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If (When?) Downie Hangs It Up, Who's Replacing Him at the Post?

John Koblin — Wed, 14 May 2008 13:47:21 -0400

The rumors are running wild in D.C. that sometime later this week, Post editor Leonard Downie will take a buyout and step down. A short-list of candidates is making its way around, and Michael Calderone at Politico sizes it up. read more »

Newsweeklies Considered, Again [Update]

John Koblin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:17:23 -0400

In the wake of 100+ job cuts at Newsweek, the Journal's Rebecca Dana parachutes down into the Newsweek and Time buildings to find out what's happening. read more »

Karl Rove's Newsweek Deal: Two Years, 16 Columns

John Koblin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:21:30 -0500

The terms of Karl Rove's contract with Newsweek: It's a 2-year-deal, 8 columns per year and 16 overall.

A Newsweek spokeswoman confirmed this to Media Mob; editor Jon Meacham had let it slip out on Feb. 7, when a Columbia J-school student asked him about Mr. Rove (and right before Mr. Meacham asked an entire lecture-room full of Columbia students why they didn't like Newsweek).

Rove to Write for Newsweek

Zachary Roth — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 13:35:25 -0500

Newsweek has hired Karl Rove as a contributor for the 2008 election. On Tuesday, the magazine announced that it had hired Markos Moulitsas, founder of the liberal blog The Daily Kos, in a similar role.

Newsweek press release after the jump... read more »

New Republic Critic Tumbles in Blog-land: My ‘Dumb Mistake’

Sheelah Kolhatkar — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 20:00:00 -0400

“I made a dumb mistake, and I’m very sorry I did it. read more »

Time M.E. Search: Meacham Declines; Okrent Advises

Observer Staff — Fri, 05 May 2006 11:06:02 -0400

Time Inc. editor in chief John Huey has reached out to Newsweek managing editor Jon Meacham to see if he would be interested in Time's managing-editor job, according to sources with knowledge of the search.

Reached by phone, Meacham declined to comment on any interactions with Huey, but said he has no plans to leave Newsweek.

"I'm extremely happy at Newsweek, where I intend to stay," Meacham said.

Time maintains that incumbent managing editor Jim Kelly's status has not changed. Huey has, however, sought the advice of former Time Inc. editor at large (and former New York Times public editor) Daniel Okrent on the search for Kelly's replacement, according to two sources.

Besides Meacham, sources have said Huey has also asked Michael Kinsley and Slate's Jacob Weisberg about their interest in the job. --Gabriel Sherman

Neocon Spirituality

Observer Staff — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:15:23 -0400

This morning on Meet the Press, Tim Russert had a table of religious experts and at the end said they just had enough time for each of them to give a twenty second message for people on Easter. Well, then the pastor on the remote said something about Jesus, Professor Seyed Hossein Nasr said something about common religious values the world over, Rabbi Michael Lerner said something about getting past nationalistic ideas of faith, Sister Joan Chittister said a few inspiring words about Growing with god, and then the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, a neoconservative, rattled on and on about God giving up his only son Jesus and what this means to all religions... He went on for a long time, over 30 seconds. So when Russert turned to the last guy on the panel, Jon Meacham of Newsweek, he had to apologize, but they were out of time.

Neuhaus had left out a basic spiritual value, unselfishness.