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• Condé Nast to claim rights to their writers’ film and TV deals

  In an effort to capture more of the film and television profits from work that began on their pages, Condé Nast is negotiating new contracts that offer authors at Vogue,… Read more »

• New Yorker editor praises Adam Gopnik, thinks all critics “bullshit”

  “I sometimes wonder if Adam Gopnik was put on this earth to annoy,” James Walcott once wrote in the New Republic. “If so, mission accomplished.” Renata Adler, no friend of Walcott’s,… Read more »

• Fifth-graders correct Washington Post book review, editor calls correction “adorable”

  Above, Washington Post book reviewer Dennis Drabelle holds a letter from Mrs. Reed’s fifth grade class at Burning Tree Elementary School in Bethesda, Maryland. The letter points to an error in… 2 / Read more »

• Did a whip-cracking telecom CEO cause 35 employees to commit suicide?

  Didier Lombard, the former CEO of France Telecom, was charged this week with mental harassment in a complaint filed by a French labor union, which suggests that when Lombard oversaw… Read more »

• The two sides of David Carr

  In the Columbia Journalism Review, Michael Massing suggests that there are two important sides to New York Times media columnist David Carr: “a relentless interviewer” and “incisive analyst” and a… Read more »

• Obama’s new version of “Hope” involves a lot of bad words

  No judgment here, but it’s more than a little interesting that six of the anonymous sources who spoke to John Heilemann for his New York magazine story about President Obama’s reelection… 3 / Read more »

• SLIDE SHOW: Ten best cake heads of the Leveson Inquiry

  Oh, gleeful gleeful. What could possibly make the Murdoch comeuppance even sweeter? Cakes, I say, cakes! Miss Cakehead at Eat Your Heart Out, purveyors of deliciously bad-taste cakes, furnishes us… Read more »

• The curse of being profiled in The New Yorker

  In a Salon essay Alec Nevala-Lee suggests that a New Yorker profile may actually be a curse for Hollywood’s biggest talent, such that “whenever a New Yorker profile shows a… 1 / Read more »

• The Onion: Most read news source in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and New Mexico

  Jon Bruner of Forbes, with the assistance of Bitly, has created a fascinating map, which shows state by state where news sources are read and shared at above-average levels. Constructed from accumulated data,… Read more »