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Gabriel Snyder

Off the Record

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 More

Reporters’ Party Makes George W. Bigger than Ozzy

WASHINGTON, 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

Truman’s Zen Retreat

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 More

Miramax Divorce: Tina Hires Fields, Showbiz Lawyer

Before 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

Times’ Pulitzers Create ‘Legend’ and Resentment

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 More

Magazine Jurors Find 9/11 Coverage Just Insufficient

Despite 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 More

Off The Record

As 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

Phony Slave Tale Causes Big Whup at Times Magazine

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

Talk Stops, To Stunned Silence

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 More

When Oprah Stomped on Franzen, It Revealed a Vast Culture Split

It 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 More

Times vs. Times : Old Feud Smokes As d.C. Bureau Fights 43rd St.

After 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 More

Times vs. Times : Old Feud Smokes As D.C. Bureau Fights 43rd St.

After 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 More

Moving News Troops: Reporters Head Off in First Media Wave

There 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 More