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Thursday, October 14, 2004
Elizabeth Spiers' new gig looks to be pretty cool.
Two items worth noting:
- Spiers' post debunking this story. I'll just add to that with my personal experience, of writing a prominent back-page profile of Jessica Coen for the same publication just two months ago. The story was held up on NY1's "In the Papers," which apparently is a big deal at the dailies, or at least it was made into a big deal at the NYSun. One of the agendas for the piece that came from the top brass for the story was to specifically focus on how the stories in Gawker found themselves in New York's dailies the next day. This kind of trend-jumping, where blogs are alternately praised and insulted, speaks more to a kind of internal psychological battle at these papers than it does to the reality of the facts on the ground (or in the ether, as it were).
- Given Spiers' new place of employment, check out MediaBistro CEO Laurel Touby's JDate profile.
UPDATE: From reader Marc Weissblott, we can familiarize ourselves with Laurel's dad, Frank.
Steven I. Weiss 4:43:00 PM
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