Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s Wife Named Editor of Huffington Post France
Le Huffington Post has found an editorial director in Anne Sinclair, wife of former I.M.F. director turned perp walk all-star Dominique Strauss-Kahn, reports L'Express.
Word reportedly got out because invitations to the site's launch party on Monday listed Ms. Sinclair as a host. The Huffington Post France, like El Huffington Post, is a collaboration between the AOL-owned blog behemoth and a local paper, in its case, Le Monde. Read More
Reuters Will Give Us a Look at All Those Columnists They’re Hoarding
Today Reuters launched Reuters TV, a YouTube news channel. Read More
Book Smart: Publisher of ‘The Help’ and Her Eye for Bestsellers
New York editors and publishers tend to speak of Amy Einhorn’s success as the product of an almost mystical editorial instinct. Colleagues cite Ms. Einhorn’s “good taste;” her nose, her eye, and her gut; her unique ability to pinpoint the kinds of books that thousands of people want to read. Most Read More
Morning Links: ABC No Longer Working It
Huffington Post Twitter Account Hacked–Homophobic and Racist Tweets Ensue
The Huffington Post's Twitter account was hacked Sunday afternoon and it wasn't even fun, just offensive. In a rapid-fire series of tweets containing grandiloquent soliloquies like "hello gay boys" and "lol wes is a gay boy," a hacker who claimed the nom de hack "cloverfdch" locked the feed down tight, amusing and puzzling HuffPo's 1.5 million or so followers for several minutes until he was locked out again and HuffPo resumed tweeting links to its posts as if nothing had happened. Read More
Bloomberg Loses $12 M Customer, Gains 5 Journalists
Here's one unexpected (but tough to pity) victim of the MF Global meltdown: Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
When the brokerage filed for bankruptcy, Bloomberg LP lost 600 terminal subscribers, or about $1 million in monthly revenue, The New York Times reports, causing the company to miss target sales by 12 percent and possibly taking a toll on bonuses. Read More
Amazon Has an Throbbing, Heaving Erotica Problem, But Not the One You Think
As students of Gothic literature and Keanu Reeves fans know, Bram Stoker's Dracula is that rare classic that offers a high-brow cover for what is essentially a sex romp through Transylvania. As author Maria Cruz found, it also makes for good plagiarizing.
You see, when Amazon opened up its Kindle Select program to indie publishers and self-published authors, it left the door ajar for plagiarists. As Adam Penenberg points out in Fast Company, that problem is particularly rampant in the erotica genre.
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New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson: Successfully Trolled by Ombudsman
Along with quite a few other people, New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson has now been successfully trolled by Times Public Editor Arthur Brisbane, having dignified the paper's ombudsman tonight with a response after he incited a brouhaha of populist outrage with a poorly-worded column published earlier today. Read More
Andrew Ross Sorkin and New York Times Dealbook Writers Plagued by Cloud of Meat Stench
You would think: There you are, you've made it to the New York Times. You, with all of your hard-work, talent, and moxie have lead yourself to a place Gay Talese identified—in the title of his book on the place—as The Kingdom. And how majestic is it, this Renzo Piano building. Nothing can stop you now.
Except for the persistent smell of burning animal flesh beginning from the moment you get to work. Read More
Bloomberg’s Lizzie O’Leary Moves to CNN on Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Beat (Created for Her!)
Beloved Bloomberg on-air blonde bombshell Lizzie O'Leary (who once hid behind the mic at N.P.R.) is parting ways with the financial news service, and hitting it big time: the Observer Media Power Bachelorette is on her way to CNN, where she'll be reporting on-air for the cable news giant on aviation and transportation regulations. Read More
The Financial Times Wants Readers to Join Their ‘Off The Record’ Teatime!
Here's a fantastically odd way to interact with your readers: Invite them for an "informal" and "off the record" "tea", wherein, they use said readers as a focus group for their product! Read More
Salon’s Matt Zoller Seitz Named Television Critic at New York
Matt Zoller Seitz was named television critic at New York magazine, editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today. Mr. Seitz, most recently the television critic at Salon, replaces Emily Nussbaum, who took the same position at the New Yorker. Prior to Salon, Mr. Seitz was a critic at the Star-Ledger and The New York Times. Read More
Awl City: The Awl Launches Awl Music, Tumblr-Powered Video-Radio Station for Awl Their Friends
Longreads-approved website The Awl—run by Radar, Observer, and Gawker expats Alex Balk and Choire Sicha—is coming up on its third anniversary! Since they've launched, they've spun off three blogs from the mothership, general ladies'-interest site The Hairpin, comedy blog Splitsider, and most recently, gadget blog The Wirecutter.
And as of today, they've now launched a...Tumblr...radio station...of music videos, AwlMusic.TV. DJ'd by them, and run by Eric Spiegelman, he of Old Jews Telling Jokes.
Maybe it's just best to let them explain. Read More
Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof Building His Own FarmVille
New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof is building a humanitarian Facebook game, according to a Q&A with Fast Company. The game is pegged to the release of the TV documentary version of Half the Sky (the book he co-authored with his wife), scheduled for the end of this year. Mr. Kristof said it Read More
