At 9:55 a.m. this morning, The Daily Beast's Howard Kurtz broke the news on Twitter that Frank Foer was stepping down as editor of The New Republic. Twelve minutes later, he posted a micro-obituary of the man's tenure. "Foer out: His worst moment as New Republic editor was running unproven allegations from soldier in Iraq Read More
Greg Veis, current editor of TNR.com, is off to join the ranks at The New York Times Magazine, according to Daily Intel. A memo informed New Republic staff members earlier today that he will start at the magazine in December as a front-of-the-book editor.
The hire is Hugo Lindgren's second since taking over the Read More
If the rest of the nation has made it their cause to extol Freedom with every last breath, then The New Republic seems to have taken the exact opposite approach. All signs point to them self-righteously bashing the novel until the conversation about it is over.
After writing an inflammatory statement on his blog The Spine, Marty Peretz, the editor of The New Republic and former Harvard University professor, has come under fire from a variety of people — including members of the Harvard faculty.
Now, The Harvard Crimson is reporting that Peretz may have been Read More
New Republic editor-in-chief Martin Peretz said something sort of mean about Liza Minnelli yesterday and then took it back this morning.
Mr. Peretz quoted a column yesterday on his blog from The Daily Beast's Tunku Varadarajan in which Mr. Varadarajan compared John McCain to Liza Minnelli. It was really no big deal, just a few Read More
Executives at The New Republic have announced that starting tomorrow they will start charging for premium content on the magazine's Web site. The new premium service will be called TNR Society.
According to the press release, much of what's currently available on TNR.com will remain open to the non-paying public.
More from the release:
For $44.97, TNR Society Read More
David Margolick, the ex-New York Times star and Vanity Fair contributor who found himself without a job after Portfolio folded, has a new home: Newsweek.
Mr. Margolick has signed a contract to write four to five stories a year for the newly re-imagined newsweekly, said Jon Meacham, the editor.
"He’s a Read More
Noam Scheiber, the columnist and senior editor at The New Republic, is writing a book about the Obama administration’s handling of the economic crisis. It will be published by the flagship imprint of Simon & Schuster and overseen by editor in chief Priscilla Painton, who acquired the book at auction last month. According to Ms. Read More
Hey, Joe and Mika, make some room for Sam Tanenhaus.
According to an internal New York Times announcement, the paper's Book Review and Week in Review editor will be appearing every Friday at 7:45 a.m. on MSNBC's Morning Joe to preview that week's Book Review and Week in Review sections. According to Read More
Marty Peretz has teamed up with former investment banker Larry Grafstein and a small group of other investors in attempt to buy The New Republic, said a person familiar with the discussions.
Mr. Peretz, the former owner of TNR and its current editor in chief, sold his stake in 2007 to CanWest, the troubled Canadian communications company Read More
In 1993, Rolling Stone writer Hugh Gallagher forced himself to watch MTV for seven days straight. Mr. Gallagher's reaction to the experience was easily summed up in the headline to his story: "An Experiment in Terror."
In this week's New Republic, Isaac Chotiner tries a similar (but less immersive) experiment as he watched 24 Read More
The New Republic performed a service for journalists and bloggers the world over by posting Jacob Weisberg's oft-cited March 12th 1990 article "The Veep's Keeper" in which he dubbed then-chief of staff to the vice president William Kristol "Dan Quayle's Brain." (Mr. Weisberg's article comes via a post by Christopher Orr on TNR's Read More
On the heels of Pastor Rick Warren's widely praised performance as the moderator of the recent faith-centric forum between Barack Obama and John McCain, Michael Schaffer argues in The New Republic that presidential debates, in general, might benefit by barring journalist-moderators from the stage.
"Since the debut of televised presidential debates in 1960, the Read More
Manny Farber, the idiosyncratic painter and film critic for The New Republic, The Nation, ArtForum and other publications, has died. He was 91.
According to The Times' William Grimes, Mr. Farber was "a quirky prose stylist with a barbed lance, responded to film viscerally. He despised what he called the 'art-infected' films of Read More
Writing on The New Republic's Plank blog, Zvika Krieger alerts us to the fact that Bush 41 "Drug Czar" and so-called "Bookie of Virtue" William Bennett and former Bush 43 special assistant David Kuo are launching a conservative answer to Slate. (This comes via Gawker.)
