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Michael Sitrick will be your best friend and your worst enemy. Michael Sitrick notices when you got a fact wrong in your story. He won’t yell at you, though. He’s good that way. Michael Sitrick always takes your questions and you can just call him Mike. Mike is easy to love and easier to fear....
Every morning that I’m not hungover, I wake up around 8am, because that is when my two cats start howling for breakfast. I feed them, make coffee, and walk barefoot and unwashed (mug in hand) through my apartment building’s common hallway to the front door, where I pick up my New York Times and my...
I originally intended my column—“¡Hola Papi!,” a couch surfer that now appears in Out magazine—as a spoof on advice columns. (I pitched it to editors as “Latinx Dear Abby, but huffing poppers.”) It would be for a diverse, queer audience, on the trials of dating and the challenges that arise in navigating friendships. Then letters started...
Debra Bearden, a real estate agent in Mount Olive, Alabama, wants her news right down the middle. “Just tell me the facts,” she says. She considers herself right of center politically—a CNN and Fox watcher, never MSNBC (“They’re a bunch of loonies over there”). Not long ago, she went on Facebook to dis AL.com, the...
In late January, over the course of a week, a lousy journalism job market became truly awful. About 1,000 journalists learned they were being laid off, at BuzzFeed, HuffPost, and Gannett, marking a grim record for an industry that has...
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On February 11, news broke that Millennium Films was delaying Bryan Singer’s Red Sonja, which was to begin production this year. This was, on the face of it, a remarkable turn of events. Singer’s Queen biopic, Bohemian Rhapsody, had just...
Cohen says Donald Trump was doing "catch and kill" deals with David Pecker and American Media Inc. "long before I started working for him in 2007." pic.twitter.com/9PeC71Opqj
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 27, 2019
White House limits press access at Trump-Kim meeting after reporters asked questions about Michael Cohen https://t.co/7xZSAoYfER pic.twitter.com/czW7rtwnin
— CNN Business (@CNNBusiness) February 27, 2019
CBS affiliate in San Francisco says its news crew was robbed and a security guard shot while covering the Oakland teachers strike. https://t.co/8fgSMTJBEc
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 25, 2019
A new book on Khashoggi's murder, written by an anonymous ex-FT reporter, claims the journalist had intelligence on Trump which was a threat to Saudi Arabia (@mark_chandler / The Bookseller)https://t.co/j6k6T8wfvdhttps://t.co/mc6tFcAa23
— Mediagazer (@mediagazer) February 25, 2019
The New York Times’ newsroom — still twice the size of the rival Washington Post — will grow even more this year. https://t.co/ANWN5Ra18V
— Nieman Lab (@NiemanLab) February 25, 2019