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Bloomberg Talks Emanuel, Economy and Quirky Drinking Habit with Time
Could Bloomberg and Rahm Emanuel make a mayoral dynamic duo?
Chicago may not have elected Rahm Emanuel mayor quite yet, but that isn't stopping Bloomberg: Hizzoner talked about his support for the former White House chief of staff to Time this week in an interview that also covered Madoff, gun control, and Bloomberg's odd Read More
‘SNL’ Takes on Zuckerberg, Assange and Time [Watch]
Last week Time magazine chose Mark Zuckerberg as its Person of the Year, even though Julian Assange won the popular vote.
This week Assange answers back, in the form of Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader.
"Time magazine," says faux Assange, "Always on the cutting edge, discovering Facebook only weeks after your grandmother."
Assange runs down a Read More
Time Chooses Mark Zuckerberg Over Julian Assange For Person Of The Year
Time magazine has rejected the will of the people and selected Mark Zuckerberg as person of the year.
Julian Assange won the popular vote, but as the editors at Time remind us, Zuckerberg is something of rebel himself:
"Like two of our runners-up this year, Julian Assange and the Tea Party, Mark Zuckerberg doesn't have a Read More
Time Passes: Henry Luce III’s Sutton Place Duplex Sells for $7 M.
From atop his family's Time Magazine empire Henry (Hank) Luce III watched the latter half of the 20th century go by. But the view from his $7 million Sutton Place duplex was scarcely less thrilling.
Luce, who had three ex-wives and an even bigger collection of cast-iron toys, had plenty of space if he wanted to Read More
This Housing Time Cover Looks Like That Housing Time Cover
The cover of this week's Time, the Sept. 6 issue that says "Rethinking Homeownership" in very big letters, shows a nice yellow suburban American house against a deep blue sky. If you're the type to spend a lot of time in the magazine's nifty cover archives, it will remind you of something.
In Read More
Rick Stengel is the Last Man Standing, For Now
Time Magazine is bloody but unbowed. Howard Kurtz shows Time editor Rick Stengel wearing an arm sling after shoulder surgery in his column this week. "[H]e's the last man standing," writes Mr. Kurtz.
When the Newsweek sale was announced in the spring, Mr. Stengel told The York Times that his magazine was “very profitable Read More
Franzen’s Shakespearean Turn: Freedom Is a Retelling of The Winter’s Tale for Our Time
"I don't think they've figured out yet how to live," a neighbor says of the Berglunds, the family at the center of Jonathan Franzen's new novel. If the publication of Freedom feels like an Event--the author, bespectacled and melancholy, gazing out at the nation from the cover of Time--it is because novelists left behind Read More
New Onion Video Reveals Time For Adults
A new video from The Onion brutalizes Time magazine, debuting a fictional new Time Advanced for adults that works on the assumption that the current newsweekly is aimed at children.
Most damning perhaps are interviews with actual children who claim to have already outgrown Time. "I mean, none of my friends want to read a bunch Read More
Jonathan Franzen And Otters, Together in Time
Jonathan Franzen is the first living American novelist to appear on the cover of Time in ten years,
The magazine's profile of Mr. Franzen dwells on the topic of otters:
Otters are congenitally happy beasts. They don't worry about their future, even though they're legally a threatened species and their little estuary is literally Read More
Time Cover: On the Nose
File this week's Time cover under: things that are very important for us to know about our world that also make us squirm in our seat. (We're reminded this morning of The New York Times article earlier this month about heroin addicts who inject themselves with one another's blood to stave off withdrawal Read More
It’s Time to Pay Up! More than a Paywall for Time Inc.’s Newsweekly [Update]
If you want to read Journalism Online frontman Steve Brill's cover story in Time magazine this week, you'll need an iPad or print edition of the magazine. The same goes for every other article in the issue.
This is more than just a paywall. It's as if the print edition doesn't exist online in Read More
Game Changer Mark Halperin Joins MSNBC
Mark Halperin is coming on at MSNBC as the network's senior political analyst, Mike Allen reports. Mr. Halperin will continue in his role as editor-at-large and politics man for Time magazine, where he's worked since 2007. In March, Mr. Halperin split a $5.3 million advance (gigantic for 2010) with his Game Change co-author, Read More
Alley-Oop, Sports Illustrated Hits the iPad
Sports Illustrated joins Time magazine today as the first Time Inc. titles to have iPad applications.
Both apps are priced at $4.99, to compete with Wired. But Wired is dropping the price of its app to $3.99 for customers who purchased the first issue. Neither publisher has decided on subscription pricing for the iPad yet.
“We’ll be Read More
No Such Thing as a Free Lasagna! Time Food Critic in Hot Water
Josh Ozersky is a food critic for Time magazine, or something like that.
Yesterday the Voice's food writer Robert Sietsema wrote an open letter to Mr. Ozersky, criticizing him for his latest column about the food at his wedding — lasagna and cake provided by celebrity chefs that the groom couldn't afford.
"You don't make Read More
