It's official: Scott Pelley takes over Katie Couric's char at CBS on June 6. [WSJ] The Daily News had a tip about the Osama bin Laden mission. They don't say who the source is, naturally, but we're guessing Hulk Hogan.... MORE»
It was Wednesday morning at 9:47 a.m. in the White House Press Briefing Room. The president of the United States of America, Barack Obama, took the podium. Major television networks had interrupted coverage to broadcast the president's address. "Now, let me just comment, first of all, on the fact that I can't get the networks to break in on all kinds of other discussions," he said.... MORE»
Seagram heir and Warner Music maestro Edgar Bronfman Jr. spent a good part of his life growing up around the globe. He decided two years ago that his kids should have the same experience and relocated them to London, though always with the plan to return when the eldest reached high-school... MORE»
In the aftermath of Osama bin Laden's death, publishers have clamored to sign deals about the event. Former Newsweek chief Jon Meacham is editing an e-book essay collection called "Beyond Bin Laden" for Random House. Peter Bergen has been signed by Crown to write the "definitive" book, tentatively called The Manhunt. One publisher, however, is ahead of the... MORE»
When I first encountered Mulholland Books, it was a foggy April night in the Financial District, the kind of night that makes you think the man upstairs might not be such a bad guy, if he's got the decency to take your mind off the things that go on in the upper floors of the buildings down... MORE»
Late Friday night, according to his now-infamous Twitter feed, Keith Urbahn toasted the end of the work week with a tall mint julep on a warm Washington evening, made from mint from his garden and 1792 small-batch Kentucky bourbon. By the end of the weekend, Mr. Urbahn, 27, had become a minor celebrity in the media storm that surrounded the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, and his Twitter feed had jumped from a few hundred followers to nearly 7,000—and... MORE»
The trailer for Page One, Andrew Rossi's documentary about The New York Times media desk, was released today and the gang is all there--Times chief Bill Keller, columnist-ingenue David Carr, Wunderkind Brian Stelter, even industry warlock Jeff Jarvis. Judging from the two and a half minutes we've seen, Mr. Carr is the hero and Mr. Stelter is his New Media-happy, sidekicking foil. "I still can't get over the feeling that Brian Stelter was a robot assembled to destroy me," says Mr. Carr. The bad guys are The Huffington Post and... MORE»
Last night, united voices carried the exuberant revelry of Osama bin Laden's death from Times Square to Ground Zero. Tweets kept others updated about where the masses were congregating.... MORE»
Rupert Murdoch's pet project, The Daily, has some impressive aerial footage today of the devastation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which was obtained with an unusual... MORE»
Early this morning, Nikki Finke posted at Deadline that she was having tech issues: "Deadline won't be filing new posts until all the current technical problems are fixed." That didn't stop her from posting, thirteen minutes earlier (at the unholy hour of 5:48am Pacific time--had she stayed up for the royal wedding?), a post entitled "Reality." The text reads, in... MORE»
"I know for some people this settles the issue," Farah said of the birth certificate. "It's up to us to persuade people that there's a lot more to this issue than the Hawaiian birth." — Joseph Farah, publisher of a book titled "Where's the Birth Certificate?" out on May 17. [NBC via... MORE»
Self-help mogul Deepak Chopra will join the growing ranks of celebrities hired to draw from their "broad network of contacts" to "initiate, recommend and submit" books for publication at divisions of Random House. Unlike Dana Perino or Ruth Reichl, Dr. Chopra will have his own eponymous imprint at Crown, Deepak Chopra Books. According to the press release, "The ultimate goal is an 'expanded science' that bridges... MORE»
For decades, Paul Gigot has cast a long shadow over American conservatism, first as a columnist and now as editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal. Soon, his shadow will loom over Central Park, as well, as the opinion journalist has just bought a two-bedroom co-op near the top of 4 East 95th... MORE»
Last week, deputies in Polk County, Fla., arrested 60 people--including a Disney employee, a man with breast implants, a 15-year-old runaway with a 2-year-old infant, and her pimp--in an online prostitution bust dubbed Operation Curtain Call. A year ago the sensational sting would likely have been the next in a long litany of tabloid-friendly Craigslist crimes, but the deputies told the Palm Beach Post that the prostitution services had been advertised instead on Backpage.com, the Village Voice Media-owned online classifieds... MORE»
On Monday night, I was on 10th Avenue talking to the biological granddaughter of Brooklyn literary lioness Paula Fox. I asked her if she read Martin Amis. "I like Money," said Courtney Love, sitting on a bench and smoking a cigarette outside a film premiere after-party. "I like John Self in Money," she said. "I don't relate to John Self, though. He's a very bad man." Ms. Love had no opinion about the fact that Mr. Amis is moving this summer to... MORE»
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