In your springy Thursday media column: Nir Rosen and Jeffrey Goldberg deserve each other, turnover and understanding at the New York Times, Essence weaves, Helen Thomas regrets nothing, and a Meet the Press veteran passes away.
• The epic mess at NBC continues: The last-place network is now thinking above moving Jay Leno to a 11:35pm-12:05am time slot and then having Conan O'Brien follow him for a full hour. But no deal has been reached, and there's still a possibility that Conan will abandon ship. [NYT, LAT, BN, NYT]
• Rudy Giuliani is…
Did you know Arianna Huffington's godson is so afraid of Gawker, he can't say its name aloud on Twitter? Or that Ruth Reichl can be bought? The things one learns from the media's Twitter addicts:
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!
This crosslinked and multiplatform new social interactive online media world is causing actual respected media outlets to fuck up. No question about it. Exhibit one: The national paper of record has allowed its core purpose of covering the news to evolve and extend to the point that this totally incomprehensible short…
Is prolific New York Times golden boy Sewell Chan hiding something in his trash? Like maybe comments critical to his CityRoom blog posts? According to one of his readers, who blogs over at Young Manhattanite, Chan "pretty much cribbed entirely" his post today about MetroCard makeovers from design blog A Brief…
Thousands of Viacom's permalancers and contract employees have been encouraged to walk out and rally today at 3 p.m., in protest of the terms of their new contracts. N.B.: we rebut this announcement a little. The Times and the Post and others certainly have been alerted, and no doubt they'll finally show up today, but…
Trend story queen Jenny 8. Lee joins her Hunter College High School chum Sewell Chan on the Times City Room blog. God they must be sick of each other—first high school, then Harvard, then the Times? Their fellow schoolboy Nick Confessore had better stick tight to his Albany beat, else he gets shuffled over too and is…
Joe "Private Dancer" Sexton sent out a memo to his Metro staff this morning about City Room, the new blog headed up by Times favorite son Sewell Chan. Things are going swimmingly! Except it seems that some reporters need more than a gentle nudge to start contributing: "Expect that Sewell and Patrick and Jim and Lexi…
Last evening, the staff of the New York Times bid their old building at 229 West 43rd St. one final farewell. Staffers were allowed to bring one guest and were asked to bring their own food and wine (beer and soft drinks were readily available), though it turned out that Pinch had sprung for a whole bunch of pizza.…
Sewell Chan's long-awaited New York Times City Room "news blog" launches; promises that "the emphasis here will be on reporting, not punditry or snarky commentary." [City Room/NYT]
We're starting to suspect that the New York Times is just trying to give the rest of its staff additional reasons to talk about Sewell Chan behind his back, because really, how much more do they need to be reminded that he's been anointed the golden child? Today the entire staff received a memo on "diversity…
Today the New York Times held its "Throw Stuff at Bill" (that would be Keller!) meetings—one this morning and two this afternoon. We got a report about the early afternoon session, and learned that the future of the Times is all about Sewell Chan, among other things.
Seems as though not everyone on the Metro desk possesses the same alacrity of mind, and typing skills, as the recently departed Sewell Chan. (Departed for NYT blog-land, that is! Not departed-departed.) Anyway, things have gotten so bad that Metro Editor Joe Sexton was inspired to send out a memo to his underlings…
We're starting to understand why Sewell Chan voluntarily gave up his reporter position on the metro desk at the Times: Collecting bylines just wasn't enough. The man needs to be heard. How else to explain today's Empire Zone blog post on possibly one of the boringest topics in the universe, a blogger gathering? In …
Reporting wunderkind Sewell Chan notes the following quote from Mayor Bloomberg in the current New York mag profile: "What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?" Chan compares this with earlier accounts that put the mayor's height at 5-feet-10. (We've seen the…
Today's Observer calls attention to Times metro reporter Sewell Chan's signal accomplishment of the last year: 422 bylines, nearly 100 more than his closest competitor and more than twice the total for most other reporters. What we can't quite decide is whether Gabe Sherman's piece is designed to celebrate Chan's…
