Adweek news editor Alex Koppelman announced via Twitter that he is leaving the more-than-a-trade-mag for the New Yorker, where he will be associate online news editor. A few minutes later, fellow news editor Brian Braiker announced he would be leaving for the same post at the US office of the Guardian. Mr. Koppelman Read More
After weeks of speculation in the New York Post, a denial in WWD, and some confident tweets, Michael Wolff is leaving his post as editorial director of Adweek, Prometheus Media announced on the trade magazine's website today. Executive editor Jim Cooper will oversee day to day operations of Adweek. “We are Read More
The New York Post says media columnist Keith Kelly is on vacation, but it appears he found time to contribute reporting to today's article, "Staff Cries Wolff," which says anonymous Adweek executives are considering not renewing editorial director Michael Wolff's contract next month, citing his reportedly brusque management and loose spending practices. Read More
"If you want to make an omelet you have to break some eggs," e5 Global Media CEO Richard Beckman told The New York Times Tim Arango. Mr. Beckman was explaining his decision to tap Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Wolff to run his company's Adweek Media Group.
Mr. Wolff, who is known for getting into Read More
Richard Beckman hasn't been shy about trying to hire big names for E5 Global Media. He tapped Janice Min to run The Hollywood Reporter (that's gone well, in sort of an awesome low-brow way). He was trying to get Richard Johnson from the New York Post earlier this summer, but Mr. Johnson couldn't Read More
Wired's buzzed-about "The Web Is Dead" cover story went live on its website today, and there's a fair amount of content to sift through. The issue includes dueling commentaries from editor-in-chief Chris Anderson and Vanity Fair columnist Michael Wolff on who is to blame for the Web's "demise" — to get this out of Read More
This weekend, The New York Times Op-Ed page published contributions from Tony Judt and his fifteen-year-old son Daniel. On no apparent factual basis, Michael Wolff announced that Judt had fabricated his son's writing.
Today the younger Judt takes to the internet to respond. In a piece for the Daily Beast, he writes:
Mr. Read More
On the morning of Monday, May 17, a Web site called DNAinfo.com published a story about a rooster named Napoleon Bonaparte and two hens, named Lucy and Apple. The story was a classic nugget of neighborhood reporting: a concise anecdote about how officials had made life better for an abandoned bird, which spoke to Read More
Michael Wolff says that Page Six items about his affair with 28-year-old Victoria Floethe were planted by Rupert Murdoch's New York Post on the Web site Cityfile as revenge for unfavorable portrayal of the News Corp. chairman in The Man Who Owns the News.
In an interview with The Guardian Mr. Woff suggests that Mr. Read More
"Maybe you're even reading [this column] on your smartphone or Kindle,” speculated Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel in a blog post introducing the redesigned TheNation.com, which went live last night. “It's now far more likely you found us on Twitter than in a bookstore, and you might be following my blog Read More
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 sky.
It was bad. There are only two things that can happen after a hugely 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 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.
She had one hour, she warned, before she had to run out and meet Daily Candy founder Dany Levy and socialite Gigi Howard for 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. Surrounded by flickering television screens, mobile phones 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 site.
The article is about how journalist-turned-private equity investor Steve Rattner's wife was pulled over for a D.U.I. But, for some reason, the story disappeared. The New York Times, Read More
