When ABC legal analyst Dan Abrams's friends and family gathered in his sister Ronnie's Central Park South duplex on Monday night to celebrate his first book, his father, first amendment lawyer Floyd Abrams, took up the traditional paternal duty of divulging an embarrassing childhood anecdote. Apparently, when Abrams fils was in ninth grade, a female French teacher had derided him in front of the class.... MORE >
If you think a Brooklyn magazine that was not made out of your friend's Bushwick garage with an antique letterpress is for arriviste poseurs, prepare to hate Brooklyn Magazine, a quarterly published by the team behind the freebie listings pamphlet The L Magazine, which launches today. For some, the magazine's professions of borough cred will seem a stretch. ... MORE >
The Huffington Post would really like us to stop thinking about last week's layoffs and Bill Keller quips. As predicted, they unloaded a breathless, four page-long press release of hires and other good news this... MORE >
New York Times executive editor Bill Keller might soon be eating the words of this week's column, "All the Aggregation That's Fit To Print." No, not because he reveals to the world his wife's twilight tweeting habit. Not even because of that paragraphs-long back-door brag about how important we all insist he... MORE >
On a Tuesday evening not long ago, a group of publishing assistants in their early 20s gathered in a well-appointed apartment on the West Side of Manhattan. "Assistants: Meet the person on the other end of the telephone," the email had said. Still in their workday Moscots and belted sweater dresses, they found live human beings and an assistant's paycheck worth of cheese and wine, along with a gestural six-pack of beer that would go... MORE >
Who do you have to frack to get some credit around here? That's what we're wondering after a recent New York Times series on the latest hot-button environmental issue--hydraulic fracturing, a.k.a. "fracking." The Times series is packaged as a slow-cooked exposé, but a small team of reporters from ProPublica had been doggedly covering the practice since 2008--before it was even a beat, let alone the celebrity cause of Mark... MORE >
"Why are Republicans such dicks?" asked a pink cardboard phallus rising from the crowd at Foley Square in lower Manhattan on Saturday. Some 6,000 people had gathered to rally against the House Republicans' vote to cut federal funding for Planned Parenthood. "It's great to see so many guys here," said Kathleen Hanna, front woman of Le Tigre and high priestess of the Riot Grrrl movement, a few minutes ... MORE >
The New York Times has lost two more opinion editors to Bloomberg News, according to a Bloomberg spokesperson. As Mixed Media heard, Toby Harshaw, a longtime opinion editor and Mary Duenwald, David Shipley's former editor, are confirmed to have joined the new Bloomberg View editorial page, helmed by Shipley, who was deputy editorial and op-ed page editor at the Times and Jamie Rubin, former U.S. Department of State Assistant... MORE >
Today the New York Daily News ripped off The Daily's naked therapist story, which ran Monday.... MORE >
Last week WWD reported that the new New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren had put his first signature, redesigned issue to bed. It will hit newsstands on Sunday, March 6. And since yesterday's edition read like a group memorial service, we can expect whatever shows up to look entirely new and different. The front of book housecleaning rumored to have been enacted by Mr. Lindgren and New Republic young gun Greg Veis was... MORE >
Amid the social media flurry of the Academy Awards tonight, former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan quietly announced that he will move his blog, The Daily Dish, to Tina Brown's News Beast in April. "[T]here are some opportunities you just can't let pass by," he wrote on TheAtlantic.com. Mr. Sullivan will also write columns and essays for Newsweek... MORE >
UPDATE: Eliot Spitzer will have his own show, called "In the Arena," with rotating guests and in the same timeslot. reports The... MORE >
We know Rupert Murdoch runs NewsCorp like a family business, but who has the balls to make the movie version?... MORE >
Editors from the most prestigious magazines--New Yorker, Harper's, New York Review of Books, and The New Republic--responded to recent reports of gender imbalance at The Sisterhood today. All gave boilerplate responses: We know it's bad. We'll try harder. In the meantime, did you know we publish female writers x, y, and z? Not very encouraging. Except for The New... MORE >
Cosmpolitan will launch an Armenian edition in March, announced president and CEO of Hearst Magazines International Duncan Edwards. Part of an ongoing effort to realize their name, Cosmopolitan recently dispatched editions of the fun, fearless flagship to Mongolia and the Middle East. The Armenian ambassador to Rodeo Drive, Kim Kardashian, makes for an obvious cover choice. Hrachuhi Utmazyan has been named Cosmo's editor and the magazine will have an initial circulation of... MORE >
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