New York Times crown prince A "to the" G Sulzberger has triumphed in his most demeaning test thus far: writing an entire story about bathroom breaks. You don't have to take this, AG! Put those editors in their place! [Previously]
The WSJ mocked a headline in the Toledo Blade: Luckey Teen Wins Blade Spelling Bee. "He's luckey," the paper said, "the blade can't spell any better than he can." Except Luckey is the name of the town he's from. [HuffPo]
The "self-promoting pansexual former gay magazine editor," who claims he quit Men's Fitness when bosses forced him to put Tiger Woods on the cover as part of a shady deal to cover up his affairs, has joined moral powerhouse OK!
The LA Times today examines how the Seattle Post-Intelligencer segued from print to exclusively online journalism. But blogging — how and why we cover the stories we cover — is going the other way and coming to resemble... newspapers.
When the Future Robot Death Panels ask you to show them one article that explains exactly how narrow-minded, cynical, amoral, and borderline sociopathic the Washington press was in the time of Freedom, you may want to consider this Politico story.
In your finally Friday media column: wacko wants to buy newspaper from some other wackos who are too wack to sell, Christiane Amanpour has a new job, a WSJ wage freeze, and Jon Friedman is a literary Tiger.
Screwing freelance writers is just wrong. We're doing our part to expose those who don't pay up. Today: complaints that Regent/ Here Media, owner of Out and The Advocate, is ripping their freelancers off.
Gerald Posner, the former Daily Beast reporter who's copped to a comically high number of plagiarism violations recently, gave a little speech in Miami Beach last night. One of the authors he's plagiarized was there! It did not go well.
TVNewser reports that, according to documents filed in a Florida court today, ABC News paid $200,000 to the family of accused toddler-killer Casey Anthony in exchange for photos of the toddler she allegedly murdered.
The following email was sent out to the Columbia Journalism School new media alumni email list today. We post it not to mock the unfortunate sender, but rather to gently question just how well they're teaching "new media," over there.
In your laughable Thursday media column: Roger Ailes calls for unity, Brandon Holley lives the lonely life online, W's editor is leaving, and so are some editors at Harper's.
Toyota's general counsel is calling on ABC News president David Westin to retract and apologize for a cocked-up story by America's Wrongest Reporter, Brian Ross. UPDATE: ABC News' response is below.
NYT editor Bill Keller sent out this staff memo about the departure of political writer Adam Nagourney, who's leaving DC for the West Coast. It takes three writers to replace him:
Janice Min, the former Us Weekly editor-in-chief who resigned last summer and may now be planning to launch a "celebrity mom-based website" for media mogul Barry Diller, is looking for a buyer for her Soho loft.
Essence had substantial layoffs last November. Now, the beauty director's retiring, the beauty editor has left, and we hear an assistant was fired and the whole fashion team is AWOL today. Fashion PR people are worried! Know more? Email us.
In your energizing Wednesday media column: ad spending is rising towards an inevitable deadly explosion, Yahoo hires some good writers, AOL enters the food blog wars, and a Cleveland reporter is a wanted man.
We hear that Oyster, the high-end travel website that laid off more than a third of its staff in December, has canned its remaining editorial staffers.
Democrats are going to use a slightly obscure but by-no-means unprecedented parliamentary procedure to pass health care reform through the House. The only reason to do this is because they are idiots.