Afghanistan
Michael Hastings, reflecting on the height of his career
“I couldn’t just deliver, ‘Here’s what’s in the rest of my notebooks.’ I had to go back in and dive even deeper. So it forced me to try to top the reporting. I think we succeeded at that. And the fucking bar was high, right?” More
Scene: A tabloid newsroom, in the middle of the Petraeus scandal
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner?
(2)For Obama, it's 'KA-BULL!,' for Bush, it was 'TOP GUN'
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
Journalists and photographers discuss the lingering effects of war reporting, and coming home
This month marks nine years since the American invasion of Baghdad. While the United States military mission in Iraq officially ended in December, the impact of war will continue to reverberate for many years to come, both for those who fought it and with those who witnessed it. The latter group was the focus at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism on Wednesday night, where the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma hosted a panel of Iraq war journalists—many of whom came of age, both professionally and personally, during their time there. More
Innovation-fest SXSW generates ideas for stunty print-tabloid covers, too
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
The massacre in Kandahar, and a portrait of grief
Each day, the New York tabloids vie to sell readers at the newsstands on outrageous headlines, dramatic photography, and, occasionally, great reporting. Who is today's winner? More
(1)Quinn debuts on Maddow, wants parades for veterans
"What I want is to make sure this moment doesn't pass us by because if we wait too long it will pass us by and then the thank you will seem late and belated like the birthday card from your aunt who forgot," Quinn said. "It just doesn't mean as much." More
Michael Hastings, the 'Rolling Stone' guy who ruined McChrystal, tries to sell the public on a new book about Afghanistan
Hastings, who used to live on the Lower East Side, now resides in his native Vermont with his wife, the writer Elise Jordan. But he was in town that week, staying at a boutique hotel in Midtown, to do press. His publisher, Penguin's Blue Rider Press, is throwing a party for the book tonight at Sebastian Junger's watering hole, The Half King, on West 23rd Street. More
(8)In Crown Heights, the nerve center of a project to mentor and help protect Afghan women writers
On Jan. 21 and 22, those comedians—plus Rachel Dratch of Saturday Night Live fame—will lend their unlikely voices to the women who penned these poems, in a uniquely imagined fundraiser titled "Comedians of New York for Afghan Women Writers," benefitting the Afghan Women’s Writing Project, an organization dedicated to empowering Afghan women—through mentorship, support and continued encouragement—to write their stories, find their voices, and share both with the rest of the world. “Comedians understand pain best,” said Stephanie Tait, a filmmaker and comedian herself, who acts as the AWWP creative outreach director event’s curator, “because they go into comedy to escape their own.” More
(1)Peter King wishes all the Republican candidates would at least read the newspaper
Representative Peter King has almost settled on a presidential candidate.
"I think, first of all, Mitt Romney is clearly the most competent candidate we have," King told me in a phone interview this afternoon.
"I will probably end up endorsing Mitt Romney, I'm just not ready to do it now. If it comes down, which it looks like it will, to a campaign on the economy, I would say business experience and competency, Mitt Romney is clearly our strongest candidate. He's probably won all the debates. Certainly, he hasn't lost any of them, I'll put it that way. And he's serious. He's shown he's a serious player."
In King's view, that distinguished him from most of the rest of field.
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