Editor Tries to Defend Stupid Comments About Single Moms, Fails
Last week, one Chris Powell, managing editor of the Journal Inquirer out of Hartford, Connecticut used his plaform
Journalism Is Failing Because of Single Moms on Welfare
It's not the internet or the those stupid young people who won't pay for things or the cost of paper that's thrown the media landscape into a tizzy: it's women. That's according to Chris Powell, the managing editor of the Journal Inquirer out of Manchester, Connecticut, who has penned an op-ed about the real people…
It's Dude-itors All the Way Down
In the middle of the Venn diagram between the glass ceiling, the vanilla ceiling, and chilled out dude-itors
Anna Wintour Just Got A New Job
Anna Wintour just got a new job. The longtime editor is not leaving Vogue, but she is taking on the additional responsibilities (and salary) of a position created just for her: creative director of Condé Nast, which publishes titles from Vogue to Architectural Digest. Wintour says she wants to help those magazines…
Columnist Figures Out the Worst Possible Way to Introduce an Article…
All you aspiring reporters out there looking for your first big scoops, take careful note: your lede is very important. How important? By this point, three-quarters of the people who were reading this post just tuned out and pulled up Buzzfeed so they could scroll through "The 46 Things Your Cat Doesn't Want You to Know …
Why Are Fashion Designers So Ridiculously Touchy About Press?
Yves Saint Laurent's treatment of the press under new creative director Hedi Slimane has been perhaps the most talked-about event of this fashion season. It's a perfect case study in how not to do public relations — but it's also an illustration of the broader problems that dog fashion, a field of endeavor that is…
The Five Articles You Read About Fashion Week
It's fashion week. And our vocabulary for talking about it is, it turns out, rather limited. Have you noticed the same stories popping up, season after season? Editors keep assigning them, and while the names may change, the narrative does not. Here's a field guide — and an argument for finding new ways to think about…
Why the Internet Freaked Out About the Lady Nerd on This Month's Wired…
This is the cover for the current issue of Wired magazine. The woman on the cover isn't just a model in the traditional sense: She's Limor Fried of Adafruit Industries, and very possibly the first woman engineer to grace the cover of Wired. And she looks good on it. So, some people freaked out.
