48 posts and columns on New York magazine
Hollow Verbiage
But cable news generates verbiage in this hollow mode, minute after minute, hour after hour, when people are forced to speak even though they have nothing to say. It’s inherent in the enterprise. In most of what it does, continuous real-time broadcast news is a failed experiment.
— James Gleick on news coverage in the wake of the Boston bombings
New York Magazine Captures the Look of Post-Sandy New York
A magazine cover that defined the week.Voices
Can Marissa Mayer Really Have It All?
There comes a moment in every very ambitious person’s life when she sees with perfect clarity that the path before her is blocked. For Marissa Mayer, Google employee No. 20 and Silicon Valley’s reigning “geek queen,” this moment occurred last year, when her former boyfriend, Google co-founder Larry Page, kicked her off the company’s elite operating committee, to which she had been appointed the previous year.Sincerely, Mark Zuckerberg
… Facebook bought the thing that is hardest to fake. It bought sincerity.
— Paul Ford, writing about FaceTagram in New York Magazine
News Byte
DailyCandy Editor Janet Ozzard Out After 8 Months
Anyone want to run DailyCandy? The influential shopping newsletter needs a new editor in chief: Janet Ozzard, the New York Magazine veteran brought in to run the place in March, is out. DailyCandy confirms that Ozzard’s last day was Tuesday, but won’t comment on her departure other than to wish her the best. The newsletter, purchased by Comcast for $125 million in 2008, hasn’t named a successor.News Byte