Jacob Weisberg

David Plotz's Book Party: Have You Read The Good Book Lately? - Posted April 2, 2009
Have you read the bible? This was perhaps the most frequent question bandied about at last night's book party for David Plotz's The Good Book held at the Tribeca home of Jacob Weisberg and Deborah Needleman. Plotz, you may recall, blogged his way through the Old Testament of the... [FishBowlNY]

David Plotz's Book Party: Have You Read The Good Book Lately? - Posted April 2, 2009
Have you read the bible? This was perhaps the most frequent question bandied about at last night's book party for David Plotz's The Good Book held at the Tribeca home of Jacob Weisberg and Deborah Needleman. Plotz, you may recall, blogged his way through the Old Testament of the... [FishBowlNY]

David Plotz's Book Party: Have You Read The Good Book Lately? - Posted April 2, 2009
Have you read the bible? This was perhaps the most frequent question bandied about at last night's book party for David Plotz's Good Book held at the Tribeca home of Jacob Weisberg and Deborah Needleman. Plotz, you may recall, blogged his way through the Old Testament of the bible... [FishBowlNY]

David Plotz's Book Party: Have You Read The Good Book Lately? - Posted April 2, 2009
Have you read the bible? This was perhaps the most frequent question bandied about at last night's book party for David Plotz's Good Book held at the Tribeca home of Jacob Weisberg and Deborah Needleman. Plotz, you may recall, blogged his way through the Old Testament of the bible... [FishBowlNY]

Weisberg Chimes In on "Foreign Policy" Purchase - Posted September 30, 2008
Earlier on FishbowlDC: "So That's What Susan Glasser Will Do Next..." Slate Group Editor-in-Chief Jacob Weisberg sent out an email to Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive staffers this morning, obtained by FishbowlDC, in which he elaborates on the purchase of Foreign Policy magazine. Weisberg admits that "This might seem an odd fit because of our... [FishBowlDC]

FBLA Goes to the Party: Weisberg Book Party - Posted February 21, 2008
Slate's Jacob Weisberg read from his new book The Bush Tragedy at a Domino-sponored shindig in Brentwood. 300 guests stormed Arianna Huffington's mansion house. (Or home, as the invitations read.) Adrian Grenier, sporting a beard that would have been a bushy tragedy on anyone else, Tracey Ullman, who does a wicked... [FishBowlLA]

Morning Reading List, 12.10.07 - Posted December 10, 2007
Good morning Washington. For those of you wondering why we're not including the Politico, Roll Call and The Hill in our "Pictures of Morning Papers" feature -- which we'd love to do -- it's because a.) Politico and Roll Call are usually a day behind in posting theres and b.) The Hill... [FishBowlDC]

FBLA Goes to the Party: Slate V - Posted September 6, 2007
Slate V, the video branch of the online mag, threw a party at the cavernous Avalon last night, complete with open bar, roving waiters, and a big buffet. Infiniti provided the decoration, in the form of a car. No raffle, and the back seat wasn't big enough for any Tommy... [FishBowlLA]

Ellies 2007: Handicapping The Races - Posted May 1, 2007
New York's Adam Moss [left] and the New Yorker's David Remnick [right] flank Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner at the 2006 National Magazine Awards Counting down the hours to tonight's National Magazine Awards in New York (FishbowlNY will be there, liveblogging). It's about time to reveal our bracket-busting picks for the 2007 Ellies... [FishBowlNY]

Christopher Hitchens: Va. Tech Shootings A 'Non-Story' - Posted April 30, 2007
Virginia Tech was a "non-story," no more important than news of a "traffic accident." Magazine editors should be ashamed of themselves for not publishing the Danish cartoons. Anna Nicole was a "fat slut." Religion "poisons everything." Oh, and women? They still aren't funny. Some words of wisdom offered by Vanity Fair contributing editor,... [FishBowlNY]

Partying With The King - Posted April 19, 2007
King and his wife flank the Trumps The short hallway between the "Pool Room" and bar acted as a sort of cosmic, generational media portal last night at the Four Seasons, where a pair of cocktail parties — one celebrating Larry King's 50 years in broadcasting (a.k.a the "old people room"), the... [FishBowlNY]

Slate Finally Puts End To Monkey(fishing) Business, Issues Yet Another Apology - Posted February 7, 2007
Remember the controversy over that fabricated Slate article on monkeyfishing? No? Probably because it grabbed attention for a few short weeks in June 2001 before fading into the haze of media scandals past. Well, Slate ran an article penned by James Forman about his excursion to an island in the Florida... [FishBowlNY]

Mag Editors On Truth Serum: 'I Have So F*cked Up' - Posted January 30, 2007
All hail the editors-in-chief (from left): CosmoGIRL!'s Susan Schulz, Redbook's Stacy Morrison, mediabistro.com founder and CEO Laurel Touby, Men's Journal's Tom Foster, Slate's Jacob Weisberg; Jane's Brandon Holley, and Departures's Richard Story Photo by David Vanderheyden Slate's Jacob Weisberg called Slate a "cult." Jane's Brandon Holley advised to "kill them with kindness." ... [FishBowlNY]