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Wall Street Journal Takes On Local News

6:12AM Hamilton Nolan | The Wall Street Journal is planning to hire a dozen new staffers to cover local news in NYC, Media Decoder reports. Let us point out every last implication to this news! More »
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Bloomberg-ing Of BusinessWeek Begins: Editor Out

8:45AM Ryan Tate | Steve Adler resigned as editor in chief of BusinessWeek, the New York Post’s Keith Kelly reports, effective as soon as Bloomberg LP completed its expected takeover of the McGraw-Hill magazine. This was to be expected. More »
Music

Become Record Label To Rappers Who Hate Record Labels

6:46AM Ryan Tate | Working with internet startup Sellaband, Public Enemy hopes to turn its fans into investors, bucking The Man in the process. For as little as $US25, you too can become a greedy record executive. Just like those slammed by Public Enemy. More »
Online

Arianna’s Newest Knight In Shining Armour

4:34AM Ryan Tate | We always found it strange the Huffington Post was unprofitable, what with the Web juggernaut’s traffic growth, editorial accomplishments and army of unpaid writers. It turns out HuffPo’s investors thought that was weird too. Time for a new ad man. More »
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Anna Wintour’s Daughter Is A Poor Theater Hobo

4:17AM Hamilton Nolan | Bee Shaffer is the daughter of Anna Wintour, Queen of All America. Despite that fact she cannot “find” a job”, allegedly? It’s because she keeps it too real, yall. More »
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The Only Qualification For Teen Vogue Interns

1:08AM Hamilton Nolan | Teen Vogue is cannily taking advantage of the widespread yearning to work in fashion by publishing a new “Handbook” which says—we’re paraphrasing—”You will fail. Fashion sucks.” But the NYT digs up one solitary useful piece of advice. More »
People

Dov Charney Is Sad To Fire You

12:48AM Hamilton Nolan | Earlier this summer, American Apparel got in a wee bit of trouble with the Immigration Service because one third of the company’s LA factory workers were illegal. Now those workers are fired. Dov Charney wrote them a sad letter goodbye. More »
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Young Reporters Are Fired

7:20AM Hamilton Nolan | Are you a newspaper reporter under the age of 35? No, because if you were, you would be fired immediately. More »
People

This Woman Is Probably Not Representative Of Gen Y

11:34AM Jess McGuire | So last night on the news I learned that people are worried about Gen Y because we just don’t like holding onto jobs, apparently. And then I read the following article from the Sunday Telegraph which features a woman supposedly representative of her generation. I don’t think so. More »
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Wanted: Gossip Lord Rupert Murdoch Seeks Handmaiden

6:35AM Ryan Tate | World’s most powerful newspaper gossip column seeks promising scandalmonger among unwashed Twitter hoardes to replace second in command. Willingness to smear boss’ enemies a must, as is an ability to hold your liquor and hang out in strip clubs. More »