Topic: Jacob Weisberg
My commenters are pretty unanimous that I shouldn't have published Friday's post on Bob Rubin. For there's more than enough Rubin debate to go around, especially now that Jacob Weisberg, who co-wrote Rubin's memoir, has published an essay ...
Pulitzer Board elects Politico co-founder first member from primarily online news organizationThe Pulitzer Prize Board has elected its first member representing a primarily online news organization, keeping in step with the board's recent decision to allow entries from more online sites ...
A book offering lessons from history on how a few bankers can bankrupt the world made it onto the shortlist of Britain's most prestigious non-fiction prize today.. The six-strong shortlist for this year's Samuel Johnson prize covers topics ranging from ...
"I've been wanting for some time to test out the idea that Slate, as a brand, can replicate a high-quality magazine on the internet outside of the U.S. context," Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg told me. - if it works in ...
This week's award for best disclosure statement goes to The Big Money's Chadwick Matlin, who included this helpful paragraph in yesterday's Michael Lewis: Lewis career owes much to the tutelage of Michael Kinsley, co-founder of Slate and a man ...
GRADUATE STUDENTS SPOT A $100 BILL ON the sidewalk, and their economics professor decides to teach them a lesson in efficient-market theory -- duly informing them: For example, commenting on the financial crisis in a recent article ("Where Do We Go From Here ...
Media Mob has learned that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer will write a new column for Slate beginning tomorrow. "He's going to be doing a regular thing," said Jacob Weisberg, the editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. Cliff Sloan, the former ...
Eliot Spitzer, the former governor of New York who has kept a low profile since it was revealed he was frequenting call girls, has been hired to write a regular column for Internet magazine Slate.Spitzer's first article, critical of the ...
NEW YORK-During a wide-ranging discussion entitled "The Media and the Presidency" hosted by the Week magazine at Rockefeller Center's Rainbow Room last night, six panelists-three from television (MSNBC's Joe Scarborough, 60 Minutes' Lesley Stahl and ex-CBS News anchor Dan Rather ...
) Slate, the Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive's wonky, contrarian Web site of politics and pop culture, isn't a sitcomif it were, Christopher Hitchens would surely be Archie Bunkerbut it's launching a spinoff of its own today with The Big Money, a ...