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Ivanka Trump Now Brought To You By Trump, Sponsored By Trump
4:56AM Brian Moylan | Ivanka Trump is having a book party! Where? Trump Tower, of course. Who’s sponsoring? Trump Vodka, natch. Who do sales of The Trump Card at the event benefit? Oh, the Eric Trump Foundation. Talk about keeping it in the family! More »
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Anna Wintour Speaks Out On McKinsey Firings And Federer Fetish
8:15AM Foster Kamer | Intrepid reporter John Kolbin of the New York Observer caught Anna Wintour at the U.S. Open watching her crush Roger Federer’s match against Lleyton Hewitt. He asked Wintour the two don’t-ask-don’t-tell talking points on everyone’s mind: McKinsey and Federer. Results? More »
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Jared Kushner Ready To Exit The New York Observer?
4:52AM Hamilton Nolan | Back in April we floated some rumours that NYC’s youngest media mogul Jared Kushner was anxious to extricate himself from owning the New York Observer. Now, we hear, Kushner’s still searching for ways out. More »
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Jared Kushner’s Plan To Grab All That Copious Real Estate Advertising
5:30AM Hamilton Nolan | Jared Kushner’s New York Observer has always been heavily reliant on real estate advertising. It’s been hurt as much as anyone by the collapse of the stateside real estate market. So Kushner is launching a new real estate paper. What? More »
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NYTimes.com Web Editors Don’t Give A Damn About Traffic
8:10PM the cajun boy | The Observer’s Gillian Reagan wrote an interesting piece on how the content is managed at NYTimes.com. Reagan spoke to the Times executives who manage the paper’s website; two guys who don’t seem to understand the web all that well. More »
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Stephen Colbert To Guest Edit Newsweek
3:14PM the cajun boy | In a move that sort of reeks of desperation more than it does slick publishing PR, US Newsweek’s Jon Meacham announced that political satirist and tv host Stephen Colbert will be the magazine’s guest editor for the issue hitting newsstands on June 8. More »
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New York Mag’s Peter Kaplan Tribute: “Perfect”
12:30PM Foster Kamer | Longtime New York Observer editor-in-chief Peter Kaplan’s 15-year tenure ended yesterday; last night, Jesse Oxfeld compiled a great, 2,000 word piece of quotes and anecdotes on Kaplan, which Daily Intel ran. It is, as one commenter noted, perfect. My three favourite quotes, after the jump: More »
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