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Remembering Peter Kaplan – and the late Renaissance of US journalism |...
Kaplan transformed the New York Observer and was part of the city's publishing elite during the magazine era's last golden agePeter Kaplan, who died on Friday at 59, of cancer, was an editor whose...
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Reading the New York Times Magazine isn't what it used to be | Michael Wolff
The magazine was once the most hotly anticipated Sunday read. Now it's been eclipsed by the showy T style publicationTwo magazines, both published by the New York Times, arrived in my house over the...
View ArticleIf Time Inc wants to survive, it should create its own ad agency | Michael Wolff
Michael Wolff: In the Darwinian battle between media, an in-house, clever advertising agency could save the flailing businessMichael Wolff
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Even the New York Times can't resist going lowbrow with native advertising |...
The Times wants to stand for quality controls and exclusivity, but it must compete with Buzzfeed and Gawker and the likeOne of the anomalies of digital journalism is a lack of clarity between high and...
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Rupert Murdoch: 10 reasons he'll be back and stronger than ever in 2014 |...
The media mogul hit a rough patch. But he'll look to strengthen the News Corp empire in the new year and likely thriveRupert Murdoch has confounded his biographers, helped cause the breakdown of his...
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Ezra Klein, Glenn Greenwald and the odd rise of personal brand journalism |...
Journalists are increasingly branching out on their own, but it's a risky business that has yet to really show profitabilityThere is a new vision of journalism – call it the auteur school – in which...
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New York's Museum of Modern Art: a case study in how to ruin a great...
MoMA's many expansions and redesigns have destroyed one of the most unique and precious public experiences of modern artWho is Glenn D Lowry?A particular modern problem is that megalomania, especially...
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How an old story was reborn in the Edward Snowden era | Michael Wolff
This isn't just a new age of political activism, but also of story telling activism. And stories are best told when people want themI had a perplexing deja vu moment on 7 January when the New York...
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Justin Bieber's not newsworthy, but who cares? He's online traffic gold |...
Media outlets no longer care if it's tabloid fodder as long as it brings pageviews. The Bieber tale is a kind of media mea culpaThe way down seems now to be as energetically charted as the way up....
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The Woody Allen - Dylan Farrow case: media spin for the Farrow family? |...
The debate over Allen's alleged abuse of Dylan played out in the media two decades ago. Very curious how it's back againNicholas Kristof, an op-ed columnist for the New York Times, has a singular...
View ArticleIn America's winner-take-all politics, New York is the new House of Cards |...
Michael Wolff: They may not be out for blood, but the warring styles of Andrew Cuomo and Bill de Blasio reveal a showdown of the momentMichael Wolff
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Netflix v Comcast: this is just a warm-up fight | Michael Wolff
The key question at stake is whether social media or video will be more lucrative to the media and tech giantsVideo is back. Actually, in a sense, old media is back.A week ago, Comcast announced a deal...
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Maybe Rupert Murdoch is right and print media will get one last heyday |...
Plenty of people are saying print is dead as Time Inc spins off from Time Warner and the Tribune Company sheds its papers. But there could still be profit to be made before the endKen Doctor, the noted...
View ArticleMH370 story is the new anti-journalism – all data, no real facts, endless...
Michael Wolff: Free conspiracies are for sale, with cautious restraint that propels the absence of truth. But you’re still obsessed, aren’t you?Michael Wolff
View ArticleJoe Scarborough + 2016 - any chance = the new math of running for president |...
Michael Wolff: The Morning Joe host has a book to sell, so he's got speculation to feed. So does Rand Paul – and everyone else who won't winMichael Wolff
View ArticleThe PR plan behind Ronan Farrow's incredible career
Mia Farrow's wunderkind now arrives with piquant speculation about Frank Sinatra's paternity. So why are we being played?For the inordinately ambitious, helping to build your offspring's resume is as...
View ArticleIs there any reason to still have print magazines? Time Inc hopes so
Time Inc is reshuffling its senior management team once again with Norman Pearlstine and Joe Ripp. Few expect it to succeedI don't know any younger media people, aka digital people, who would think...
View Article60 Minutes was on the decline long before the Benghazi story screw up
The media think the 60 Minutes mistake is an earth-shattering deal. In reality, the public is already skeptical of TV newsWith an aggrieved, lip-jutting, I-told-you-so tone, many media tweeters and...
View ArticleForbes is latest old media for sale with help from the New York Times
Forbes used articles in the Times to help create an illusion of success. In fact, illusion is what Forbes has largely becomeA week ago, Christine Haughney, who covers media for the New York Times,...
View ArticleCNBC to Maria Bartiromo: everyone is replaceable
Bartiromo is a voice and face from another time, when CEOs were gods and business news was like sports. That era is doneMaria Bartiromo grew up in the cable television business and became one of its...
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