ESPN's star columnist Bill Simmons is launching his own site, reports AllThingsD. The as of yet unnamed blog will be owned by ESPN, but not ESPN branded. The coverage will be 70% sports and 30% pop culture, or, as his site designer described it, "sports/literary." And he's staffing it... MORE»
Piers Morgan joined New York social-media startup VYou yesterday--the service allows users to communicate with friends, fans, and followers by recording short videos answering questions of varying degrees of pertinence. Piers's default video, running on a loop, shows him sitting in front of a picture of Kim Kardashian, covering his mouth with a closed fist then straining to smile. Morgan hasn't yet mastered VYou--he has 23 followers, and follows no one.... MORE»
As a response to Stephen Colbert's joking on The Colbert Report about "The Colbuffington Re-Post"--a site, identical in all particulars but name to the Huffington Post, that he planned to sell for $316 million--the Huffington Post announced its own new initiative, The Huffbert Nation.... MORE»
As we reported Monday, Arianna Huffington spoke last weekend at a Columbia Spectator journalism awards dinner and casually offered everyone in the room a job. While we're not sure she'll get back to anyone (especially in light of the newly merged company retaining Booz to reportedly hash out layoffs, not hirings), she's at least making an... MORE»
Trusty real estate sources told The Observer a couple of weeks ago that Apple wants to open a store in Grand Central. Now the blog Cult of Mac has confirmed the news with a source close to the company and reports that the world's largest Mac shack is coming to the Beaux Arts... MORE»
Vogue's new iPad app, "Vogue Cover Exclusive," focuses on the one part of the issue people pay attention to: the cover.... MORE»
New York journalists take note! Google has digitized all copies of Spy magazine and lovingly placed them in a searchable archive, available for your perusal starting... MORE»
Justin Bieber's forthcoming Rolling Stone cover has already merited a correction; the teen star's stance on abortion, definitely an important thing about which to know, is not quite as absolutist as it initially appeared! The quote from the initial interview, via... MORE»
Earlier this month, James Gordon Meek resigned his position as the terrorism reporter for the New York Daily News--a post he had held for 8 of his 13 years on the beat--and accepted an offer to become a senior investigator on the House Committee on Homeland Security. "It's a pretty intense period right now and the idea of having any piece of it, any part of helping secure the country was--there are those moments sometimes where you just can't say no to something like that," Meek told The Observer on Wednesday, his third day in his new... MORE»
More news out of Bravo today, as Lisa Hsia has been promoted to Executive Vice President of Bravo Digital Media. Bravo's release detailed Hsia's responsibilities--overseeing Bravo's flagship site and their recap mecca, Television Without Pity, as well as working on various multiplatform initiatives.... MORE»
Comeback! Lindsay Lohan will read the Top Ten for David Letterman tomorrow night. Letterman will only break from making fun of her long enough to flirt with her. [NYT] Scandal! Karl Lagerfeld flew his muses out to Paris to photograph them wearing the line he designed for the Italian label Hogan. Blake Lively was not invited. [Page... MORE»
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Last week, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell devoted an unseemly share of his airtime to blasting Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly for his "relentless barrage of interruptions" of Barack Obama during Mr. O'Reilly's pre-Super Bowl interview with the president. Monday's line was that Mr. O'Reilly "failed more miserably than anyone who has ever gone before him" with executive access. On Tuesday, Mr. O'Donnell invited HBO pundit Bill Maher on air to affirm that Mr.... MORE»
60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan "suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault" while reporting on the celebrations in Egypt's Tahrir Square following the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak on Friday, according to The Post. CBS said in a statement that Logan and her team and their security were surrounded by a mob of more than 200... MORE»
When Stefano Tonchi named Alex Gonzalez creative director of W magazine, we were relieved that the expecting father and newlywed would be getting a helping hand. But a line at the end of the announcement gave us pause: "In addition to his role as Creative Director at W, Gonzalez will continue as Executive Creative Director at AR New York for a select group of the agency's... MORE»
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