Eliot Spitzer has a new job! John Koblin reports that starting tomorrow, the scandalized ex-guv is going to be writing a column for Slate called "The Best Policy." It will be about "the financial crisis and fixing financial markets and the economy generally," and will almost certainly be very informative (Spitzer was once a populist hero, remember!) and very boring. Because really, do you think Spitzer's going to run down his hooker stories (which is what everyone actually wants to hear) in Slate? He's saving that for the book. They should have gone after Ashley Dupre as a columnist instead. "THE SEX POLICY." It's a win-win. [NYO]
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Eliot Spitzer To Write Non-Sexual Column [Jobs]
Posted: December 3rd, 2008, 4:53pm CST by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: jobs
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Now That You've Been Laid-Off, What Will Your New Job Be? [Hard Time Jobs]
Posted: November 20th, 2008, 10:45am CST by Richard
Tags: Hard time jobs
Everyone's getting laid-off these days, what with the economy and all, and now we want to know what you'll be doing for money while the dust settles. There aren't any media jobs left and desperate times call for desperate measures. Depressing stories have already been trickling in, like the two longtime Jersey Star-Ledger newsroom employees who, after refusing a buyout, were banished to the mailroom! Or the Longmont, CO, Times Call staff who were invited to be valet parking attendants for their (probably soon-to-be ex) boss's fancy Christmas party. And, perhaps worst, a Hachette memo to staff inviting them to participate in the saddest thing of all, a holiday crafts fair. You know, so they can practice a trade before they inevitably get canned! "You will have the opportunity to show or sell your craft such as jewelry, accessories, chocolates, knitting and crocheting," it says. Sigh. Send us your post-axing, new job tales (depressing or not!) and we'll publish some of our favorites in the coming dark days. In the meantime, read the full dismaying Hachette memo after the jump. Are you one of the many talented HFM craftspeople waiting for a chance to showcase your artistry? Be discovered!
At the HFM Holiday Craft Fair, you will have the opportunity to show or sell your craft such as jewelry, accessories, chocolates, knitting and crocheting.
The Craft Fair will be held in the 42nd floor training room on Wednesday, December 10th from 11:30am – 2pm.
This is a wonderful opportunity to both show and sell your crafts and meet your colleagues! To participate, please RSVP to —-—-—- by Monday, December 1st and indicate the craft you would like to sell. (The Holiday Craft Fair is only open to HFM employees. Space is limited and is on a first come, first served basis.)
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What If Sarah Lacy Had Run Valleywag? [Jobs]
Posted: November 13th, 2008, 11:40pm CST by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
Sarah Lacy, the Silicon Valley author, BusinessWeek reporter and notorious interviewer, worked a bit of grave-dancing into her blog "tribute" to Valleywag, the site gutted by Gawker Media Wednesday. Gawker Media chief Nick Denton was the "best" Valleywag editor, and his posts were "sexy, fun... and important." The site's current editor, Owen Thomas, has had far more time to dutifully torture Valley fixture Lacy and, what do you know, she writes that Valleywag "just stopped being a daily, must-read for" her under his tenure. Perhaps Lacy imagines she could have run the site better, had she taken Denton up on his offer to take the reins a couple of years ago, before Thomas came on the scene.Denton was impressed with Lacy at the time: She had a big cover story, a book deal, access to hotshot young founders and, oh yes, was "the hottest reporter in the tech world — ever." She passed on the opportunity and now writes for the likes of Yahoo and BusinessWeek.com.
But Lacy can stroke her ego by imagining how well things might have gone — and sending a "shout out" to the scandal-mongering publisher who, in a rare turn, briefly stroked that same ego himself. Fantasyland is the place where bubbles never explode!
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Obama Vetters Seek Your Darkest Online Secrets [Jobs]
Posted: November 13th, 2008, 7:24am CST by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
Interested in serving in the president-elect's cabinet, or some other high-ranking capacity? Obama has 63 questions he'd like you to answer, quite possibly the most extensive vetting process in White House history. In addition to listing everything embarrassing or controversial that's ever happened to you, which must be pretty standard from administration to administration, or whether anyone in your family owns a gun, there are all sorts of exciting internet-related inquiries. Has anything been written about you, online, ever? You basically have to send all your Google results. Obama's team will also need anything you've ever written online, including fake names (see excerpt above). More exciting demands after the jump!Ever written anything embarrassing in your diary, or controversial in an instant message? Right, of course you have, that's the point of diaries and IM messages, isn't it? So go ahead and send that in, too!
Also, everything on a Google search for you:
The Obama transition team is basically asking for a paper copy of the entire internet. Not because it expects to actually get one, but because the first test for a federal official is whether he can come up with a sane, narrow response to a seemingly absurd request, and to steer clear of controversy while being asked controversial questions. Congress and the government bureaucracy will eat him alive, otherwise.
Good luck on your first snowjobs, Obama people!
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Esquire Of Stripper Mags Is Hiring! [Jobs]
Posted: November 11th, 2008, 9:37pm CST by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
Chin up, unemployed journalists! Though media companies seem to accelerate their layoffs every day — Time Inc. Europe, People and CondeNet were on deck Tuesday — the optimist looks for opportunity in the panicked horror. One might, for example, sell one's soul to the horrid zombie Web corpse of a long-dead print magazine. Or beg, probably in vain, for a job at Starbucks. And if none of that works, you can always write, for free, for PumpsMag.com, an "Exotic Dancing Industry" publication where editors "equate ourselves with Forbes, Esquire, and/or Cosmopolitan magazines in our demographic and content." You know it's a classy gig because it says so right in the ad! Details after the jump.
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It's A Great Time To Be A Pirate [Jobs]
Posted: October 31st, 2008, 1:15pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: jobs
We challenge you to come up with a more badass job to have than Somali Pirate. You cannot come up with one! Except for the fact of living in a war-torn penniless country and taking your life in your hands on the high seas with no guarantee of success or mercy, it is just about the awesomest line of work ever. A million dollars in a single day? Piracy is the I-banking of a new generation!In Somalia, it seems, crime does pay. Actually, it is one of the few industries that does.
“All you need is three guys and a little boat, and the next day you’re millionaires,” said Abdullahi Omar Qawden, a former captain in Somalia’s long-defunct navy.
Pirates are now at the top of the town's social class, the only ones with money for Western-made cigarettes and fancy cellphones. Known by nicknames such as "Superman" or "Flying Squad," they spend their free time drunk or high on khat.
Easy women!
Flush with cash, the pirates drive the biggest cars, run many of the town’s businesses — like hotels — and throw the best parties, residents say. Fatuma Abdul Kadir said she went to a pirate wedding in July that lasted two days, with nonstop dancing and goat meat, and a band flown in from neighboring Djibouti.
“It was wonderful,” said Ms. Fatuma, 21. “I’m now dating a pirate.”
And reporting on the pirates is just as fun. Let's play, who has a bigger dick? The LAT:
Reporting from Haradhere, Somalia, and Nairobi, Kenya — Straddling a wooden crate filled with $1 million in cash ransom, a cranky old pirate bellows names from a notebook as his anxious, bleary-eyed minions lean against the stone walls of their cramped hide-out.
Or the NYT:
BOOSAASO, Somalia — This may be one of the most dangerous towns in Somalia, a place where you can get kidnapped faster than you can wipe the sweat off your brow...
Reporting in Boosaaso two weeks ago required no fewer than 10 hired gunmen provided by the Puntland government to discourage any would-be kidnappers.
Either way, these pirates have a great PR guy. How long before the first laid-off young Lehman Bros. bankers start turning up in Somalia? We'll give it three months. [Pic via]
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Liz Smith On The Post [Jobs]
Posted: October 29th, 2008, 6:05am CDT by Ryan Tate
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Bill O'Reilly Reups [Jobs]
Posted: October 22nd, 2008, 6:38am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
"Fox is expected to formally announce the four-year deal today, and the decision by O'Reilly — who will be paid more than $10 million a year — was not unexpected... The O'Reilly Factor has been the top-rated program in cable news for nearly eight years." [Washington Post]
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Graydon Carter Sticks It To Portfolio Again [Jobs]
Posted: October 8th, 2008, 8:19am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
It was something of a coup when Vanity Fair, in May, did what its Condé Nast sibling Portfolio couldn't and poached Fortune's winsome star writer Bethany McLean. If Portfolio's uncertain editor Joanne Lipman was annoyed then, she must be really steaming now that rival Graydon Carter snagged his latest catch from her own magazine. Vanity Fair's editor just inked an exclusive deal, the Observer reports, with Michael Lewis, who had contracts at both Lipman's glossy and with the Times magazine. Carter lured Lewis even though the Liar's Poker author recently saw his pay upped at Portfolio and despite a grudge the financial writer harbored against Vanity Fair for 10 years over an an unflattering 1997 profile. How did Carter do it?It's hard to say. But it's worth noting, as the Observer does, that one month before jumping on board with Carter, Lewis and his wife, onetime MTV News reporter Tabitha Soren, were treated to their first dinner at the bon vivant's West Vllage restaurant Waverly Inn. That sort of thing shouldn't matter to a writer who reportedly nets $30,000 for each of his Times pieces. But then one shouldn't be able to get away with charging $55 for a plate of macaroni and cheese, however adorned, and people still jam the secret phone lines for a Waverly reservation.
It is not only Wall Street that is susceptible to the whims of fashion, or to panicked flights from troubled institutions.
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Searching For New Gawker Video Interns [Jobs]
Posted: October 6th, 2008, 12:02pm CDT by Richard
Tags: jobs
Hello layabout, TV-watching young people! Gawker is looking for a television-obsessed intern to sit around and watch TV to find newsworthy clips for social commentary. The job requires a good eye and the ability to sit. The schedule is flexible but requires a minimum of 15 hours a week over the course of 3 months. College internship credit available to those who qualify. Pay is less than minimal. Email Richard Blakeley at tvinternship@gawker.com with proof of addiction to television; no attachments please. Must be able to work from our NYC based office.
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Robert Thomson Reshuffles WSJ Editors [Jobs]
Posted: October 2nd, 2008, 1:35am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
Less than four months after he "broadened" the Wall Street Journal's Page One desk, promoting P1 editor Mike Williams to deputy managing editor and giving him oversight over investigative re porting, Journal editor Robert Thomson is again reorganizing the storied team. Williams, a pre-Thomson veteran once rumored to be in the Rupert Murdoch lieutenant's crosshairs, stays in place. But his deputy Mike Allen is moved to a new job where he will "nurture investigations" in foreign bureaus, under the title Page One Projects Editor. Allen was recently billeted to the international desk for a stint assisting another Deputy M.E., Nik Deogun, so the change isn't entirely out of left field. Moving up: Alex Martin, a Newsday veteran at the Journal just three years. Thomson's full memo on the changes is after the jump.
With a background in features and investigations, Martin doesn't sound like he's part of an agenda to make the Journal's front more newsy and less analytic. But then one never knows!
Insights on the reshuffling? ryan@gawker.com
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Palin Doesn't Help Couric Ratings [Jobs]
Posted: October 1st, 2008, 7:11am CDT by Ryan Tate
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"The CBS Evening News gained only about 10 percent in audience from the previous week — and it was actually down from the same week the year before." [Times]
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Pat O'Brien Fired For Passive-Aggressive Email [Jobs]
Posted: September 19th, 2008, 5:25am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
Behold the power of an ill-conceived email message. For it wasn't horny, drunken voice mail or repeated bouts of excess drinking that got Pat O'Brien fired from celebrity news show the Insider. It was that pompous, undermining email where he called himself a "favorite son" of bitter poor Iowans who "want to vomit" over segments by his replacement in the anchor chair, Lara Spencer. "I'm actually not the one afraid for my job," he wrote, ominously. Bosses were "infuriated," the Post reports this morning, and O'Brien is now out.
Speculation will inevitably turn to whether O'Brien was drunk when he wrote the email, but a coworker already told the Post it sprang from his "insecurity and jealousy." Which are the sort of emotional problems that tend to come vividly to the fore when one is no longer blunting them with drugs or alcohol.
[Post]
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The Employment Shuffle [Jobs]
Posted: September 18th, 2008, 1:51pm CDT by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: jobs
John Carney, editor of the readable financial news and gossip site Dealbreaker (founded by original Gawker Elizabeth Spiers), is leaving to edit a new, similar site from Silicon Alley Insider called "ClusterStock." Caroline Waxler, formerly at MainStreet.com, will be heading up fellow SAI blog the Business Sheet. SAI itself is losing its managing editor Peter Kafka, who will be starting a new media and advertising blog for AllThingsD. And wrestling champ Alex "Blue States Lose" Blagg is leaving his blogging gig at BestWeekEver. See, jobs exist!
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Amazingly, Annoying Kathy Griffin Wins Another Emmy [Dirty Jobs Was Robbed]
Posted: September 14th, 2008, 10:39am CDT by Jasper Reardon
Tags: Dirty jobs was Robbed
Last Night in Los Angeles, the unthinkable occurred..."No way!" she gasped in her seat when she heard her name called as winner. Upon arriving at the podium, she gasped, "Well, well, well! Here we go again, f—ers. Here we go again!" Looking around the auditorium, she acknowledged some celebs in the audience, adding, "Hanks, Gandolfini — what the f—! I'm not going to tell anyone to suck it. I would make love to this thing if I could."
I understand she won in the "Reality Program" category, which is not exactly the Royal Shakespeare Company, but I think this woman is possibly the most grating person on television. Am I missing something?
[LAT]
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Gawker Managing Editor [Jobs]
Posted: September 11th, 2008, 12:14pm CDT by Nick Denton
Tags: jobs
The deadline for applications is this Friday. The job spec is here. (Please read it before you respond.) Email me if you're interested.
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CNN Slams New MSNBC Anchor [Jobs]
Posted: September 2nd, 2008, 3:30am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
"CNN President Jon Klein [said he] declined to hire Maddow because he found her 'predictable.'" [Washington Post]
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Olbermann Favorite Ascends At MSNBC [Jobs]
Posted: August 19th, 2008, 7:08pm CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
After frequent guest and guest-host appearances on Keith Olbermann's left-leaning Countdown, political commentator Rachel Maddow will get her own MSNBC show as everyone predicted, replacing Dan Abrams' Verdict 9 pm weeknights. The Times' Brian Stelter writes that "Ms. Maddow will almost certainly be a closer ideological fit with Mr. Olbermann’s," reinforcing our earlier point that, despite its protestations, MSNBC will inevitably become basically the Fox News of the left as it moves to hold on to the young viewers Olbermann has attracted. Judging by the comments attached to Stelter's blog post, this should be a popular decision. Maddow, at least, is un-Fox-like in one way: She hasn't been afraid to smack down her MSNBC colleagues. After the jump, no fewer than three videos of Maddow doing so, with Joe Scarborough, Chris Matthews and Pat Buchanan. [Times]
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Is Dan Rather Joining Tina Brown's New Venture? [Jobs]
Posted: August 18th, 2008, 5:54am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
Dan Rather's contract with Mark Cuban's TV network HDNet should not be up until nearly a year from now, assuming the terms Rather disclosed just before he inked the deal still hold. But would the contract prevent the former CBS Evening News anchor from contributing in some way to Tina Brown's forthcoming news website The Beast? Perhaps that's what Brown and Rather were discussing during a "very long lunch" at The Park on Tenth Avenue, as reported by a Post spy. Though Rather's work at HDNet has garnered some positive recognition, it's not nearly as visible as his work for CBS was. A Web gig or partnership would give Rather a shot at regaining more of the attention he once had — and that any veteran TV newsman would crave. Perhaps the skilled lawyers working for Brown's business partner Barry Diller can work something out on the proud old newshound's behalf. [Post]
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Whitaker Takes Over For Russert As DC Bureau Chief [Jobs]
Posted: July 28th, 2008, 7:25pm CDT by Ryan Tate
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Katie Couric Won't Go Cheaply [Jobs]
Posted: July 28th, 2008, 12:09am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
"If [CBS head] Les Moonves wants to get rid of her, he's got to shell out around $40 million. He's tried to get her to move on, and she was like, 'Fine. I'll leave - where's my money?'" [Post]
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Pushy White House Reporter's Sad Future [Jobs]
Posted: July 22nd, 2008, 11:54pm CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
Following the death of NBC's Tim Russert, White House correspondent David Gregory was considered to be on the shortlist to succeed him on Meet The Press. Gregory is known for aggressively questioning White House officials and at one point so upset Bush press secretary Tony Snow that Snow accused him of partisanship, a remark for which Snow later apologized. While such assertiveness no doubt provided some cathartic release to critics of the administration, particularly those outraged at the feeble White House press corps, it may not be enough to get Gregory that Meet The Press gig or any other anchor job. In fact, the Observer today paints a rather grim picture of Gregory's immediate future, asking if he's a "lame duck" at the network, destined end up like — gasp — fellow White House troublemaker Sam Donaldson: Halfway through his stint at the 6 p.m. hour on MSNBC, Mr. Gregory’s numbers are solid but not remarkable. For the second quarter of 2008 (from late March to late June), Race for the White House averaged roughly 526,000 total viewers and 161,000 in the 25-54 demographic—roughly twice the audience that Tucker Carlson averaged during the second quarter of 2007.
Twice Tucker is a form of damnation by faint praise.
...over the past several months, the show has rarely made news.The Observer said it doesn't help that Gregory's show relies on the network's own political contributors as talking heads instead of on actual newsmakers.
This results in a pogram so unmemorable that even NBC's Tom Brokaw screwed up its name, calling it Road To The White House, when ending an episode of Meet The Press. Brokaw also indicated the other NBCer on Meet The Press that morning, political director Chuck Todd, would be making frequent appearances "in the weeks to come" — a sign that Todd, also rumored to be in the running for Russert's job, was well ahead of Gregory.
Another of Gregory's competitors for Meet The Press, former far-right congressman Joe Scarborough, has received laudatory coverage in the Times and New York magazine lately for his MSNBC show Morning Joe, a far cry from the way the Observer is treating Gregory.
This all goes to show that sometimes being a hard-working, aggressive reporter is not always enough to advance in TV news. But don't count Gregory out yet — if this 2006 Tonight Show clip of Gregory imitating George W. Bush is any indication, the correspondent has a wide range of untapped skills.
[Observer]
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Jezebel Moe Jumps To Radar [Jobs]
Posted: July 21st, 2008, 11:53pm CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
After fourteen months as a founding editor of Gawker Media's Jezebel, Moe Tkacik is jumping to Radar as a senior writer for RadarOnline.com. She joins, on the online side, Gawker alumni Alex Balk, Neel Shah and Choire Sicha (sorta — Sicha freelances). Ana Marie Cox, founding editor of Gawker Media's Wonkette, is a contributing editor at the print magazine. Jezebel's Jessica Grose went the other way, from Radar to Jezebel, in October. If Tkacik is anything like Balk, you'll want to keep up with her not only online on Radar but also on her new Tumblr (one of them, anyway). [Radar] (Photo via Moe's Myspace)
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AP's Celebrity Bumbler Now Covering Ethnicity [Jobs]
Posted: July 18th, 2008, 7:06am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
You might remember Jesse Washington: He's the Associated Press editor who last year issued an ill-conceived ban on Paris Hilton news that, after much to-do, was lifted in less than two weeks. Within a year, the AP went entirely in the other direction, telling staffers "everything involving [celebrity] Britney [Spears] is a big deal," a reversal Washington awkwardly, and overenthusiastically, joined, again making waves with the announcement that the wire had already written Spears' obituary amid the singer's psychiatric breakdowns. He also rather rashly said in a video interview that "if you want to know that it really happened [in celebrity news], then you're going to have to go to AP... If we put it out, you can bet the house on it that it really happened." That hyperbolic claim was undermined a few months later, when a source claimed "the AP misquoted me" as saying actor Paul Newman had cancer. Having displayed such a nuanced touch, what might Washington's future be at the wire service? Why, covering the sensitive topic of race and ethnicity! In fact, Washington beat out 448 other applicants for the position of national writer on such matters, according to an AP staff memo from U.S. News Managing Editor Mike Oreskes: Colleagues,
Few subjects permeate every corner of American life more fully than issues of race and ethnicity. So, few assignments have more potential to expand our understanding of America than writing about race and ethnicity.
That is why we have conducted an extensive search for a new national writer to cover this important and complex territory.
That search, ably led by John Affleck, brought in 449 applicants. There were many strong candidates.
It turned out the top choice—and a very exciting one—was right here at home. I am very pleased to announce that our new national writer on race and ethnicity will be Jesse Washington, currently the AP's Entertainment Editor.
Jesse Washington is a journalist of insight, passion and considerably varied experience. Reporter, magazine editor (twice), publisher, novelist, shooting guard. A native New Yorker, Jesse graduated from Yale in 1992 and joined the AP in Detroit. He came to the National Desk in New York the next year. He also served as assistant New York bureau chief.
He left in 1997 to become managing editor of Vibe magazine, and later served as founding editor of the Vibe spin-off Blaze, a magazine focusing on hip-hop culture. That experience suffuses Jesse's first novel, "Black Will Shoot," published earlier this year. He also started a company that published two coffee table books about African-American artists, Romare Bearden and Elizabeth Catlett, and founded the street basketball magazine, Bounce.
He returned to the AP in 2003 to become entertainment editor, supervising our expanding team of journalists covering film, music, television, theater books, pop culture, celebrities and even video games.
''Jesse has been essential in building AP's entertainment coverage,'' said Lou Ferrara.
Jesse brings to this new assignment more than just a resume of achievements. He has lived the subject of race and ethnicity every day of his 39 years.
Son of an interracial marriage, Jesse is, as he puts it, "a kid from the projects who went to Yale and married a doctor. I'm a person who fits in everywhere and nowhere." He and his wife live in suburban Philadelphia with their four children.
Since the subject can't wait, he begins a week from Monday, traveling the country and, of course, looking at the role of race in this presidential election year.
A search for Jesse's replacement as entertainment editor is under way, Lou reports
Mike OreskesSometimes, as they say, the person you're searching for is right there under your nose. Banning stuff.
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Watch TV For Fun and (Very Little) Profit! [Jobs]
Posted: July 9th, 2008, 1:25pm CDT by Richard
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Hey young people! Gawker Media is looking for television-obsessed interns (our current fabulous crew will, sniff, soon be leaving us) to sit around and watch TV to find newsworthy clips for social commentary. The job requires a good eye and the ability to sit. The schedule is flexible but requires a minimum of 15 hours a week over the course of 3 months (August-October, in this case). College internship credit available to those who qualify. Pay is less than minimal. Email Richard Blakeley at tvinternship@gawker.com with proof of addiction to television; no attachments please.
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Sean Avery's Vogue Gig Resembles Nursing, Apparently [Jobs]
Posted: June 24th, 2008, 5:22am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
Hockey star Sean Avery is "guest editing" MensVogue.com this week, which means that, technically, he is the one who decided to print a picture of himself shirtless (above) for the slideshow accompanying his essay about life as a Vogue intern. The essay itself details Avery's love of fashion — especially women's fashion, which he finds "especially interesting — there are so many options, and they can tell more of a story." Go ahead and make the gay jokes, Avery has already heard them. And they don't stop him from bragging that he added a "leopard-print Alexander McQueen vest" to a photo shoot he worked, and that it "pulled the outfit together."Avery is also not apologizing for a fashion obsession that "started innocently enough with my first tie-dyed Chip & Pepper shirt at age 12 has evolved over a decade and a half into a closet full of Dries Van Noten, YSL, Dior, and Costume National, to name just a few." He also cops to wearing "dinner attire" of "jeans, limited edition Nikes, a Raf Simons dress shirt, and a bow tie."
But Avery is a little embarrassed about a recent accident in the Condé Nast cafeteria in which he attempted to load up two trays at once and ended up spilling beef stroganoff on some hapless but unknown coworker (she fled). (He's sorry! He wants to buy you a new outfit! Twelfth floor!)
Then there's this strange assertion:
Here's what it comes down to: I make millions of dollars a year at a "job" that I consider to be pure fun. The people at Vogue don't have that kind of salary. What they do have is a group of people working creatively and relentlessly because of their strong passion and love for fashion. I would challenge you to find another workplace — outside of sports or nursing — that has that.
Ah, yes, nursing: That place for people with "strong passion and love for fashion." Someone should put together a photo spread!
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Out [Jobs]
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 3:01pm CDT by Nick Denton
Tags: jobs
Mark Jarecke, creative director for Condé Nast web properties such as Style.com, has left Newhouse family's magazine group. Jarecke was a key aide to the web sites' editorial director, Jamie Pallot. Anyone have the backstory?
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This Is Maybe the Best Journalism Job Available [Jobs]
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 9:10am CDT by Pareene
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Fresh out of journalism school? Have experience writing, editing, and proofing business to business communications? Adept at Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, Adobe InCopy, Lexis-Nexis and other publishing applications? We just found you the best job ever on Craigslist! You can be a copy writer of marketing manuals for American University in Washington D.C. You'll be "responsible for writing, editing and proofreading a wide range of print and online materials including content for our web site, emails to students, and other marketing materials." Oh, and also—you will be a security guard. No joke! "The security guard spends most of the shift seated at the reception desk, and there will be very minimal security duties. Practically the entire shift you will be able to focus on writing copy – you’ll just happen to be wearing a uniform." Sadly, you don't get a gun. [Craiglist via FishbowlDC via DCeiver]
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Hearst Chief Fired Over Web Issues? [Jobs]
Posted: June 19th, 2008, 3:25am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
"The word had come from on high that they weren’t doing enough getting into digital, nothing big enough to fundamentally change the business model." [Times, Previously]
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Ex-Gossip To Iraq [Jobs]
Posted: June 18th, 2008, 6:00am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
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Forbes Exodus Includes Fake Steve Jobs [Jobs]
Posted: June 13th, 2008, 5:16am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
"Initially, the Forbes defections were confined mainly to the print magazine, but they are now spreading to the dot-com side as well." [Post]
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Pulitzers Can't Protect Washington Post Editor's Job [Journalismism]
Posted: May 19th, 2008, 12:58am CDT by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
Great job winning a record six Pulitzer Prizes last month for the Washington Post, Len Downie! But you're so fired. Or, as the Times has it in Monday's paper, "pressured" to soon leave the Post so the new publisher, Katharine Graham's granddaughter, can pick her very own editor. Nepotism beats journalism prizes, naturally. (Radar had something on this last week, but was apparently overconfident about the timing.) The publisher is trying to bring together the print and online halves of the Post, which have been warring, so it makes little sense that she's supposedly been trying to recruit as Downie's replacement old-media hands like New Yorker Editor David Remnick, former Managing Editor Steve Coll or former Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Marcus Brauchli. But Remnick and Coll have already turned the publisher down, so it's possible she'll go with WashingtonPost.com editor Liz Spayd, who the Times paints as her friend. Bottom line: the pernicious Pulitzer Prize is not correlated with journalism job security these days, except perhaps negatively (in case that wasn't sufficiently clear from the 2003 departure of Pulitzer machine John Carroll from the Los Angeles Times). [Times]
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Ur Benifitz. Show Tehm To Meh. [Jobs]
Posted: April 24th, 2008, 10:20am CDT by Richard
Tags: jobs
You all love LolCats, right? The internet meme turned cultural phenomenon turned sure-to-be-best-selling book has warmed all of our hearts and lifted our spirits. Wouldn't it be great to work for them? With that in mind, did you apply for the I Can Has Cheezburger dream job?? They're hiring! The website's founder Ben Huh has received 250 applications since he posted the job opening on Monday, 243 of which are mine (sorry Nick!).
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From A Pothead Doctor, Supposedly [Jobs]
Posted: March 6th, 2008, 7:05pm CST by Ryan Tate
Tags: jobs
"A lot of doctors smoke. I think it’s more common than people realize, particularly among young doctors. It doesn’t affect my ability to think, but I do find myself searching for words a lot more than I previously had to, and my memory is kind of hazy. I never forget patient information, though." [Time Out New York]
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Vegas Bouncers Make More Than The President [Nightlife]
Posted: February 22nd, 2008, 11:15am CST by Hamilton Nolan
Tags: jobs
Life is good when you work at a nightclub hot enough to host Paris Hilton's birthday party. Doormen at Pure, the biggest club in Las Vegas, are said to clearing up to half a million dollars per year [Las Vegas Review-Journal]. And that's before whatever extras they can sell, nahmean? Unfortunately for them, it's also before taxes; on Wednesday the club got raided by the IRS.Sources have been telling me that doormen at several clubs are clearing $8,000 to $10,000 a night before they share tips. So much cash is pouring in that some doormen are making $400,000 to $500,000 a year, several nightclub executives told me.
"Pure has guys at the door making more than the president," said one executive with intimate knowledge of the cover-charge system. He was referring to the annual salary of the president of the United States, which is $400,000, plus benefits.
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Gig [Jobs]
Posted: January 7th, 2008, 2:51pm CST
Tags: jobs
We need some photoshop work done quick, for a piece on Lou Dobbs. Email alexp@gawker.com (Could turn into a regular gig.)
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All The Jobs Are On The Internet [The New Model]
Posted: December 13th, 2007, 4:50pm CST
Tags: jobs
The New York Times is hiring, hiring, hiring! You can be a freelance writer even—that is, for "online content startup" LifeWire, which, when it launches, will provide "original and syndicated lifestyle content to Web publishers." You can be a "business producer," a confusing title for what actually sounds like an entertaining job—it's one of those newfangled jobs where you're a packager and a photo editor and a triage nurse and actually a journalist too. There's a travel and style editor job to oversee web producers; an open blog producer job at New York/Region; a homepage producer. That's a lot of hiring for a paper that's having its first layoffs in a while!
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Scores In Sex Suit Scandal [Dirty Jobs]
Posted: December 13th, 2007, 10:50am CST
Tags: Dirty jobs
Working at Scores: it's not all giving candy to school children, recovering lost dogs and exchanging glimpses of your breasts for charitable canned goods donations. Sometimes you are asked to exchange sex for money. The Daily News, always your best source for the strip club stories that matter to you, reports today on a lawsuit brought against the famed Manhattan institution by former cocktail waitress Francis Vargas, who charges that Scores managers are terribly sleazy and have some workplace boundary issues.Vargas, fired from Scores West last year, claims in her harassment suit that "a manager identified only as Sammy" suggested oral sex might be her fastest ticket to a $500 bonus, another manager "coerced Vargas into posing for sexy shots on HowardStern.com," and "strip club brass" instructed her to "'take out her boobs more' to rack up better tips."
While that last bit of wisdom is known by waitresses both cocktail and non the world over, we have found that it is still not really appropriate as an instruction from management. Similarly, we wish we would stop being instructed to "get up on the roof with Nikola."
Ex-Scores Waitress Files Harass Suit [NYDN]
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'Entertainment Weekly' And The Cushy Staff Retreat [Rumors]
Posted: December 10th, 2007, 12:45pm CST
Tags: cushy magazine jobs
We hear that Entertainment Weekly flew their entire Los Angeles staff into New York for the Time Inc. holiday party, in advance of a magazine-wide staff retreat. Staff retreats? What is this, 1995? Who can afford those anymore, other than white-shoe law firms and ClearChannel? Apparently EW ca
