Former General Maxim- us and Details editor Mark Golin is returning to the magazine world-but it won't be as the next editor of Rolling Stone. Starting in June, Mr. Golin will go to work at Time Inc., helping the staid publisher develop new titles.
Mr. Golin is already part of the Time Inc. family, sort of. Read MoreWASHINGTON, DC-Last year's White House Correspondents Dinner was a party in denial. Held five months into President George W. Bush's term, the dinner was marred by the bitterness from Florida lingering in the ballroom.President Bush treated the media extravaganza likeanecessary evil. ColinPowell, Donald Rumsfeld and Condoleezza Rice didn't even show up. The big guests were Read More
There is no conflict, James Truman said. He was referring to his recent month-long retreat in Woodstock with a pair of Tibetan Buddhist teachers, and whether or not it clashed with his role as editorial director of Condé Nast.
"You want to find a contradiction between my post-retreat self and the magazines that I oversee," Mr. Read MoreBefore Tina Brown makes her next career move, she must first settle her contract with her defunct Talk magazine. Though Ms. Brown has publicly declared an interest in working for Talk Miramax Books, the company's publishing arm, sources say that Ms. Brown and Harvey Weinstein, the co-chairman of Miramax Films, are currently trying to figure Read More
Seven Pulitzers. They didn't expect that haul even within The New York Times.
"How many could they possibly give us?" a Times source wondered the week before the Pulitzers were awarded on April 8. "Would they go as high as five or six for one paper? They deliberately don't want to do that." But they Read MoreDespite all the speculation that Sept. 11 would awaken today's
magazine editors from their dreamy haze of celebrity puffery and smiley service writing, when the industry convenes at the Waldorf-Astoria on May 1 to present the National Magazine Awards, the winners will be drawn from a list of finalists in which reporting on terrorism or war Read MoreAs Tom Friedman told it in his Feb. 17 New York Times Op-Ed column, he and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, were in the middle of a long, off-the-record conversation over dinner when the de facto leader of the wealthiest Arab nation mentioned that he agreed with Mr. Friedman's Read More
When New York Times Magazine editor Adam Moss first heard that a contract writer named Michael Finkel may have taken some liberties in a Nov. 18 profile of an African teenager named Youssouf Male, he hoped he wasn't about to unravel the next case of a young, talented reporter who, for some reason, decided to Read More
This has been a rough season in the print media, but among those
who watch closely, few were surprised by the deflation and slow settling to ground of the grand balloon known as Talk . For like some turn-of-the-century hot-air balloon-the kind with gilded gondolas and loud gas jets filling their air chambers-there was something unwieldy Read MoreLachlan Murdoch has a childhood photograph of himself hanging
behind his desk at the News Corporation headquarters on Sixth Avenue. In the photo, he's 8 years old and dressed as a paper boy in a street-urchin cap. He's pretending to hawk a copy of the New York Post. Today, Lachlan Murdoch has a very real and Read MoreIt should have been obvious that the marriage of Oprah Winfrey
and Jonathan Franzen was headed for trouble. Ms. Winfrey, of course, is the heartland priestess of the soccer-mom set, the you-go-girl mogul whose dewy chat show is one of the most successful daytime television programs in history. Mr. Franzen, a Mid westerner by birth, is Read MoreAfter a month and a half of intense terrorism coverage in The New York Times , tensions are flaring between new executive editor Howell Raines and the paper's fabled Washington, D.C., bureau, sources at the paper said.
Historically, The Times has given its Washington bureau-the fabled former power base of James Reston and Max Frankel, which Read MoreAfter a month and a half of intense terrorism coverage in The New York Times , tensions are flaring between new executive editor Howell Raines and the paper's fabled Washington, D.C., bureau, sources at the paper said.
Historically, The Times has given its Washington bureau-the fabled former power base of James Reston and Max Frankel, which Read MoreThere was no honeymoon for Howell Raines, the new executive
editor of The New York Times . Six days after taking over for Joseph Lelyveld on Sept. 5, Mr. Raines -the paper's hard-charging former editorial-page editor and Washington bureau chief-was tossed into directing The Times ' coverage of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington Read MoreTina Brown finally got a Clinton on her payroll.
Former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, 21, has agreed to write a story for Talk Magazine about her experiences during the World Trade Center attack, a source at the magazine said. "Chelsea Clinton is pursuing a piece for us related to the World Trade Center disaster," the Talk Read More
