Category Archives: Media

The New York Times announced today that it’s raising its newsstand price in its home city by 33%, to $1. (Sundays will stay at $3.) The price jump comes on top of a 15-cent price hike in September 1999, bringing … Continue reading →

When Tina Brown signed her ex-boyfriend Martin Amis to the nascent Talk Miramax Books, she certainly knew there was a memoir in the pipeline; a collection of reviews and essays was part of the deal as well. But after that, … Continue reading →

Jim Romenesko’s superlative Media News blog has long been one of the first sites I visit every morning. It’s interesting not only for the stories it links to but also as a measure of what’s considered important in the US … Continue reading →

David Brock, meet Dave Itzkoff. Dave is a bit like you: he used to be blind, but now he sees! Except he hasn’t changed his political allegiance, he’s just quit his job at Maxim. And written a piece for the … Continue reading →

It’s hard to find halfways-decent magazines these days, and when, like me, you’ve gone on one airline journey already this month, the range of reading materials at Orange County airport can start to look rather thin. Which is how I … Continue reading →

As any regular Romenesko reader knows, the New York Times Magazine has fired a contributing editor, Michael Finkel, for using "improper narrative techniques" in his profile of a Malian teenager who worked on a cocoa plantation. The basic facts of … Continue reading →

Michael Kinsley is no longer editor of Slate. He gave up that post amidst rather a lot of publicity last week, saying that he would continue at the online magazine as a columnist. That was good news: Kinsley, when he’s … Continue reading →

Cast your mind back, if you will, one month. The bestseller lists at the time were dominated by right-wing screeds; Michael Kinsley even wrote a column about it, which is helpful, because we can use it to remember where those … Continue reading →

Be worried about the decline of magazine journalism in this country. Talk might not have achieved a cohesive identity, but at least it did run some well-written pieces. To see what Tina Brown was reacting against, I suggest you pick … Continue reading →

Sullivan has now gone mad. Just after 7:00 this evening, he posted no fewer than four new pieces on l’affair Krugman – an affair, I hasten to add, which he single-handedly created. He seems to be an expert at following … Continue reading →

I went out and bought the final issue of Talk yesterday. I wondered if, with hindsight, one might be able to look at it and see where it went wrong. I thought I would read through the articles and try … Continue reading →

When I interviewed Tina Brown just after the first issue came out, she told me that "people didn’t necessarily know they wanted something, but I think that when you produce something that is entertaining, smart, fresh and new, they will … Continue reading →

I can get my life back now: I finally finished The Corrections last night. It’s a great book, it has some amazing virtuoso writing in it, and it certainly kept me up until 5 in the morning more than once. … Continue reading →

New Yorker fact-checkers, where are you? In the big lead story in this week’s issue, Jon Lee Anderson’s profile of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, we find this: World Bank or International Monetary Fund austerity packages in return for debt renegotiation … Continue reading →

Anyone interested in what Glenda Bailey has done to Harper’s Bazaar is advised not to bother picking up the latest issue, hitting newsstands now. The September issue of any women’s magazine is something of a flagship, but the powers that … Continue reading →

It’s Pride Week this week, that time of year when opinion-formers’ minds turn to the status of gays in society. And helpfully, the Wall Street Journal editorial page is here to give them a little pastoral guidance. [The narrowness of … Continue reading →

1. There are ten columns, and five categories. "Women seeking men" takes up 8.5 columns; "Men seeking women" takes up slightly less than one; "Men seeking men" is about half a column. "Women seeking women" and "Recreation and hobbies partner" … Continue reading →

Noticed two extremes in anonymous sourcing in daily newspapers today, both annoying. The first comes from the Guardian: A source close to Mr Smith said he understood that the museum, which incorporates the South Kensington Museum, the National Museum of … Continue reading →

In the past week or so, we’ve seen David Kirkpatrick of the New York Times profile Dave Eggers, and Michael Wolff of New York magazine profile Andrew Sullivan. Both pieces were, rightly or wrongly, perceived as hatchet-jobs by their subjects, … Continue reading →