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Random House

  1. stories from the storm
    As Sandy Loomed, the Publishing Industry PanickedBut not about the storm.
  2. media moguls
    Roger Ailes and Jon Meacham Had Lunch Together at Michael’sA man date!
  3. books
    Jon Meacham’s First Book Deal As VP of Random House: Al Gore’s Future ManifestoWill this be his third best seller?
  4. memoirs of an international super-villain
    Julian Assange Inks $1.5 Million WikiLeaks Tell-All Book Deal“I don’t want to write this book.”
  5. ink-stained wretches
    Jon Meacham Will Be Executive Editor at Random HouseSo much for magazines.
  6. media deathwatch
    Bad News for Books. And Newspapers. And Magazines. And Websites.Yeah, this week is getting ugly.
  7. media death watch
    Another Day, Another Few Hundred Editorial Workers With Unhappy ThanksgivingsOur daily count of how many heads rolled in the media industry.
  8. intel
    Jane Friedman Shoved Out Just As She Was Leaving?Let’s just say her best friend left the party and things got awkward — so she started gathering her things to leave, but not quickly enough.
  9. gossipmonger
    Why Wouldn’t Sharon Bush Be Involved With Roger Clemens’s Steroid Scandal?Roger Clemens’s friendship with the black sheep of the Bush family, Sharon Bush, may cost him a pardon from George W. if he is convicted of perjury. Both HarperCollins and Random House are set to come out with books about George Steinbrenner. A “Page Six” spy thinks Howard Stern’s fiancée, Beth Ostrosky, wants to have a baby because she, uh, stopped to say hello to one. Will Ferrell and Tom Brokaw did an onstage bit together at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday for Ferrell’s Funny or Die tour. The New Yorker reveals that the late Bishop Paul Moore was a closeted homosexual. Tracy Westmoreland, owner of erstwhile dive bar Siberia, may play a bouncer in a movie called The Bouncer.
  10. company town
    You Know, For KidsMEDIA • Seventeen will introduce an online game for teen girls called “Editor’s Assistant.” Well-heeled parents not required for play. [WWD] • Daniel Menaker, the editor who signed Ben Kunkel and Gary Shteyngart, will step down as executive editor-in-chief at Random House. [NYT] • First they came for the book reviewers. Now it’s the classical music critics. [NYT]