Jasper Goldman, a planner at the BrooklynSpeaks-affiliated Municipal Art Society told The Real Estate that each of the coalition's 12 members makes its own decisions on lawsuits, but that, in general, the coalition favored other approaches. (One member, the Boerum Hill Association, did, in fact, join DDDB's recent complaint on the environmental Read More
The Wall Street Journal news staff can live with occasional opposition from the paper’s editorial page. What it can’t live with is the editorial page’s support. “People feel like we’re walking around with knives in our backs,” one news staffer said. “We rely on our editors to stick up for us. There’s really a feeling Read More
“The whole age of the soft interview is gone,” Janice Min said. Ms. Min, 36, is approaching her third anniversary as editor of Us Weekly. She ascended to the job in July 2003, the same month that George W. Bush, savoring a quick and tidy army-on-army victory, dared Iraqi insurgents to “Bring ’em on.” Ms. Read More
On June 20, page B2 of The New York Times carried a story by City Hall reporter Sewell Chan, giving the results of an audit of the city’s stray-animal-care contractor. Page B4 carried two Sewell Chan metro briefings, one about bill signings by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and one about the City Council Speaker’s new Read More
“We don’t consider ourselves an alumni magazine in the traditional sense,” said Bom Kim, Harvard class of ’00 and the founder and president of 02138 magazine. Mr. Kim’s embryonic magazine—named for the Harvard Square ZIP code—has nonetheless mastered one of the traditional roles: putting the touch on alumni. His principal backer is Atlantic Media boss Read More
“We don’t consider ourselves an alumni magazine in the traditional sense,” said Bom Kim, Harvard class of ’00 and the founder and president of 02138 magazine.
Mr. Kim’s embryonic magazine—named for the Harvard Square ZIP code—has nonetheless mastered one of the traditional roles: putting the touch on alumni. His principal backer is Atlantic Media boss Read More
Over Memorial Day weekend, New York Times metro reporter Paul von Zielbauer called his mother to tell her about his new assignment: Next month, he’ll be going to the Baghdad bureau. “She freaked out and she hung up,” Mr. von Zielbauer said, “and turned on the TV and saw what happened to the CBS News Read More
Over Memorial Day weekend, New York Times metro reporter Paul von Zielbauer called his mother to tell her about his new assignment: Next month, he’ll be going to the Baghdad bureau.
“She freaked out and she hung up,” Mr. von Zielbauer said, “and turned on the TV and saw what happened to the CBS News Read MoreAnna Wintour was not pleased with what she saw on the cover. The Vogue editor is famously choosy about her covers, but this was someone else’s: the front page of the May 3 Women’s Wear Daily.
Two days before, she had hosted the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—the annual live, glittery Read MoreThe news business is not a happy place these days. America’s big-city newspapers have been battered by sliding circulation, job cuts, plummeting stock prices and journalism scandals that sent the cable news shouters into a tizzy. Over at the three broadcast networks, it’s not any better: Nightly ratings have skidded to historic lows, and Read More
The news business is not a happy place these days. America’s big-city newspapers have been battered by sliding circulation, job cuts, plummeting stock prices and journalism scandals that sent the cable news shouters into a tizzy. Over at the three broadcast networks, it’s not any better: Nightly ratings have skidded to historic lows, and the Read More
Anna Wintour was not pleased with what she saw on the cover. The Vogue editor is famously choosy about her covers, but this was someone else’s: the front page of the May 3 Women’s Wear Daily. Two days before, she had hosted the Costume Institute Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art—the annual live, glittery Read More
Who won’t be the next managing editor of Time magazine? Michael Kinsley, for starters.
Last month, Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey met with Mr. Kinsley for two hours at a Washington, D.C., hotel and asked if he would be interested in taking over Time’s managing editorship. Mr. Kinsley—the peripatetic ex-chief of The New Read More
Who won’t be the next managing editor of Time magazine? Michael Kinsley, for starters. Last month, Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey met with Mr. Kinsley for two hours at a Washington, D.C., hotel and asked if he would be interested in taking over Time’s managing editorship. Mr. Kinsley—the peripatetic ex-chief of The New Read More
Does The New York Times need a change of ownership? On April 18, Morgan Stanley portfolio manager Hassan Elmasry launched a shareholder protest against The Times’ corporate structure, calling for the abolition of the two-tier stock system that gives the Sulzberger family control of the company. Over the last several months, a different version of Read More
