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Could NBC Offer Enough to Lure Ryan Seacrest Off the West Coast and Onto...
Ryan Seacrest: New York resident? (Getty Images) With a fair amount of speculation and anonymous sourcing, The Wall Street Journal reported today that Ryan Seacrest may take over for Today show host...
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Katie Couric Returning To Morning TV
Katie Couric (Getty Images) Onetime queen of the morning Katie Couric is reclaiming her throne–for one short week. She’ll be guest-hosting Good Morning America for the week beginning April 2, as part...
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East is East: The Beginning of the Season and the Hamptons Magazine Party...
Matt Lauer(s) The sweltering pre-summer heat has begun to settle upon our fair city. In the season during which New York’s every nook and cranny teems with sweaty tourists, true city folk gather their...
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Highlights: Matt Lauer Gets the Pimp Hand of Manhattan’s Soccer Mom Madam on...
If you thought the tale of Anna Gristina—the soccer mom accused of being the ruthless leader of a prostitution ring catering to wealthy, powerful clients that’s supposedly corrupted New York City’s...
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Ann Curry Lawyered Up for Transition from Today
Ms. Curry at Cannes. Today host Ann Curry has hired attorney Robert Barnett to represent her in negotiations with NBC as the network transitions her to a new job within the company, reports The New...
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NBC’s Broadcast of The Olympics Opening Ceremony Was The Worst [Video]
Olympic flame (screengrab) Slumdog Millionaire director Danny Boyle crafted an epic opening ceremony for the 2012 Summer Olympics. It was filled with uniquely British pageantry, drama, great music and...
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Al Roker Awkwardly Bitch-Slaps Matt Lauer on ‘Today’ Over Ann Curry Firing...
Al Roker, spicy (NBC) Who would have thought Al Roker had a snarky side? During Today’s segment this morning on the Olympic women’s rowing team, the usually jolly Mr. Roker made a thinly veiled dig at...
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Matt Lauer: ‘Anchor Animal’
Matt Lauer is not taking Today’s low ratings well – in fact, he has turned into an “anchor animal,” reports the Post. Apparently, Mr. Lauer is trying to fix the show by “basically executive-producing,”...
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Daily Caller Identifies America’s Most ‘Punchable’ Journalists
Daily Caller Entertainment Editor Taylor Bigler apparently wants to punch several other members of the media. This afternoon, Ms. Bigler created a slideshow of the “Top 10 most punchable faces in...
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Big Apple Idolatry: Channing Tatum Is Sexy?
Channing Tatum, People‘s Sexiest Man Alive. – Wait, does giving Channing Tatum People‘s “Sexiest Man Alive” superlative mean that it’s not going to Ryan Gosling? Again? If not, why not, and why...
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Big Apple Idolatry: Guy Fieri vs. Pete Wells
Guy Fieri is so upset! (NBC) – Jay Z was not “right next to De Niro” the other night at Leonardo DiCaprio’s birthday. The Taxi Driver star gave the Jigga a Meet the Fockers-level awkward greeting when...
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To Do Thursday: Black and White and Silver
Happy Birthday to us! The New York Observer is a quarter of a century old, and publisher Jared Kushner and CEO Joseph Meyer have assembled a bonzo boldfaced lineup of NYC’s most fabulous hosts to fête...
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Clink! Flash! Bottoms Up! The Observer Says ‘Au Revoir, Salmon!’ at...
We’re at Casa Lever for the Observer redesign party, and Richard Johnson is coaching us on what to ask the guests. “Ask everyone if their name ever appeared in the Observer,” he says. So we turn to...
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Morning Media Mix: After a Great Victory, a Great Loss
Lewis Katz in 2011. (Patrick McMullan Company) Lewis Katz, who just won control of the Philadelphia Inquirer with business partner H.F. Lenfest on Tuesday, died at the age of 72 on Saturday night in a...
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Morning Media Mix: Childish Squabbling
Vanity Fair‘s article earlier this week about the critical and public reception to Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch reduces all literary criticism to childish squabbling, Evan Hughes writes. (The New...
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Facebook Attempts Profundity, Ends Up Explaining the Meaning of Chairs
Facebook has just reached its billionth monthly active user. On this momentous numerical occasion, the company has released its first “brand
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Forget About It: Amnesia Isn’t Just a Jason Bourne Disorder
Like others before him, Edgar Latulip had to live with real life memory loss for decades.
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Journalists Pay Tribute to Morley Safer on Twitter
The legendary newsman died today at the age of 84, just a week after retiring from 60 Minutes.
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‘No question’ Bridgegate hurt his presidential prospects, Christie says
Coming off a two-day tour of the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, Gov. Chris Christie said today that there's "no question" the scandal surrounding the closing of lanes at the George...
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At Fox News, It’s Chaos and Free Ads for Donald Trump
TV news actress Megyn Kelly opens with Clinton email 'scandal' and ends with 'the world is falling apart.'
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