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'Fred and Mort's Divorce' at the Daily News
by Carl Swanson
Jan. 23rd, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 23rd, 2000, 8:00 pm
The appointment, on Jan. read more »
Vibe and Spin Face Down a Murky Future
by Carl Swanson
Jan. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 16th, 2000, 8:00 pm
Employees at Time Inc., the magazine division of Time Warner Inc., found that they'll soon be workin read more »
New Yorkers Resist Sex Schemes of Horny Downtown Webmeisters
by Carl Swanson and Gabriel Snyder
Jan. 9th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 9th, 2000, 8:00 pm
It's not so easy being a pornographer. read more »
Sex Columnist Amy Sohn Kisses the Post Goodbye
by Carl Swanson
Jan. 9th, 2000, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 9th, 2000, 8:00 pm
There was Time magazine, in its Jan. read more »
Trouble at The Wall Street Journal 's Weekend Section
by Carl Swanson
Dec. 26th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Dec. 26th, 1999, 8:00 pm
As journalism jobs go, what could be more fun than writing or editing for the "Weekend Journal"? read more »
The Times Replaces Lead Film Critic Janet Maslin
by Carl Swanson
Dec. 12th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Dec. 12th, 1999, 8:00 pm
The New York Times has finally named its replacement for lead film critic Janet Maslin. read more »
George Names an Editor, Maxim Raids Details
by Carl Swanson
Dec. 5th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Dec. 5th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Frank Lalli, the new, surprise editor of George magazine, started work at 9:30 A.M. on Nov. 30. read more »
New York's Deborah Mitchell Jumps to Ed Kosner's Sunday Daily News
by Carl Swanson
Nov. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Nov. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Ed Kosner's semi-independent Sunday Daily News is getting its own gossip columnist to cover more ups read more »
Mark Golin Finally Populates Details ' Staff … Spin Shrinks
by Carl Swanson
Nov. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Nov. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
Tina Brown's sidekick, David Kuhn, is set to leave Talk magazine for Planet Content, the e-commerce read more »
Miramax Steers DiCaprio to Cover of Talk Magazine
by Carl Swanson
Nov. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Nov. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Miramax Films signed on as distributor of Gangs of New York , a movie starring Leonardo DiCaprio, on read more »
The New Republic 's Peter Beinart Cans His First Editor
by Carl Swanson
Nov. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Nov. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Just call him the Butcher Boy. On Nov. read more »
Harry Evans' Next Life
by Carl Swanson
Oct. 31st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 31st, 1999, 8:00 pm
So just what's Harold Evans doing now that he's no longer going to be editorial director of Mortimer read more »
Kurt Andersen and Michael Hirschorn Assemble New Media Web Site
by Carl Swanson
Oct. 24th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 24th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Michael Hirschorn and Kurt Andersen are beginning to put a staff together for their on-line media an read more »
Tina Brown Loses Her Magic Spell
by Carl Swanson
Oct. 17th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 17th, 1999, 8:00 pm
What happened to Tina Brown's power over writers and editors? read more »
Marty Peretz Hires Nice Young Man as New Republic Editor
by Carl Swanson
Oct. 10th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 10th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Peter Beinart, a self-effacing, 28-year-old former intern at The New Republic , is set to become the read more »
New Atlantic Guy David Bradley Joins Magazine Big Shots
by Carl Swanson
Oct. 3rd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Oct. 3rd, 1999, 8:00 pm
David Bradley, the new owner of the 142-year-old Atlantic Monthly , is a budding magazine mogul. read more »
Janet Maslin, 50, Quits The Times : Loved Eyes Wide Shut , Hated Gummo
by Carl Swanson
Sep. 26th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Sep. 26th, 1999, 8:00 pm
After 22 years at The New York Times and too many bylines to count, film critic Janet Maslin is quit read more »
Stinky Mark Golin Is a New Kind of Condé Nast Creature
by Carl Swanson
Sep. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Sep. 19th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Mark Golin, the new editor of Details magazine, wears Prada boots now, but he manages to make them l read more »
S.I. Newhouse Jr. Gets a Daily
by Carl Swanson
Aug. 29th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Aug. 29th, 1999, 8:00 pm
The sale of the Walt Disney Company's Fairchild Publications to S.I. read more »
Brill Enters 'Dot-Com' Sweepstakes, Soros Backs His 'Planet Content'
by Carl Swanson
Aug. 22nd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Aug. 22nd, 1999, 8:00 pm
When Brill's Content moves out of the dowdy offices at 521 Fifth Avenue it's been in since the magaz read more »
More Bad Vibes at Miller Publishing
by Carl Swanson
Aug. 15th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Aug. 15th, 1999, 8:00 pm
The announcement Aug. read more »
Kurt Andersen, Michael Hirschorn and Jim Cramer in Cahoots on a Webzine
by Carl Swanson
Aug. 8th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Aug. 8th, 1999, 8:00 pm
After being tossed out of their magazines, ex-editors in chief Michael Hirschorn and Kurt Andersen a read more »
Gear Dumps Expensive Writers; Toby Young Fired Again
by Carl Swanson
Aug. 1st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Aug. 1st, 1999, 8:00 pm
The editors at Gear , the magazine founded by Bob Guccione Jr. read more »
Times Metro Section to Lose Its Sourpuss Editor
by Carl Swanson
Jul. 25th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Jul. 25th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Joyce Purnick announced the end of her two-year run as editor of The Metro Section of The New York T read more »
New Yorker Learns Reports of García Márquez's Death Are Grossly Exaggerated
by Carl Swanson
Jul. 18th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Jul. 18th, 1999, 8:00 pm
On July 9, The New Yorker received, via fax, "what looked like a press release from Newsweek.com" an read more »
Time Out Editor Laments Comedy of Errors
by Carl Swanson
Jul. 11th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Jul. 11th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Before you plan a night on the town with the help of those perky listings in Time Out New York , you read more »
Salon I.P.O. Is Proof of New Adage: Editorial Doesn't Go Public
by Carl Swanson
Jun. 27th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Jun. 27th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Salon.com hit the ground–well, it just sort of hit the ground when it went public at last June 22. read more »
Ex- Rolling Stone Writer Neal Karlen Gets Revenge on Jann Wenner
by Carl Swanson
Jun. 20th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Jun. 20th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Longtime Rolling Stone writer Neal Karlen has attacked Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner in a new bo read more »
Dinner at T.G.I.F.: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore
by Carl Swanson
Jun. 20th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Jun. 20th, 1999, 8:00 pm
There's something wonderfully hectic about my friend Francesca. read more »
Tony Kushner and Other Gay Writers Criticize a John Updike Review
by Carl Swanson
Jun. 13th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Jun. 13th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Is there room on the shelf for yet another New Yorker memoir? read more »
A Furrier With a Shady Past Sues James Ellroy for Libel
by Carl Swanson
Jun. 6th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Jun. 6th, 1999, 8:00 pm
A character in the latest book by James Ellroy has turned on the author.Albert Teitelbaum, a retired read more »
How Much Did Mortimer Zuckerman Scratch Mayor Giuliani's Back to Win Crime Scene Access?
by Carl Swanson
May. 30th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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May. 30th, 1999, 8:00 pm
On April 22, Daily News owner Mortimer Zuckerman met secretly with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Police read more »
Graydon Carter Aborts His Sun-and-Fun Weekend With Barry Diller
by Carl Swanson
May. 23rd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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May. 23rd, 1999, 8:00 pm
James Collard, the British editor who arrived in February 1998 to turn Out , the upscale, centrist g read more »
Adam Moss Irks Daily Reporters at The Times
by Carl Swanson
May. 16th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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May. 16th, 1999, 8:00 pm
There's always been a bit of friction between The New York Times Magazine and the legions of ink-sta read more »
Variety Explodes Over The New York Times ' Coast Coverage
by Carl Swanson
May. 9th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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May. 9th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Early on in his May 3 piece about how The Hollywood Reporter is gaining on Variety in terms of movie read more »
John Podhoretz Takes a Spill From His New York Post Feature Empire
by Carl Swanson
May. 2nd, 1999, 8:00 pm
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May. 2nd, 1999, 8:00 pm
There's been a setback in the Podhoretz-ization of the New York Post . read more »
Lou Dobbs Fights With Time Warner for Cyberturf
by Carl Swanson
Apr. 25th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Apr. 25th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Lou Dobbs, president and anchor of the cable business news channel CNN-FN, appears to have won the f read more »
Magazines Seek the Force, Cash In on George Lucas' New Star Wars Bonanza
by Carl Swanson
Apr. 18th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Apr. 18th, 1999, 8:00 pm
The new Star Wars movie is coming. Perhaps you've heard. read more »
Tina Brown's Innovation? Chintzing the Writers
by Carl Swanson
Apr. 11th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Apr. 11th, 1999, 8:00 pm
From the beginning, Talk Media has been a hotbed of synergistic millennialism. At least publicly. read more »
A Vast Exodus at Wenner's Monthly Makes a Them Out of Us
by Carl Swanson
Apr. 4th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Apr. 4th, 1999, 8:00 pm
There's been another sudden exodus from Us magazine, casting doubt on the editorial stability of the read more »
Off the Record
by Carl Swanson
Mar. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Mar. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
As the Daily News prepares to deploy its new Sunday edition on March 28 to the tune of $2 million, o read more »
Newsroom Nausea at the Daily News
by Carl Swanson
Mar. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Mar. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
For a newspaper built on a tabloid history of enduring unkind cuts, the week of March 15 brought som read more »
Celebrity Monsters Terrorize Magazines
by Carl Swanson
Mar. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Mar. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
It wasn't so long ago that celebrity publicists and managers were afraid, very afraid, they were los read more »
Hitchens Put on Trial Before an Angry Nation
by Carl Swanson
Mar. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Mar. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Christopher Hitchens is mad again. read more »
Focus Group Declares New York Post Too Hard to Read
by Carl Swanson
Feb. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 28th, 1999, 8:00 pm
The New York Post used to have its newsroom and printing plant down on South Street. read more »
Pecker Dumps Hachette, Begins Tabloid Reign
by Carl Swanson
Feb. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 21st, 1999, 8:00 pm
Hachette Filipacchi Magazines chief executive David Pecker, notorious for his hellbent quest to make read more »
Beautiful … Jimmy Breslin Yaps, Says Lategano Is Rudy's 'Co-Mayor'
by Carl Swanson
Feb. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Jimmy Breslin has done it again-said the thing that wasn't supposed to be said. read more »
Beautiful ... Jimmy Breslin Yaps, Says Lategano Is Rudy's 'Co-Mayor'
by Carl Swanson
Feb. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 14th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Jimmy Breslin has done it again-said the thing that wasn't supposed to be said. read more »
Dow Jones Employees Distressed by Derailment From Their Retirement Fund
by Carl Swanson
Feb. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Feb. 7th, 1999, 8:00 pm
Memo to Mark Golin: Always remember, never ask your new boss, Condé Nast chairman S.I. read more »
The Rise of Maxim Magazine
by Carl Swanson
Jan. 31st, 1999, 8:00 pm
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Jan. 31st, 1999, 8:00 pm
Maxim , the men's magazine that trend journalists love to puzzle over– see Newsweek 's Feb. read more »
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