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Wednesday, September 23, 2009
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Conde Nast: 25% Cuts, Layoffs Loom. Except At The New Yorker!

11:33PM Hamilton Nolan | For weeks now, a scary number has been floating through the hallowed halls of Conde Nast: 25%. That’s how much the gossipmongers speculated McKinsey would chop the company’s budget. Evil rumours! Now it looks like that frightening number was correct. More »
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Small Screen

WWF Actually Did Know About 9/11 Ad

1:46AM Hamilton Nolan | Just to make sure everyone is extremely clear on who did what here: the World Wildlife Fund is not just an innocent victim of a bad rogue ad agency in this whole 9/11 ad fiasco. More »
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Saturday, May 30, 2009
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Secret Newspaper Conspiracy Meeting Probably Not Illegal

1:31AM Hamilton Nolan | Yesterday, executives from most of America’s biggest newspapers held a hush-hush meeting about the future of their dying industry. Isn’t that basically, obviously, a huge violation of antitrust laws, probably? No, thanks to the corporatefreedom-supporting US Court! More »
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Online

NYTs ‘Social Media Editor’ Playing Out Exactly As Suspected

5:27AM Hamilton Nolan | Today the New York Times named Jennifer Preston its first-ever “Social Media Editor.” We speculated she would do comical stuffy-NYT-meets-freewheeling-internet activities like cracking down on newsroom Twitterers (and maybe trying out this “Twitter” herself?). We were correct: More »
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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New Boss In Control At OK! Magazine

7:45AM Hamilton Nolan | Here’s something unexpected: angry insiders tipping us off about US OK! Magazine’s management shuffle! Jason Oliver Nixon is now running things, they say: More »
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Vale Natasha Richardson

1:23PM Jess McGuire | Terribly sad news – award winning actress Natasha Richardson, recently injured in a ski accident in Canada and flown to New York hospital where her had family gathered to say their goodbyes, has passed away at 45. Reports The New York Times: More »
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

DJ AM Makes First Public Appearance Since Plane Crash at Memorial Service

8:40AM Kyle Buchanan | Released from the hospital this past Friday, DJ AM yesterday made his first public appearance since the plane crash that claimed the lives of four people and left the musician and his friend Travis Barker badly burned. One of those victims was Chris “Lil’ Chris” Baker, Barker’s assistant, and it was his memorial service that drew DJ AM back into the public eye. More »
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