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The American Society of Magazine Editors announced their Ellie award finalists this morning. Unsurprisingly, National Geographic, New York, and The New Yorker racked up the most nominations. But please join us in congratulating first-time nominee Garden and Gun, our favorite magazine that we never knew... READ MORE»
In today's Washington Post, Howard Kurtz brings to your attention: New York magazine. While it seems like a big, fat, pegless loveletter to Adam Moss' New York (it's sexy, it's smart, it's local, it's broadly appealing), the piece ends on a melancholy... READ MORE»
Owner Bruce Wasserstein may have died last week, but New York magazine won't be sold. Ad Age reports that an internal memo circulated yesterday informed employees there would be "no change" in ownership and that a Wasserstein family trust would continue to control New York... READ MORE»
In light of the sudden death of Bruce Wasserstein, what is going to happen to New York Magazine? The magazine is owned by a family trust, not by Lazard or any of Mr. Wasserstein’s other holding companies. Mr. Wasserstein's children, according to reports, include Ben, Pam, Scoop, Jack and... READ MORE»
Bruce Wasserstein--hostile-takeover artist, chief of Lazard, owner of New York magazine, Harvard benefactor, brother of playwright Wendy Wasserstein--has died at 61. He was hospitalized last weekend for heart... READ MORE»
New York magazine's general manager of digital media Michael Silberman told the Observer last month that New York Media's online restaurant and menu listings site, MenuPages.com, was likely expand to more cities soon. Today, MenuPages.com announced site launches for London and Paris--their first overseas... READ MORE»
This past weekend, Arianna Huffington was in San Francisco for a little tech tour. On Friday, she visited Twitter’s home base, where she noshed on tacos and vegan cheese with co-founder Biz Stone. Later, she palled around with Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg at the social network’s Palo Alto headquarters and discussed HuffPo Social News, a new feature on her “Internet newspaper” that allows users to connect with Facebook friends and see which HuffPo articles... READ MORE»
Last week, The Observer took a look at New York magazine's covers, specifically, their tendency to whisper. This week, we were struck (ouch!) by the image of a fist, which was used to illustrate "The Rage of the Rich". (How far we've come since November 22, 2004's "Filthy Stinking Rich" cover showed a man literally bathing in cash.) Talk about... READ MORE»
There’s something you can’t help but notice about New York’s cover lines these... READ MORE»
In this week's Observer, New York Magazine editor Adam Moss talked to John Koblin about his use of coverlines, telling him, "A piece of music can’t all be big moments. It needs big moments and small moments." And sometimes, it even... READ MORE»
Dan Abrams wants in on the media blogging and aggregation business. For the past several months, Mr. Abrams—the chief legal analyst for NBC News and head of the nascent media strategy firm Abrams Research—has been meeting with various New York-based media reporters, editors, and bloggers about the potential editorial venture. To date, nobody has signed on for the... READ MORE»
As you probably already know, Bernard Madoff is heading to... READ MORE»
Lots of people seem to be thinking about The New York Times today. Or is it just us? The future of the country's leading newspaper—which as recently as early January was called into doubt by The Atlantic's Michael Hirschorn—is touched on in this week's Time magazine cover story by Walter Isaacson, which was updated online after it appeared late last week with following: Currently a few newspapers, most notably the Wall Street Journal, charge for their... READ MORE»
In this week's New York Magazine, Chris Smith tackles the implosion of Caroline Kennedy's effort for the Senate and while picking apart what went wrong, he points to the disastrous interview that she did with the Times back in December. That interview, and the weeks of tough coverage in The Times, was apparently a rallying cry for Joe Sexton's 'Metro' crew. Writes Mr. Smith: Kennedy also smacked headlong into a newly emboldened Times city staff. 'We've... READ MORE»
Soon after Lehman Brothers fell, and New York business writers found themselves smack in the middle of the biggest story of their careers, Fortune’s managing editor, Andy Serwer, convened a staff meeting on the second floor of their Sixth Avenue home. He wanted to say thank you! Not only did the magazine have a series of timely covers—Hank Paulson was on one, and they had a profile of AIG’s former chief Hank Greenberg coming... READ MORE»
