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By Emily Witt 12/12/11 9:14am

New York Daily News Starts a Book Blog, Will Publish Old Photos of Truman Capote Naked

In yet another sign that lamentations about the death of the books coverage are only the bookish equivalent of the repressive hypothesis, the New York Daily News has started Page Views, a new blog devoted to books. Deputy op-ed editor Alexander Nazaryan writes, "You may not think of the tabloid as a particularly literary format, but we are going to challenge your assumptions of what constitutes literary/cultural reporting in this town." Read More

By Anna Sanders 11/15/11 10:33am

unsocial media

Mainstream News Organizations Aren’t Very Good At Using Twitter, Study Finds

The journalism community prides itself on its social media use, but a study released yesterday reveals that mainstream news organizations are using Twitter wrong, i.e. to advance their own material as opposed to engaging with readers and followers. Researchers from The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington University's School Read More

By Foster Kamer 11/08/11 2:24pm

LAYOFFS

NY Daily News Layoffs Massacre Continues: Two More Shown The Door, Bringing Total Count to 16

The bad news keeps coming at the New York Daily News. Another two staffers have been let go, and the rumor is that there are more to come. Read More

4 By Daniel D'Addario 7/25/11 1:34pm

Vanities

All that glitters is not gold. (Getty Images)

Leighton Meester, Gossip Girl‘s Becky Sharp

The Daily News reports that Leighton Meester has sued her mother for misappropriation of funds intended for the care of Ms. Meester's ill brother (Ms. Meester's mother allegedly used the money for plastic surgery). While this is a grave matter if Ms. Meester's claims are accurate, our understanding of Ms. Meester as Read More

By Reid Pillifant 2/17/11 2:30pm

Moves

Daily News’ Terror Scribe Joins Peter King’s Court; ‘It’s Kind of Like Working In a Think Tank’

Earlier this month, James Gordon Meek resigned his position as the terrorism reporter for the New York Daily News--a post he had held for 8 of his 13 years on the beat--and accepted an offer to become a senior investigator on the House Committee on Homeland Security.

"It's a pretty intense period right now and the Read More

By Laura Kusisto 11/05/10 6:38pm

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Wine With That Burger, Brooklyn? Shake Shack Coming to Fulton Mall After All

409-415 Fulton Street

Get ready to stand in line, BroBos, because the first Shake Shack is indeed coming to Brooklyn.

The borough was abuzz after rumors circulated that it was getting its first Shack, on the ungentrifiable Fulton Mall, no less. Despite initial denials from Danny Meyer's Union Square Hospitality Read More

By Nate Freeman 9/23/10 10:23pm

Media Wars

Departures at Daily News; Healy, Goldschlag Out

Orla Healy, longtime features editor at the New York Daily News, called an early meeting today and asked that "more people than usual attend," "We hear he's been 'keeping his cards close to the vest' up until now, and this probably signals that he's ready to play a hand or two," Rovzar writes. "Or at Read More

By Zeke Turner 9/01/10 12:52pm

Gossip

‘Purgatory’ at Page Six: Taking the Gossip Beat’s Temperature

Page Six is still the gold standard. Gawker is stronger than ever. And gossip at the Daily News is ready to make a comeback.

The Village Voice's Joe Coscarelli and Foster Kamer survey the world of gossip reporting in their cover story this week, and suggest that as the playing field has become more crowded, the Read More

By Zeke Turner 8:02pm

Daily News CEO Marc Kramer Says Goodbye to Mort

New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman announced today in a memo to the paper's staff that CEO Marc Kramer is leaving the paper after more than four years.

Mr. Zuckerman has asked U.S. News & World Report CEO Bill Holiber to take over Mr. Kramer's responsibilities. According to the memo, Mr. Kramer is leaving Read More

By Dan Duray 7/27/10 1:22pm

Daily News Awkwardly Reunites Rescued Girl and Superhero

You may remember a heartwarming story from yesterday wherein an Afghan war veteran dived into New York harbor to save a woman who'd slipped from her ferry near Wall Street.

You may have thought that the story ended there. But no! The Daily News thought it was worthy of a follow-up Read More

By Zeke Turner 6/01/10 2:39pm

First Days

Frank DiGiacomo’s First Day of Dish at Gatecrasher

Today is Frank Digiacomo's first day running the Daily News gossip column Gatecrasher.

Mr. DiGiacomo's two main items took a look at mini-feuds between bold-faced names.

Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney hated Senator Kirsten Gillibrand so much that she gave Harold Ford Jr. her opposition research on Ms. Gillibrand. But they're pals now after cosponsoring legislation to get money and Read More

By Dan Duray 5/17/10 5:38pm

Cuomo's World

Vet Appointment: Examining Cuomo’s Running Mate Shortlist

The New York Daily News' Kenneth Lovett reports Monday that Andrew Cuomo is nearing his choice for lieutenant governor, despite the fact that Mr. Cuomo's campaign for governor has yet to be formally announced. The attorney general--currently running under a generic CUOMO 2010 banner--apparently wants to make his selection before next week's Democratic Read More

By John Koblin 3/24/10 12:27am

Newspaper Wars

Press-Boxed: WSJ Adds Sports Beats to Take on The Times

We can all list some of the well-documented ways that The Wall Street Journal has changed under Rupert Murdoch: More color on the front page! Snappier headlines! A women’s magazine! More politically conservative (maybe)!

But this is one we didn’t expect: The Journal is getting sportier!

The Journal’s New York sports section will assign beat reporters to Read More

By Molly Fischer 12/15/09 2:01pm

Cynical, Cynical Daily News Columnist Thinks New Post Columnist Got the Job as a Circulation Stunt

Proving that there are still journalism jobs for those with proper qualifications, Ashley Dupre became the Post's newest advice columnist this week.

Controversy ensued!

It seems that some people do not feel the former escort is in a position to give advice in print. The Daily News' Joanna Molloy, for one, Read More

By Molly Fischer 9/28/09 2:44pm

Crime Waves: Polanski, Monserrate

Roman Polanski was arrested this weekend in Switzerland on 1977 charges that he had sex with a 13-yeal-old girl; "why he would suddenly be arrested after flying in and out of Zurich without trouble for years flummoxed his Hollywood friends," says the Times. The Post says that Swiss authorities acted on Read More

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