“Some marketers have been left wondering if facts and reason matter less than they expected.” The sentence is a bit shocking. It seems to signal a sea change in an… Read more »

In bold letters at the top of their Kickstarter page, journalist cooperative Deca states: “We write for magazines. Now we’d like to write for you.” Deca is a group of… Read more »

When The New Yorker was founded, in 1925, by Harold Ross, it was conceived as both a bastion and a parody of cosmopolitan sophistication: As Ross famously put it in… Read more »

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 »

“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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »