Tom McGeveran

The day a Bar Rafaeli spread outclassed a story on charter schools:

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?

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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The day a Bar Rafaeli spread outclassed a story on charter schools

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

Posted on May 23rd, 2012 12:55pm

 
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Will Arthur Brisbane scold the 'Times' for its coverage of Arthur Brisbane?

The Times reports on the departure of an ombudsman who sought to change the way the Times attributes newsbreaks to other publications, in an article that fails to cite an earlier report of the news of his departure. More

Posted on May 22nd, 2012 1:35pm

 
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Gloria Allred assigns the tabloids another story about breasts

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

Posted on May 22nd, 2012 10:49am

 
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Sequels to sex scandals, with scare quotes and without

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

Posted on May 21st, 2012 1:50pm

 
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In a memo, Ricketts tells his news staff his politics have 'absolutely no impact' on their work

Ricketts tells his staff in the memo, obtained by Capital, that "although I feel a strong obligation as a citizen to engage politically in support of the principles I hold dear, I feel equally strongly that my personal politics should have absolutely no impact on your work as objective, fair-minded journalists." Whole thing after the jump. More

Posted on May 17th, 2012 6:29pm

 
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With an anti-Obama attack plan, DNAinfo owner Joe Ricketts comes out of his shell

One thing not mentioned in today's bombshell article in The New York Times about billionaire Joe Ricketts, the man behind a Super PAC campaign to revive the issue of pastor Jeremiah Wright in the 2012 election cycle? More

Posted on May 17th, 2012 10:48am

 
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Mary Kennedy is found dead, and the News says 'suicide'

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

Posted on May 17th, 2012 9:41am

 
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Red-top treatment for the Canadian woman who came before Dania Suarez

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

Posted on May 16th, 2012 10:17am

 
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The moment Pedro Espada stopped smiling

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

Posted on May 15th, 2012 12:27pm

 
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Jason Horowitz and 'The Washington Post' won, and the rest is political noise

There were lots of moments in Jason Horowitz's piece in The Washington Post yesterday morning about presidential candidate Mitt Romney's high-school days at the elite Cranbrook Schools in Michigan.

But as a confessed media nerd, this was the moment that made my heart stop: More

Posted on May 11th, 2012 3:07pm

 

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