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Last Friday, while Manhattan suffered through another desperately slushy storm, the 57-year-old financier Steven Rattner was holed up inside his family’s Westchester horse farm. There were no taxis to splash through icy curbside puddles. The snow fell from the pretty white... READ MORE»
This morning, Danah Boyd was spitting out the social media Kool-Aid at Personal Democracy Forum. "Many of us believe that technologies can be these great equalizers," said Ms. Boyd, a social media researcher for Microsoft and fellow of the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, during her keynote speech at the Jazz at Lincoln Center auditorium.... READ MORE»
Gossip writer Paula Froelich opened the front door to her one-bedroom Soho apartment on a recent evening, wearing a flattering emerald dress with puffy sleeves and woolly, moccasin-style slippers.... READ MORE»
Last night, on April 20, Michael Wolff, the Vanity Fair columnist and founder of Newser, was sitting on a chair—arms folded, legs crossed—on the third floor of the Time Warner Center while a downpour rumbled outside.... READ MORE»
Today on Newser, Michael Wolff writes about a New York Daily News story that appeared back in October, but then—whooosh!—disappeared from the News' Web... READ MORE»
One week after Tina Brown launched the Daily Beast back in October, Michael Wolff, the Vanity Fair columnist and the founder of Newser, gave a typically tart assessment of his new competitor. “She’s not a news aggregator, although that is her pretense for doing something Web-like,” he said to The Observer at the time. “In fact, she’s just an old magazine hack.” He was right, partly: In the 110 days since it launched, we’ve watched... READ MORE»
We've heard quite a bit about Michael Wolff's feuds this week—including one with Conrad Black too!—but in case you haven't had enough, here's one more: In today's edition of The Observer, we mention an anecdote we reported first last week: Michael Wolff invited 50 people from News Corporation to the party for his biography of Rupert Murdoch, and he said that none of them responded to the invite except for Col Allan. Mr. Wolff told... READ MORE»
Earlier this morning, Media Mob spoke to Newser.com founder Michael Wolff, whose recently published Rupert Murdoch biography took a beating today at the hands of an angry Judith Regan in the New York Daily News. Mr. Wolff wondered aloud why after more than a year of refusing to talk to press, Ms. Regan had chosen this moment to "get back in the game." He speculated that Ms. Regan's sudden willingness to go on the... READ MORE»
Michael Wolff is scratching his head over why after more than a year of staying almost entirely off the record, his old pal Judith Regan—whom he's known since their undergraduate days at Vassar when she was a "pretty, plumpish hippie"—is trying to get all this attention suddenly by telling the New York Daily News she's going to destroy him for the way he portrayed her in his recent biography of her old boss Rupert... READ MORE»
Volatile publisher Judith Regan on Michael Wolff and his portrayal of her in his recent The Man Who Owns the News: "He's grossly irresponsible. I'm going to sue him personally, so he'll have to spend his own money. He projects his own perverted view of the world on everyone else. He is consumed with hatred, vitriol and pathological envy." [R&M] Mort Zuckerman and charities run by Steven Spielberg and Elie Wiesel were among those ripped... READ MORE»
Michael Wolff invited fifty people from News Corp to his book party last night celebrating his biography of Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, at Milk Studios in West Chelsea, but none of them showed. "None of them RSVP'd, none of them said yes or no," he said last night, while speaking to a reporter, Gabriel Snyder from Gawker, Gawker czar Nick Denton and David Carey, the group president of Condé Nast. We couldn't... READ MORE»
Ah, now that Michael Wolff has released his new biography on Rupert Murdoch, The Man Who Owns the News, it was just about time for him to babble some highly quotable comment and drum up some press for it: like, say, "MySpace users are [expletive] cretins." His friend, Jon Fine of BusinessWeek, took the author out to dinner and discussed a subject he doesn't go into depth in his new book: MySpace. Apparently, Mr. Murdoch and... READ MORE»
While we had him on the phone talking about Rupert Murdoch, we thought we'd ask Michael Wolff what he thought of The Daily Beast, the new Web site from Tina Brown that is in plain competition with Newser.com, the news aggregator site that Mr. Wolff started last year. Mr. Wolff first shared his thoughts on The Daily Beast back in April, when he told Gawker that he didn't expect much out of Ms. Brown because... READ MORE»
Rupert Murdoch trusted Michael Wolff to write a nice book about him, but then Mr. Wolff went and wrote all about how Mr. Murdoch ridicules Fox News and is embarrassed of Roger Ailes. Mr. Murdoch got a copy of Mr. Wolff's book, The Man Who Owns The News—which comes out in six weeks—through a well-placed pal in Europe, and now he's gone public in the pages of The New York Times with his objections. Tim... READ MORE»
How do rumors get started? They get started, apparently, by journalists who seek to connect with powerful sources, according to Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff, who shares an excerpt from his upcoming Rupert Murdoch biography in the October issue of the magazine. In Tuesdays with Rupert, Mr. Wolff writes: [Mr. Murdoch] may be among the biggest gossips in New York. In the months of interviewing him, I found that the most reliable way to hold his interest... READ MORE»
