Carrpetbagging: Goodbye to Old Hats
The day after writing up "The Rise and Fall of Media," David Carr hands over his Carpetbagger blog to younger person and new-media professional Melena...
The day after writing up "The Rise and Fall of Media," David Carr hands over his Carpetbagger blog to younger person and new-media professional Melena...
Nine months later, that cartoon likening President Obama to a dead chimpanzee continues to plague the New York Post. Yesterday, another former reporter sued the tabloid for racial discrimination, citing the cartoon as evidence that the paper...
Today The Times explores issues of identity and authenticity in the police world. For example: it turns out many police officers carry fake badges--"dupes"--to avoid losing the actual ones. The practice is widespread and longstanding but against...
Your morning papers gin up a little controversy on an otherwise slow sports day. The newsiest story is that the Nets seem to have found an interim captain for their Titanic season. General Manager Kiki Vandeweghe, master of...
Spotted: Jay-Z. hanging out at Goldman Sachs. This is what's in Ruth Reichl's...
Tomorrow, Bloomberg officially takes over BusinessWeek, and, having cleaned house for Josh Tyrangiel—its young new editor—one might expect him to fill his stable of columnists with all sorts of fresh young faces. One would be wrong. Today, on...
As Rudy Giuliani slowly mulls a Senate bid, churns the rumor mill, and soaks in the positive poll numbers of an undeclared candidate who hasn't held office in seven years, conservatives are getting...
It turns out that women are somewhat more likely than men to use sites like Facebook and Twitter--to talk and talk, presumably, as ladies are wont to...
The latest from the Capitol:...
The PBS news program formerly known as "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," now "PBS NewsHour," is launching a fresh effort to keep pace with digital media. The New York Times chronicles these developments in an article with all...
The New York Times' Washington bureau keeps shrinking. Politico reports that Stephen Labaton and Neil A. Lewis will each take a buyout offer--a month after Bill Keller met with the bureau, and a year after Linda Greenhouse...
Back when Carolyn Maloney was considering a challenge to incumbent Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Ms. Maloney compared a primary to the Iranian elections and said "New Yorkers deserve the right to vote, the right to make their own...
The Times introduced its two-page Chicago supplement on the 20th, and the local-news gambit has spurred "a new-fangled newspaper war" with the Chicago Tribune, according to the Chicago...
Brooke Astor's "swindling son" is trying to avoid jail, writes the Post. Sources tell the paper that Anthony Marshall will be filing a motion asking the judge to dismiss the first-degree grand larceny charges against him, based...
Two big stories in your sports pages this morning, and they're both about coaches trying to connect with young...