Murdoch uses Twitter to tout Santorum
Rupert Murdoch opened a Twitter account over the weekend, and while the octogenarian mogul is no @justinbieber (who has 16 million followers) his tweets @rupertmurdoch did draw lots of media attention…
Gersh exits Brooklyn Paper to run CUNY-NYTimes ‘Local’
Brooklyn Paper Editor Gersh Kuntzman may not be joining the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism staff with the rank of full professor, but in my mind he’ll always be THE…
NOTW editor calls bosses ‘scum’
Former News of the World deputy editor Paul McMullan told a Parliamentry committee that his bosses were “scum” — but only because they haven’t proudly admitted to their deeds. Visit…
Gersh eats dog food
What can I say? He’s pushing for another award. For Brooklyn Paper editor Gersh Kuntzman and Courier-Life editor Vince DiMiceli (seated behind Gersh in the video) the news is born…
Bill O’Reilly to President Obama: “Does it disturb you that so many people hate you?”
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly was relatively civil [by O'Reilly standards] to President Obama during his live 15-minute pre-game one-on-one. But O’Reilly can’t help himself — he was repetitively argumentative, stepping…
Newspaper war in Brooklyn
Who says newspapers are dead? An old-fashioned newspaper war is expected to get underway any day now in Brooklyn, NY. I’d be remiss in not reporting on it, since I…
Gersh Kuntzman and the future of journalism
Gersh Kuntzman, a standout community editor, was running with a Flip before Al Gore invented the internet (I exaggerate, but so does Gersh — usually to good effect). Any reporter who…
Stepping into the future
While News Corp is best known in the US for Fox films and Fox TV, the company has lots of newsprint on its hands as well (including the NY Post,…
Headless woman
One of my kids asked me the other day why the NY Post — which we have home-delivered, so they see it over breakfast — had used a celebrity photo…