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Julia Allison Lost Her Job: A Little Lesson in Microfame
The sex columnist is out of her editor-at-large gig at 'Star,' and grappling with the most difficult step of the microfame process: persisting.
Posted 06/18/08 in Daily Intel : Intel
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Bloomberg: Crane Collapse ‘Intolerable’
The mayor gives developers and union leaders a piece of his mind at a press conference on this morning's crane collapse, students and colleagues of a popular Wall Street figure are flabbergasted by the SEC charges filed against him, and CNN's Jessica Yellin gets into a war of words about the war.
Posted 05/30/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Pop Quiz: Know Your Media Ladies
Yesterday and today, the Times profiled three women in media: Julia Allison, Arianna Huffington, and Lauren Zalaznick. Despite differences in their ages and careers, the three of them seem of a type.
Posted 03/31/08 in Daily Intel : Multiple Choice
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Joe Dolce, Former ‘Star’ Editor, Gets a Taste of ‘Culture’
MEDIA • Former Star editor-in-chief Joe Dolce resurfaces, bringing Culture & Travel magazine back into the spotlight. [WWD] • Former Seventeen editrix Atoosa Rubenstein resurfaces, bringing Alpha Kitty back into the spotlight. [HuffPo] • And for those wondering how to keep tabs on colleagues who are masthead hopping, check out e-newsletter Gorkana, brought to your in-box by friendly PR people. [NYT]
Posted 02/25/08 in Daily Intel : Company Town
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Nation, Gird Your Loins! The Lopez-Anthony Twins Cometh!
Jennifer Lopez has checked into her private room at Long Island's North Shore University Hospital, presumably so that she can give birth to the babies that have been making her look majorly fat lately. This very important news comes to us courtesy of "Page Six," and since the Post went to press last night, this could mean that babies are bursting out of J.Lo's vagina right this very second. Not that we would know if they were, because the hospital is on lockdown. According to the esteemed New Zealand Herald, Lopez has "banned staff from entering the room where she is due to give birth." This is likely due to the fact that People magazine has reportedly offered $6.5 million for pictures of the twins, the most money a baby has fetched since the magazine paid $4 million for pics of Shiloh Jolie-Pitt in 2004. However, since there are two Lopez babies, it's really only $3.25 million per twin, and that's is kind of a slap in the face if you think about it. In any case,* the black-market number for purloined photos is said to be significantly higher. We hear Star is offering an undisclosed but gargantuan sum to anyone who can bring them a photo of the twins with the umbilical cord still attached, and Nick Denton, of Gawker, will pay $7 per second of streaming video to anyone who has the gumption to film the actual birth scene, complete with a sweaty, screaming J.Lo and a pallid and revolted Marc Anthony. Placenta, of course, will be auctioned on eBay starting at midnight the day of the birth. J.Lo Checks In [NYP] *From here to the end everything we say is lies
Posted 02/20/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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Print Organizations Band Together, But Who Will Remain on the Island?
MEDIA • Print organizations make like Survivor: The New York Times, Hearst, Tribune, and Gannet form an alliance to back a new online company called quadrantONE. [USAT] • Star magazine makes no apologies for paying sources for scoops. In fact, "right underneath [Candace] Trunzo's editor's note in the current issue is an unbridled pitch with dollar signs around the edges." [NYP] • Bad blood is brewing between Barron's and CNBC after the publication ran a critical story about Mad Money's Jim Cramer. [CJR]
Posted 02/15/08 in Daily Intel : In Other News
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