Capital New York

Oprah Winfrey and Arianna Huffington join forces

The deal marries two female power brands and creates an opportunity for one of them to try and build up its audience. Following Winfrey's succcessful career as a syndicated talk show host, her OWN venture has been struggling to attract viewers. Giving it a platform on HuffPost, which had about 37 million unique U.S. visitors in April, according to comScore, is one way to maybe add some eyeballs. More

Posted on May 23rd, 2012 11:06am

In reversal, 'Opera News' will continue to cover the Metropolitan Opera

"From their postings on the internet, it is abundantly clear that opera fans would miss reading reviews about the Met in Opera News. Ultimately, the Met is here to serve the opera-loving public and has changed its decision because of the passionate response of the fans." More

Posted on May 22nd, 2012 4:11pm

History's first draft in an archive of Mike Wallace's papers at Syracuse

Fans of the legendary former CBS newsman might consider making a pilgrimage to Syracuse University, whose Special Collections Research Library is filled with "the unadorned relics of Wallace’s interviews with some of the most important people of the time, from 1958 to 1961." More

Posted on May 22nd, 2012 12:07pm

Huffington Post live video strategy takes shape with new hires, a new name

Roy Sekoff, Huffington Post's founding editor and a top lieutenant of the site's matriarch, Arianna Huffington, ran the meetings in which he also announced some of talent recently recruited for the venture. He named former Al Jazeera English co-host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (whose hiring was previously reported by Ad Age) , but added to the ist Alicia Menendez, the daughter of New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez, who is a co-host of “Power Play” on SiriusXM Cristina Radio and a contributor to NBCLatino.com; and Marc Lamont Hill, a Columbia University professor and former Fox News analyst. More

Posted on May 21st, 2012 3:58pm

'TNR' brings back Franklin Foer as editor, plans to double staff

The move is surprising, as HuffPost's Michael Calerone notes, "considering that Just is viewed internally as instrumental in helping facilitate Hughes' purchase of the esteemed, yet money-losing, 98-year-old magazine of American liberalism."

And yet given Foer's stature both in Washington and New York media circles, it makes sense; Hughes' mandate, he has said, is to raise TNR's profile and, according to Media Decoder, which broke the news Sunday, "guide The New Republic out of the category Hughes' called 'little magazines' in Washington like The National Review and into a category that includes magazines he sees as more natural competitors, like The New Yorker, the Economist and New York Magazine." More

Posted on May 21st, 2012 9:54am

A special, it's-too-nice-out edition of The Lineup

If you want, you can watch this video of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett throwing newspapers around. But really you should just get yourself outside now. More

Posted on May 18th, 2012 3:31pm

What is Vice Media's Shane Smith really selling? It's hard to say, but everyone's buying

Is it the role of Smith's brand of television to incite anger? Or to move angry people to give their money to this brand instead of that? Or to pacify them? In delivering the Angry Youth to CNN, MTV, Bloomberg, Nike and Intel, what is Vice's place in its own generation? It's not quite clear that Smith himself is sure of, or perhaps quite ready to admit, the answer. And he probably doesn't need to. More

Posted on May 18th, 2012 12:43pm

Tina Brown on choosing the 'Gaylo'; Tom Cruise and the hackers

"I thought it was the simplest. It communicated the idea in a very smart but at the same time subtle way," she told a Huffington Post reporter who caught up with her outside the Loews Regency Hotel. "I thought this was a chic way of doing it honestly, and I thought it did very well." More

Posted on May 17th, 2012 1:13pm

'The New Republic' plans to establish a New York office

A spokeswoman told Capital the New York hub will have both editorial and business-side staffers. The main headquarters will remain in Washington, D.C. More

Posted on May 16th, 2012 5:07pm

City Council passes resolution calling on Village Voice Media to drop adult-services ads

"Village Voice Media needs to do all it can, immediately, to stop facilitating the crime of sex trafficking, which is why we’re calling on them to stop accepting adult advertisements on their Backpage.com website," said Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a statement. More

Posted on May 16th, 2012 11:59am