Whoopi Goldberg used today's episode of The View to criticize Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott's article on race at this year's Oscars for not mentioning her Best Supporting Actress trophy.... MORE»
An eagle-eyed Twitter user caught Us Weekly in an embarrassing mix-up last night--a story about Lady Gaga's acceptance speech shout-out to Whitney Houston was illustrated with a photo of last night's performer Yolanda Adams.... MORE»
Donovan Hohn has left Harper's for GQ, where he will be a features editor. "I've long admired GQ's journalistic storytelling and am excited to be headed there," Mr. Hohn told The Observer. Mr. Hohn was a senior editor at Harper's, where he oversaw the Readings section for a time and later edited essays and... MORE»
ABC announced today that David Muir is to anchor their weekend World News broadcasts. The youthful Muir, who recently returned from Cairo, is something of an ABC lifer, having reported for World News with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Nightline. Sounds like Muir has a good working relationship with the reportedly hard-to-love ABC News President Ben Sherwood! ddaddario@observer.com ::... MORE»
Azi Paybarah will rejoin the staff of The New York Observer, editor-in-chief Elizabeth Spiers announced today. "Azi Paybarah is a prolific political reporter and I look forward to the dynamism and energy he'll bring to the Observer newsroom," she... MORE»
Mildly disgraced New Zealand television "presenter" Paul Henry, who resigned from his seven-year gig hosting the morning news show Breakfast last year after a racially insensitive—albeit amusing—riff about the surname of an Indian government minister, is getting a second chance in America. A few days ago, production company Ish Entertainment quietly posted a "sizzle reel" online. Meanwhile, Ish founder Michael Hirschorn has been squiring Mr. Henry to meetings with agents and network brass in hopes of putting together a... MORE»
On Saturday night at the Columbia Club on West 43rd Street--really just a warren carved out of the Princeton Club, but who's keeping score?--Arianna Huffington was making a lot of promises. The keynote speaker of the Columbia Daily Spectator Awards Dinner, and newly minted face of AOL, addressed a room of college journalists and recent graduates: "There are so many incredible journalists I've already met here--if anyone else is interested in working with me, please let me... MORE»
J.C. Penney dominated a suspiciously wide swath of Google search results until the Times brought it to Google's attention. Penney's also a top Google ad buyer. Strange bedfellows under Cindy Crawford brand sheets. [New York... MORE»
120 Park Avenue Rarely does a company take half of a tower without so much as a whisper beforehand. It's even more extraordinary when that company swoops into a space that everyone in the industry thought was... MORE»
While scanning the Web for any New York City events commemorating Abraham Lincoln's birthday on Saturday, I discovered that the 16th president, who was assassinated in April 1865, is, in fact, on... MORE»
ArtsBeat announced today that this week's New York Times Book Review will feature, for the first time, bestseller lists accounting for the sales of e-books.... MORE»
Five fashion bloggers from Tumblr got out of a cab at 40th and Seventh Avenue, and it looked for a moment like a clown car. They waited in the lobby of a big midtown building for 19 others to arrive to take a tour of Oscar de la Renta's studio. "We're one buddy system away from being a field trip," one of them, Ashley Simko said. "We are a field trip," the blogger John Jannuzzi... MORE»
Nick Denton threw a nice party at his Soho pad last night to celebrate the launch of the new Gawker. After the place had reached critical mass, Denton dimmed the lights and rallied the troops. He thanked everyone for handling the Tsunami of twitter hate that came along with the redesign. He called out Rex Sorgatz about their pageview bet and announced to his editorial team that he would give them his winnings from the wager as a motivational... MORE»
Yale and Anita Roe have lived all over the world, spending time in the Bay Area, Chicago, Hilton Head, and, of course, New York, much of it for Mr. Roe's work as a producer and executive at ABC. There was also that trip on a lark to Israel that became the subject of Mr. Roe's book, I Followed My Heart to Jerusalem.... MORE»
Town & Country takes its pants off. [WWD] Piers Morgan pump-ups his studio audience with cupcakes and chips. [Business... MORE»
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