA for it. Now a tipster says everyone's been fired. More »
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Comment by ambitious: Nice to work with. Often funny. But I could see him coming off as douche-y (as per a few AgencySpy... more » | Other threads
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internal memos
Hachette: Outsourcing Departments, Cutting Freelance Pay
Just last week, Hachette cut pay across the board and increased work hours. Today employees got the memo below, telling them that "certain functions" in IT and finance are going to be outsourced by the end of the year. We also got a tip that Hachette is notifying freelancers that it's cutting their rates—by 3% in one case, although it may vary. More »
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Comment by elinorwhyme: Back in the days when companies still gave employees Christmas gifts (the mid to late '90s), Hachette gave us all... 2 Responses | Other threads
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gossip
Peter Kaplan vs. Jared Kushner
Longtime New York Observer editor Peter Kaplan is leaving the paper to, okay, "spend more time with the family," but why did he really quit? Perhaps...he'd had enough of rich young NYO owner Jared Kushner? More »
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Comment by Nic Fit: What could be better than working for a rich kid half your age? 2 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Jared Kushner Trying to Exit the New York Observer?
New York Observer owner and boy wonder Jared Kushner just bought a ("sexy") new $3.2 million apartment. In other news, we hear he'd like out of that paper. If only. More »
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Comment by karion: I've said it before and I will say it again - he looks like Knox Overstreet from Dead Poets Society. 1 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Surface Magazine: Dead or Dying?
Surface magazine popped up on our inaugural chart of print media's worst late payment offenders. Is that because the magazine is dead? [UPDATED below] More »
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Comment by MisterHippity: Ok, we need some law-savvy commenter to weigh in this "Quadra isn't responsible for Surface's debts" thing. Sounds fishy to... 2 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Pulitzer Rumor Mill: NYT Wins For Spitzer Coverage
It's Pulitzer day! Our first wild Pulitzer rumor: that the NYT won the 'Breaking News' category for its Eliot Spitzer scandal coverage (sexy!). Heard more Pulitzer rumors? Email us, or put them in the comments. More »
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Kari ferrell
Hipster Grifter Spotted; May Still Be in Brooklyn
A tipster has come through with the first solid intelligence on hipster grifter Kari Ferrell's whereabouts since news of her criminal exploits broke yesterday. She's allegedly still right here in Brooklyn! More »
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Comment by Queen of the Passive Aggressives: Dump this chic. I want Tionna Smalls back. 10 Responses | Other threads
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rumormonger
Esquire Is Getting Nervous
Esquire's ad revenue dropped 22% in the first quarter, which actually put it above average. But we hear that the magazine's staff, and its corporate overlords, are on edge. There was a meeting yesterday [UPDATED]... More »
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Comment by Cecil's Wielder: That new issue with the rearrangable (rearrangeable?) cover was pretty week. It's like Stacey Greenrock Woods isn't even trying anymore.... 3 Responses | Other threads
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