Bio: Tom McGeveran is a co-founder and editor of Capital. He's previously served as Editor of The New York Observer and has also worked at The New York Blade.
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Albany reporters protest being blocked from a Republican hearing
Yesterday, State Senate Republicans held a hearing to consider testimony about the possibility of adopting New York City-style campaign-finance laws for state legislative elections. More
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on May 8th, 2013 1:27pmThis was Williamsburg
There was nothing around there back then. I mean really, nothing but working factories, mostly textile mills with giant mechanized looms churning out cheap sweaters, amazing late-industrial objects to watch, the noises of which became familiar to us quickly as one was still operating on the other end of our floor. More
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on May 3rd, 2013 2:27pm'New York Times' gets a new politics editor: Carolyn Ryan
Ryan's big claim to fame is the Times' blockbuster revelation that Eliot Spitzer was involved in an F.B.I. investigation into a prostitution ring, a report that ended Spitzer's career as Governor of New York. Back then, in 2008, she was the metro political editor.
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on May 1st, 2013 5:15pmTimes Co.'s Mark Thompson unveils new strategic plan amid declining income
Once upon a time these large strategic initiatives would hint at campaigns for acquiring name-brand companies and technologies to broaden the business; but in the 2013 media environment, the Times is sticking to its knitting.
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on April 25th, 2013 5:08amWhen straight-keeper in chief Jill Abramson gets the tabloid treatment
Has Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, "lost the newsroom"? More
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on April 24th, 2013 2:10pmSam Tanenhaus to leave 'New York Times' Book Review, become 'writer at large' for the paper
Replacing him will be Pamela Paul, previously features editor at the Review. More
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on April 9th, 2013 4:04pmJimmy Fallon gets Jay Leno's blessing, which is to say Lorne Michaels has NBC where he wants them
NBC is for some reason promoting the idea that Jimmy's the one behind moving it back here from Burbank, even while promoting the idea Fallon was trying to keep his head down and his mouth shut while the whole thing played out. More
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on April 3rd, 2013 12:02pmExtra! Print newspaper reports politicians' arrest before it happens
"Halloran’s dog could be heard barking throughout the episode," according to a report posted to the paper's website early this morning. More
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on April 2nd, 2013 8:20am'Daily News' Central Park Jogger story not a terrible April Fool's joke, but a technical mistake
At first it will seem, because the article is presented without any context, as though a woman was viciously beaten and raped and near death on Wednesday of last week in Central Park by "a wolf pack of more than a dozen young teenagers who attacked her at the end of an escalating crime spree."
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on April 1st, 2013 9:28amAnother devastating comment on Buzz Bissinger, by Buzz Bissinger
In Buzz Bissinger's 6,460-word confessional piece about his shopping addiction, published today on GQ.com, the word "leather" appears 46 times, the word "Gucci" 37 times, and the word "me" comes in third place at 32 appearances. The word "writing" only appears seven times. More
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on March 26th, 2013 11:23am
Replies to @tmcgev:
Lock: @tmcgev Loved that place too. Once watched a rat literally climb in and out of the toaster oven. Still went back.
maura: @tmcgev YES that one is imprinted on my brain
katiebakes: @tmcgev @koblin @bennettmadison i honestly had some trouble weighing whether i even wanted to send it to you
joshsternberg: RT @tmcgev: .@tomscocca on NYT Styles, weaving @buzzfeedben & "Bowie & Denim" stories, is, unsurprisingly, brilliant: http://t.co/KIiIzAHd9Y
bonjourkat: @tmcgev COLD FINGER=the line I'd have guessed. Kills me everytime. Now build a time machine, please, as I'd give my left boob to witness.- maura: @tmcgev ahahahaha you are welcome, and AMAZING.
jcstearns: @tmcgev This haunts the edges of your piece but isn't discussed explicitly.- jcstearns: @tmcgev Reporting on media is also critical because of media's democratic function. Too often media reporting focuses only on business side.
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