Slate, NPR, and Fast Company contributor Farhad "Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller" Manjoo has sold a book. This important development raises two very important questions: What is this book? And furthermore, can I see him read from it at SoHo's relentlessly charming and lovable independent bookstore, McNally Jackson? Read More
Former New Yorker managing editor Kate Julian (who most recently ran Slate's Double X) has been named a senior editor at The Atlantic. She will oversee the magazine's "Dispatches" section and edit features. Oh and her office is next to something called the Roanoke Room. What else do you need to know? Read More
This morning, a writer named Farhad Manjoo wrote an article for Slate called "Don't Support Your Local Bookseller." Mr. Manjoo called your local independent booksellers the "least efficient, least user-friendly, and most mistakenly mythologized local establishments you can find." Read More
Political superblogger Matthew Yglesias, currently of Think Progress and formerly of The Atlantic, will be narrowing his focus on the economy and economic policy in a new column on Slate's Moneybox, he announced today. Annie Lowrey vacated the position last month to join The New York Times Washington bureau. Mr. Yglesias starts at Slate Read More
Hey young college grads: Do you want to gain invaluable editorial experience at a reputable online magazine? Work with a great team of culture writers? Do you plan on never getting sick, needing a cavity filled, or requiring an eye exam? Congratulations, you are Clark Kent (though the glasses had us fooled), and Slate has an attractive editorial assistant position just for you:
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If you care, you've by now heard that Jack Shafer, the media critic laid off by Slate, was scooped up by Reuters. He will report to opinion editor James Ledbetter, according to the memo from Reuters editor in chief Steve Adler obtained by Romenesko. "Jack's arrival at Reuters adds to a rapidly strengthening opinion Read More
Former New York Governor, Attorney General, and CNN host Eliot Spitzer—who The Observer had a nice chat with last week over the recent rage directed at Wall Street's ratings agencies—is this week being sued for libel over a year-old column for Slate. Read More
On July 5, the New York Yankees were up 6-0 in the bottom of the sixth inning in an away game against the Cleveland Indians. Orlando Cabrera snapped the quiet with a sharp grounder between second and third that looked to be an easy base hit for the home team. The 37-year-old Derek Jeter, in his second game back after more than two weeks on the D.L., grabbed the ball as he spun in one fluid motion, like shine off a diamond, thunder-bolting a cross-field throw to Jorge Posada at first.
Mr. Cabrera was out by an inch. Read More
"No, Arianna can’t make it,” said the birthday boy. “But,” he continued, sipping his whiskey, “she sent me a birthday email today.” Arianna Huffington, it seems, doesn’t much make it out to Bed-Stuy on a Sunday night.
The birthday boy, a writer for the Huffington Post, had gathered his friends on the eve of Read More
When Chistopher Hitchens pontificates on the subject of beverage, it's a safe bet to assume it's concerning alcohol. Up until his diagnosis with cancer and subsequent chemo, Hitch would consume no less than a bottle of wine and few gulps of whiskey per day, he wrote in Hitch-22. And tales of larger excess are Read More
Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg wrote a memo to his staff today in response to this week's Observer cover story, a look at how the 14-year-old site is faring against new and ferocious competition. He takes exception to our piece on a number of fronts, which I'll explore here.
"I'm not sure how Read More
This morning, Slate Group editor Jacob Weisberg sent a staff-wide memo responding to the article by Nick Summers published in today's Observer. Wesiberg said that "while the facts in the article are mostly accurate, the thesis — that Slate's doing badly and that the Internet is passing us by — couldn't be farther off Read More
Slate's "Double X" decided to address the question recently raised by female authors of commercial fiction: does the New York Times Book Review give an excess of coverage to white, male writers? According to Slate's calculations, the answer to that question in recent years is clearly "yes":
We compared men to women Read More
Today's Slate article "Kanye West Has a Goblet" starts with a contradiction. The reporter begins by mentioning he's been invited to the rapper's Manhattan apartment, and can describe even the most trifling details, such as the firmness of the pillows and the angles of the walls, despite the fact that Kanye West has granted Read More
On July 30, Kevin Morrissey, the managing editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review, one of America's most respected and ascendant literary journals, took his own life, apparently unable to abide the pressures of his job. His suicide has since opened a debate on the issue of "workplace bullying" and called into question the integrity Read More
