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New York Press Writer Appears on The Daily Show
Matt Taibbi plugged his new-ish book, "Spanking the Donkey," and spoke to Jon Stewart about covering the presidential race in a gorilla suit, working for the Bush campaign and the ways in which the press corps is like a bunch of high-school kids. Click here to go to Comedy Central's online video library and scroll down to find Taibbi's interview.
07-14-2005 2:13 pm |
Industry News
Tags: New York Press
NY Press Publisher Resignsnew
Chris Rohland resigned yesterday as president and publisher of New York Press, effective May 27. Rohland says he's leaving to "concentrate (his) energies to other projects, including the development of a sales training program" for other publications.
He also says that Avalon Equity, the owners of the Press, are not presently seeking to replace him, and that "members of the Avalon team will be overseeing operations until a decision on the publisher position has been made."
Gawker |
05-24-2005 5:56 pm |
Industry News
New York Press Publishes Its Annual "50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers" Issue
03-30-2005 9:53 am |
Press Releases
Tags: New York Press
New York Press Editor Quitsnew
Rather than accept a two-week suspension without pay, NY Press Editor in Chief Jeff Koyen resigned this morning. His departure comes on the heels of intense public criticism of a feature titled "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope" that ran in the paper last week. President and Publisher Chris Rohland tells Editor & Publisher that -- contrary to comments Koyen made to the Web site Gawker -- the suspension wasn't due to the Pope article itself but a related instance of insubordination.
Editor & Publisher |
03-07-2005 2:45 pm |
Industry News
New York Press Article Provokes Moral Outragenew
Lloyd Grove -- a gossip columnist, and one working at the New York Daily News -- found something in New York Press "shockingly offensive" and "nauseating." The offending article, written by Matt Taibbi, is titled "The 52 Funniest Things About the Upcoming Death of the Pope." Grove quotes some New York politicians who express their displeasure with the article. (Note: Recent estimates peg the percentage of New York's residents who identify themselves as Catholic at 40 percent.)
New York Daily News |
03-04-2005 12:20 pm |
Industry News
Tags: New York Press, Matt Taibbi
New York Press Co-Founder Says Weeklies "At a Crossroads"new
Russ Smith, founder of Baltimore City Paper and co-founder of New York Press, talks to Gawker about the state of alternative papers. He thinks the industry is dealing with "the brain drain of talented youngsters who, 20 years ago, would be fresh blood but are now involved with Internet projects." Smith then tells writers Andrew Krucoff and Chris Gage that editors hoping to sustain alt-weekly success need to "focus on the quality of writing, rather than knee-jerk politics and Quentin Tarantino hagiography."
Gawker |
09-24-2004 6:47 pm |
Industry News
NYP Earns Reputation As Ultimate Media Hatchetnew
In an interview with A.J. Daulerio of The Black Table, New York Press editor-in-chief Jeff Koyen doesn't disappoint those who expect from him "a certain level of infamy," as Daulerio puts it. Koyen claims the alt-weekly model "is dead or dying," and the aging, liberal editors of those "stale, homogenous products" have lost touch with the young. He admits the Press, too, was aging badly, but he's trying to convert it back into "a venue for emerging talent." The result is more and younger readers, he says.
The Black Table |
04-30-2004 10:03 am |
Industry News
Tags: New York Press
Alt-Weekly Intern Becomes Book Authornew
Marty Beckerman was in a Washington, D.C., bookstore in March pushing copies of his new book, "Generation S.L.U.T.: A Brutal Feel-Up Session with Today’s Sex-Crazed Adolescent Populace." Mike DeBonis reports on the early success of the 21-year-old American University student. While Beckerman was a summer intern at New York Press in 2002, then editor John Strausbaugh helped him connect with a literary agent. The young author tells Washington City Paper the deal he struck with MTV/Pocket Books should get him through a semester of college.
Washington City Paper |
04-01-2004 4:13 pm |
Industry News
NY Press Owner Launches New Sports Paper
Point-of-view reporting. A hip, irreverent
voice. In-depth coverage of local underdogs. And, of
course, free circulation. New York Sports
Express applies the elements of alternative
journalism to create a new kind of paper: the local
sports weekly. "No one else has done it -- and I like
the action of creating new product," says President
and Publisher Chuck Coletti. The paper's
goal, says Editor Spike Vrusho, is
"just to keep the way-too-serious sports fans
laughing."
(FULL STORY)
Whitney Joiner |
08-19-2003 12:54 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, New York Press
Americans in Prague Returning to New Yorknew
Jeff Koyen and Alex Zaitchik, American ex-pats in Prague (the Paris of the new millenium) are set to take over editorial management of New York Press this week, the New York Times reports. Koyen, formerly production manager at the Press, will become editor, and Zaitchik, who was running an iconoclastic newspaper, The Prague Pill, will be Koyen's deputy, the Times reports.
New York Times |
03-03-2003 10:47 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, New York Press
Russ Smith's College Daysnew
Johns Hopkins Magazine says Smith led a university newspaper staff "fueled by coffee,
beer, and drugs." Several former fellow underclassmen express shock that the devotee of Hunter Thompson has morphed into an acerbic conservative columnist. The alumni magazine calls the The New York Press, which Smith founded in 1988, "a gadfly: loud, vulgar, self-indulgent, disrespectful, and bracing." Smith's "Mugger" column "can veer from political
diatribe to vitriolic media critique to accounts of Smith's domestic
life, all in one week," Dale Keiger writes. Smith recently sold the paper and has plans to move from New York City to Baltimore.
Johns Hopkins Magazine |
02-14-2003 8:39 am |
Industry News
Tags: New York Press, Russ Smith
Owner of Gay Newspaper Chain Behind NY Press Purchasenew
New York-based Avalon Equity Partners is now the majority owner of both the New York Press and Window Media, which operates a number of gay weeklies, including the New York Blade News and the Washington Blade. Cynthia Cotts of The Village Voice writes that the gay media worries about Avalon's ownership, fearing a private equity company with no gay credentials will undermine the integrity of their product. David W. Unger, co-founder
and managing partner of Avalon, insists that neither the Press nor the gay publications will lose their identities simply by being connected through a mutual investor. Unger says the Press should make money "with just a little hands-on management."
Village Voice |
01-14-2003 3:57 pm |
Industry News
New York Press Owners Staying with Smith's Editorial Mix
Chuck Colletti and Doug Meadow, the new owners of the New York Press, tell AAN News they don't plan any changes in its eclectic mix of politics, arts and commentary. They have made what they describe as "a few" staff reductions, fired Editor John Strausbaugh and promoted former Managing Editor Lisa Kearns to that position. As for taking on The Village Voice, they say the Press will compete with, but can't dethrone, that venerable alt-weekly.
(FULL STORY)
Ann Hinch |
01-08-2003 12:11 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Management, New York Press
New York Press is Soldnew
Founder and Editor-in-Chief Russ Smith yesterday sold his iconoclastic weekly to a pair of publishing entrepreneurs for "around $5 million," according to the New York Post. New owners Chuck Coletti and Doug Meadow say they don't plan to do much on the editorial front, besides firing vacationing Editor John Strausbaugh as soon as they can find him. Smith will continue to write his "Mugger" column.
New York Post |
12-24-2002 11:48 am |
Industry News
Strausbaugh's a "Rock Star"new
Taffy Akner interviews New York
Press Editor John Strausbaugh for
mediabistro.com and finds it "hard to tell
if
Strausbaugh is the coolest dude
ever... or
the world's biggest geek."
Conclusion? Whatever, he's a rock star.
mediabistro.com |
10-01-2002 4:57 pm |
Industry News
