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The Vice Guide to Serious Journalism: How a DIY Drug Mag Became Serious...
Shane Smith, in the thick of it for VICE (Vice/HBO) When Shane Smith, one of the founders of Vice Media, pitched a television show to MTV in 2010, it seemed unimaginable that the company that came out...
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Up At The Old Salon
Steve Kornacki discusses House of Cards. (Photo via Salon). Last week, OTR found ourselves at a “salon” hosted by the pioneering webmag, Salon. The conceit of a “salon” harks back either to French wits...
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Changes Afoot at the Daily News
Daily News HQ at 4 New York Plaza (Photo credit: CoStar). When the Daily News staff returns to the paper’s offices at 4 New York Plaza following a lengthy absence—resulting from extensive Superstorm...
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Real Estate Scion Sells $8.85 M. Park Avenue Pad to Acquavella Art Heiress
No Picassos in sight, though we're sure Ms. Acquavella Dejoux can fix that. Acquavella Galleries may have expanded beyond its wheelhouse of Italian Renaissance works in the 1960s, but for Eleanor...
View ArticleChristine Quinn Decries “Sick, Sexist” Hudson Yards Critic in 2002 Phone...
As a page one New York Times story about Christine Quinn‘s short temper made the rounds yesterday, a recording of the mayoral candidate’s feisty voice mails from 2002 were uploaded to YouTube. Ms....
View ArticleBloomberg Tells Press to Stop Asking About His Mayoral Endorsement
Mayor Michael Bloomberg would really prefer if reporters would cease inquiring about which candidate he’ll ultimately endorse in the race to replace him this year. And he conveyed that message again...
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NY1 Traffic Reporter Jamie Shupak Uses Visine [Video]
Jamie Shupak puts on makeup. (Photo: Racked). Ever wonder what NY1's traffic reporter (and Brian Stelter gf) Jamie Shupak does before she goes on air? Well, Racked NY, the shopping and beauty blog...
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Bruce Willis Pays $8.8 M. for U2 Bassist Adam Clayton’s El Dorado Pad
We hope Mr. Willis has a more pleasurable stay at the El Dorado than he had at Nakatomi Plaza. Last time Bruce Willis tangled with a tower, his Die Hard character escaped from the clutches of a German...
View ArticleLooks Like Google Glass Will Be Assembled on American Soil
Hey America, don’t say Google never did anything for you: Looks like Google Glass will be made right here in the good old U. S. of A. That’s according to the Financial Times says, citing sources...
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Stopping the Next Steubenville
If you see something, say something. That paranoid punch line of a public service campaign has worked: nobody looks the same way at a stray backpack on the subway, and we just might call the cops....
View ArticleZynga New York Is Back With a New Game at No. 3 in the Apple App Store
Zynga New York hasn’t always had the chummiest relationship with Zynga’s corporate office back in San Francisco. The East Coast outpost was formed a year ago after Mark Pincus acquired OMGPOP and its...
View ArticleAmazon: ‘Okay, Fine, We Have Nerd Shows, Too’
No sooner did Netflix announce its new science fiction show Sense8 than Amazon made its own original content announcement: The company will be developing Betas, a comedy pilot about startup nerds. This...
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Slate’s John Swansburg Likes Good Cover Letters, Doesn’t Like Zombies
John Swansburg. (Photo: Slate). Slate's editorial director John Swansburg was on Reddit today, answering readers' questions, which the counterintuitive webmag handily made into an easily digestible...
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Mom Buys Two-year-old $6.5 million Condo, Puts Your Bugaboo to Shame
One57 Remember the days when a Barbie Dream House seemed like a splurge? This week, a Chinese mother paid $6.5 million for a condo in Midtown’s One57 for her two-year old daughter to use when she goes...
View ArticleGoogle Implements Real-Time Subway Data, Destroying Another Excuse for Brunch...
Expect a marked drop in “running 15 late sorrrrrrryyyy don’t hate meee ” texts thanks to a new feature on Google Maps that shows real-time travel updates on its desktop and mobile products. Google is...
View ArticleDeposed Jetsetter CEO Drew Patterson Named the CEO of Room 77, a Hotel Search...
Skift broke the news today that former Jetsetter cofounder Drew Patterson was named the new CEO of Room 77, a hotel price comparison startup that raised almost $44 million in funding from investors...
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Bye Bye, Barbara: Trailblazing TV Journalist to Retire Next Year
Barbara Walters (Photo: Getty Images) Earlier today, Deadline's Nellie Andreeva learned that Barbara Walters, the 83-year-old trailblazing TV journalist, would announce her retirement in May of next...
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MSNBC Anchor Chris Hayes Uses Quotas
Chris Hayes. (Photo: MSNBC). MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes uses racial and gender quotas to make sure that his show Up with Chris Hayes (which he announced he is leaving for primetime earlier this month) is...
View ArticleAmazon Is Buying Goodreads; Draw Your Own End-of-Literature Conclusions
As if anyone in the publishing industry needed another reason to view Amazon with suspicion and alarm: Today the goliath announced it’s acquiring literary-themed social networking site Goodreads. Head...
View ArticleL.E.S. Report: Application for 2,300 S.F. of Commercial Space on Orchard St.,...
The times continue to change on the once-scruffy Lower East Side. Last month, the Leather Gallery of New York, a vestige of Orchard Street’s historic discount shopping district, moved down the block...
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