Joe Halderman, the CBS News producer accused of attempting to extort $2 million from CBS Late Show star David Letterman, will be headed to a Manhattan court on Tuesday morning for the first hearing in the criminal case against him.Will Mr. Halderman, as it is widely assumed, try and... READ MORE»
It appears Rupert Murdoch may not understand his own pay wall at the Wall Street Journal. "We have a wall, but it's not right to the ceiling," Mr. Murdoch tells Sky News. "You can get, usually, the first paragraph from any story - but if you're not a paying subscriber to WSJ.com all you get is a paragraph and a subscription... READ MORE»
A few weeks ago, Hearst Corp's Esquire announced that they'd debut a snazzy new "augmented reality" issue and be the first publication to take the relatively new technology into its pages. AR, the hot new trend in iPhone apps, layers data, images and video that users can interact with in... READ MORE»
Joe Halderman, the CBS News producer accused of attempting to extort $2 million from CBS Late Show star David Letterman, will be headed to a Manhattan court on Tuesday morning for the first hearing in the criminal case against him. Will Mr. Halderman, as it is widely assumed, try and reach a hasty plea agreement with prosecutors, beginning with Tuesday's motions hearing? That's unlikely, according to a source close to Mr.... READ MORE»
Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch told his staff this afternoon that he will be stepping down in April after five years on the job. Mr. Gourevitch, who is also a New Yorker staff writer, said in an interview that his decision to resign was motivated by a desire to focus his energies on his writing, and that his current book project, which is about Rwanda, is proving too time-consuming to allow for a successful balancing... READ MORE»
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Google Books has just launched a digitized magazine stand. In their never-ending quest to archive all media, from Web sites to books, Google is taking on the publishing world and scanning entire issues of magazines, ads and all. Most issues are two or three years old--or even a few decades... READ MORE»
Kyle Pope, formerly the number two editor at Conde Nast Portfolio, has been announced as the next editor of The New York Observer. Observer publisher Jared Kushner announced the appointment today. Editor Tom McGeveran, who announced last week that he will be leaving the paper at the end of the year, introduced Mr. Pope to the editorial staff at a meeting this... READ MORE»
Once again, the Yankees' championship run dominated the top 10 in New York. Credit Matsui. (1) FOX-5....World Series Game 4....3,442,000 (2) FOX-5....World Series Game 1....3,346,000 (3) FOX-5....World Series Game 2....3,112,000 (4) FOX-5....World Series Game 3....2,931,000 (5) FOX-5....NFL: Vikings beat Packers....1,322,000 (6) WABC-7....Dancing with the Stars....1,272,000 (7) WABC-7....Dancing with the Stars....992,000 (8) WCBS-2....60 Minutes....987,000 (9)... READ MORE»
Grand magazine launches may be a thing of the past, but at least we have the rebirth of BusinessWeek to watch. Media Decoder has a memo from chief content officer Norm Pearlstine (and integration leader Chris Walters) that outlines upcoming developments in Bloomberg BusinessWeek's... READ MORE»
The New York State Senate's chief information officer team just launched an early version of their Open Legislation Portal today.... READ MORE»
Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.... READ MORE»
Hedge fund billionaires and powerful financial editors turned out Tuesday night to celebrate the release of Gregory Zuckerman's The Greatest Trade Ever, which chronicles how John Paulson, a once-anonymous fund manager, bet against the housing bubble in 2007, winning big while nearly everyone else lost. One person, however, was noticeably absent from the night's festivities. "John is not happy," Mr. Zuckerman told The Observer as he signed books for friends. "On a personal level,... READ MORE»
Everybody wants to take off the days between Christmas and New Years Eve. So long as you get paid for them. Staff members at WNET.org are out of luck on the second count. The Observer has learned that senior managers at the WNET.org, PBS's flagship media provider in New York, which runs channel 13 and channel 21, told staff members yesterday that they would be required to take three days of unpaid leave at the end... READ MORE»
Condé Nast announced today that it has poached Susan Plagemann from Hearst and has made her the new publisher of Vogue. Ms. Plagemann has spent the better part of her career at Hearst. She's been the publisher of Marie Clare since 2004, she was the publisher of Cosmopolitan before that and worked as an advertising manager at Esquire even before that. She began her career at Condé Nast in advertising at Mademoiselle in the early... READ MORE»
Jon Bon Jovi kissed Ann Curry on the cheek. It was a chilly morning in mid-October outside the Today studios at Rockefeller Plaza. Ms. Curry was wearing a peacoat and dark stockings. Mr. Bon Jovi had on jeans and aviator sunglasses. Matt Lauer stood between them. They had... READ MORE»
Earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal drafted plans for a New York–only culture section. It didn’t take long for that project to be shelved, and Rupert Murdoch’s Journal decided to take on the city itself—with a New York–only news section that will cover everything you’d expect from a local newspaper: politics, news, sports and, yes, culture.... READ MORE»
Three former Wall Street investment analysts—Ryan Klenovich, 24, Jian Chai, 26, and Steve DeWald, 24—plan to save the magazine business with a Web site called Maggwire.com. “We’re going to do for magazines what iTunes did for music,” Mr. Klenovich, the start-up’s chief executive, told The Observer in an... READ MORE»
The New York Times’ interactive news technologies team has hired a new developer and … it’s a girl! Well, woman, really. Her name is Jacqui Maher and her first day on the job is Nov. 4. This is the 10-person team’s first and (so far) only female hire.... READ MORE»
If anything good is going to come out of the decimated print-media world, it will be elegiac newsroom photos from soon-to-be-former employees. Last year, Martin Gee posted the "Reduction in Force" series—a Flickr archive of of the San Jose Mercury News office as a shadow of its former self. Now, Kevin DeMaria has created a site memorializing "The Last Days of... READ MORE»
The Wall Street Journal will be hiring a small metro staff, says Media Decoder. The local news coverage would be part of The Journal's effort to create a New York edition, first reported here almost two months ago as a project that was focused mostly on increased arts... READ MORE»
On Thursday evening, on live TV, longtime WNBC-4 news anchor Sue Simmons made a somewhat surprising confession. Back in the '80s, she said, she would on occasion drink cocktails before anchoring the news. Eventually she stopped, she continued to explain, because she noticed the alcohol was making her eyes... READ MORE»
November 04, 2009
Condé Nast announced today that it has poached Susan Plagemann from Hearst and has made her the new publisher of Vogue.Ms. Plagemann has spent the better part of her... READ MORE »
November 09, 2009
Joe Halderman, the CBS News producer accused of attempting to extort $2 million from CBS Late Show star David Letterman, will be headed to a Manhattan court on Tuesday... READ MORE »
November 09, 2009
A few weeks ago, Hearst Corp's Esquire announced that they'd debut a snazzy new "augmented reality" issue and be the first publication to take the relatively new technology into... READ MORE »
“I’ll say the thing I’ve said about each previous Major Initiative announced by Mr. Murdoch—the glossy weekly magazine, the robust culture section, the daily sports section. We welcome competition.”
