Gawker.com, where the author is employed as a staff writer, declined to publish this story. Did the Church of Scientology use a Vanity Fair contributing editor to infiltrate and gather intelligence on the cult's enemies in the media?... MORE >
Gawker has found someone to fill its empty editor/reporter position: John Cook, who left Nick Denton last April to join the expanding ranks at... MORE >
A New York Times front page story from Monday by veteran James Risen about mineral riches in Afghanistan has quickly become a story about how The New York Times deals with criticism. Critics questioned the news-worthiness and the timing of the story. For some, the article explained the American effort in Afghanistan too much, and the timing seemed... MORE >
CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite offered his advice and his news division's resources to anti-Vienam student organizers from Rollins College in 1969, according to FBI documents uncovered in the latest Freedom of Information Law treatment from John... MORE >
Noted up-and-coming young blogger Foster Kamer has another scoop today: it seems that investigative reporter John Cook will be leaving Gawker for Yahoo News. He follows Michael Calderone and Chris Lehmann "into the maw of Yahoo," as soon-to-be-ex boss Nick Denton puts... MORE >
John Cook, the longtime Radar contributor and the crackerjack TV reporter for the Chicago Tribune, is heading to Gawker. His first day is Monday. He'll be covering covering a variety of things: his old beat in television; he'll respond to the day's news when he's got something to say; and he'll be digging through FOIAs and courthouse documents for topics "that align with the stuff Gawker does," something the Web site has long been after... MORE >
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