Remainders: Greetings from Middletown, NJ

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Brian Williams unleashes his inner Springsteen.

Maybe Rupe was right to keep the Journal’s pay wall.

As traffic increases, Gawker writers’ pay rate drops.

Michelle Obama and the Essence/ Ebony …

K-Wey: “smart ” and “savvy”

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

With Katharine Weymouth expected to choose the Post’s future executive editor next week, Editor  & Publisher asks staffers what they think of the paper’s newish publisher.

Many at the paper have pointed to Weymouth as the perfect Post publisher …

Blogger shot in D.C. now recovering

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

By: Avi Zenilman

Brian Beutler — the D.C. reporter for the Media Consortium, a coalition of liberal magazines and media outlets — was shot Monday night during an aborted mugging around Adams Morgan. He is expected to make a full recovery.

Ezra Klein has …

Fox’s Wallace on outraging liberals

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Chris Wallace, in an interview with The Martha’s Vineyard Times, talks about believing in liberal bias since coming to Fox, and debating fellow vacationers.

"I really have over the course of time come to think that there is a bias …

Low morale at the LA Times

July 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

Whether they jumped or were pushed out because of calls from up high to make drastic newsroom cuts, the past three editors of the Los Angeles Times — John Carroll, Dean Baquet, and Jim O’Shea — each …

Torturing Christopher Hitchens

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

After undergoing waterboarding for Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens concludes that the practice is indeed, torture.

You may have read by now the official lie about this treatment, which is that it “simulates” the feeling of drowning. This is not …

NYT’s Baquet welcomes Calmes

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

NYT Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet officially welcomed Jackie Calmes to paper, who was brought into the fold by her old friend and colleague, Jill Abramson. From an internal memo:

From Dean: Announcement I am pleased to announce that …

Limbaugh: ‘Hannity isn’t close to me’

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

By: Avi Zenilman

The entire profile is worth a read, but there’s an interesting nugget, toward the end of the NYT magazine cover story on Rush Limbaugh, where he discusses other conservative talkers. First, he compares Bill O’Reilly to Ted Baxter and …

WaPo editor announcement next week

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

There’s been a lot of buzz in the Washington Post newsroom the past few days that publisher Katharine Weymouth would announce the paper’s next executive editor today.

Problem is: Weymouth’s on vacation all this week, as her assistant informed me yesterday.

But …

Limbaugh’s $400 million deal

July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

By: Michael Calderone

I mentioned yesterday that Rush Limbaugh would grace the NYT mag cover this weekend, and now some news nuggets have leaked out on Drudge.

Limbaugh’s "unprecedented radio contract," which keeps him on air through 2016, reportedly tops $400 …





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