Room 9 bulletin: Popular City Hall reporter Stephanie Gaskell is quitting her job with the New York Post to go cover the war in Iraq as a freelancer, she told me. Gaskell, who covered Guantanamo Bay for the AP around 2002, is leaving on Friday night -- missing the Inner Circle show! -- and Read More
Did the editorial writers of the New York Post read the latest Qunnipiac poll? Read More
Mike Sitrick, a spokesperson for Ron Burkle, just released a statement regarding the news that Jared Paul Stern will not be charged. "The facts speak very clearly for themselves, as media reports on the contents of the tapes have demonstrated. "Mr. Burkle followed the government's instructions from the onset: From their directive that he record Read More
Jared Paul Stern has been notified that he will not be charged with a crime by the U.S. Attorney's office. Since last April, Mr. Stern, a former Page Six writer, has waited on word from any law enforcement office regarding allegations of extortion or blackmail due to his interactions with supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle. Joe Read More
The oft-criticized legislators up in Albany must be enjoying the spectacle of the press training its fire on... the press. The Times Union reported yesterday that the New York Bankers Association, a group that lobbies state lawmakers, paid the New York Post's veteran Albany man Fred Dicker for a speech earlier this month. A Read More
Hevesi recriminations continue. Albany DA's office denies leaking sensitive memo: "The last place in the world we would call was the New York Post." One Jersey mayor has an interesting strategy for closing his revenue gap. John McCain's 18-year-old son has enlisted in the Marine Corps. We should be hearing more about Read More
City Comptroller Bill Thompson reintroduced a shareholder resolution today calling on Wal-Mart to disclose its policy for using corporate money for political contributions. "Corporate executives should not feel free to use their company assets to advance any political objectives that are not shared by shareholders and the entire company. We are urging these companies to Read More
"Over the last five years, one media magnate-turned-politician Read More
Oct. 13, 2006
3:54 p.m. 5 pounds, 6 ounces Roosevelt Hospital “I’m going to be pregnant for another six weeks,” Ella Georgiades, an editor at the publishing house Palgrave Macmillan, groaned to a co-worker right before her water broke. She rushed home to her West Village three-bedroom (we thought those were an urban legend?), where her Read MoreJossip editor Corynne Steindler is leaving the celebrity and media site behind, to become a full-time reporter at the New York Post's Page Six. She will begin in early October. Steindler said: "Jossip's been an amazing experience, but the opportunity to report for Page Six is something I just couldn't pass up." Others were less Read More
Today's Page Six says that "Rudy Giuliani has made enemies among a group that should be solidly behind "America's mayor"—the Society of Former Special Agents—after canceling as their keynote speaker." Howard Rubenstein, who represents the New York Post, also represents the Former Special Agents of the FBI. (He also works with the New York F.B.I. Read More
Bill Clinton doubts Hillary's chances in 2008. "I don't know if she can win if she runs." A CNN poll finds more Americans blame 9/11 on George Bush than on Clinton. Rudy Giuliani's title as America's Mayor comes under fire. The Uniformed Firefighters Association President Steve Cassidy says, "America's Mayor is a Read More
Since The Daily Show with Jon Stewart doesn't quite spoof New York politics often enough, Room 8 launched a daily video segment called Lunch Box, featuring some guy named Adam Green. Green sounds like an equal offender and gets the tone of most of the conversations I imagine are taking place in a Read More
