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So What Do You Do, Roger Goodman?
The directing guru of ABC News—and the man behind all the pomp and pageantry of ABC's live specials—talks about his career and the ways in which he's remade television news.

So What Do You Do, Lloyd Grove?
New York's newest gossip on his career, his paper, and competing with "Page Six."

So What Do You Do, Josh Neuman?
The erstwhile philosopher now running Heeb magazine, the pub designed for snarky, hipster, young Jews, is trying to turn the thing into a viable business.

Q&A: Danny Wallace
The new book Join Me explains how a mild-mannered TV producer and freelance journalist accidentally became a cult leader.

So What Do You Do, Stephen Bromberg?
A former newspaper editor runs the Fox News Channel's fair and balanced website.

So What Do You Do, Josh Quittner?
The Business 2.0 editor on his career, his magazine, and life in San Francisco.

So What Do You Do, Geoff Lewis?
Folio:'s newest editor is pulling the magazine about magazines back to its core mission.

So What Do You Do, Cullen Murphy?
The Atlantic Monthly's editor on his job, his predecessor, and his side career in the funny pages.

Meet the (Meta)Press: Ken Auletta
The New Yorker's media writer comes out with a new book and talks to mb about the business, his articles, and learning to talk to the bosses.

So What Do You Do, Evan Smith?
The New York-born Texas Monthly editor on his career, his mag, and balancing the parochial with the national.

Q&A: Marion Ettlinger
The nation's leading photographer of authors releases her first collection, Author Photo and talks to mb about why she likes shooting writers.

So What Do You Do, Romesh Ratnesar?
A Time writer does his second tour in the mag's Baghdad bureau and talks to mb about his job there, his job in New York, and the intersection of the two.

Meet the (Meta)Press: Jon Fine
The Ad Age media reporter on the Rosie trial, the big stories, and whether the Manhattan media scene is problematically incestuous.

Meet the (Meta)Press: Cynthia Cotts
The Village Voice 'Press Clips' columnist on her paper, her column, and her alter ego.

So What Do You Do, Jim Kelly?
The top editor of Time magazine on running a newsmag and the burdens of the red border.

Q&A: Jim Clifton
The man behind the Gallup pollsters on his company, its history, and the importance of public-opinion polling.

Q&A: Jon Hein
The man who invented "jumping the shark" takes mb shark-hunting through the upcoming TV season—and through current events.

Q&A: Bob Kohn
The author of Journalistic Fraud on what's really gone wrong at The New York Times.

Meet the (Meta)Press: Matthew Rose
The Wall Street Journal's media reporter on how blogs change media coverage, whether he had the goods on Howell, and why he doesn't work for a financial publication.

Meet the (Meta)Press: Keith Kelly
The New York Post's scooperific media reporter talks to Jesse Oxfeld about his paper, his scoops, and how to coin a lasting nickname.

Meet the (Meta)Press: Howard Kurtz
Jesse Oxfeld talks to the prolific Washington Post media writer about his job, his critics, and what happens when Rick Bragg is suspended while you're off getting married.

Meet the (Meta)Press: Jack Shafer
Jesse Oxfeld talks to Slate's "Press Box" columnist about his job, the Times, and not moving with the pack.

Meet the (Meta)Press: David Shaw
The L.A. Times's Pultizer-winning media critic leaves his big series behind him and moves on to food and wine.

So What Do You Do, Keith Olbermann?
America's most peripatetic anchorman returns to MSNBC, this time—believe it or not—helming the cable network's marquee nightly newscast.

Meet the (Meta)Press: Michael Wolff
In the debut of a new mb feature examining people who cover the media, New York magazine's Michael Wolff talks about his column, his background, and how not to conduct an interview.

Q&A: Gideon Yago
MTV's bespectacled news correspondent on his trip to Kuwait, reporting on the American men and women serving there, and why they opened up to him.

Q&A with Sheryl WuDunn
The new New York Times cable channel debuts tonight, and Pulitzer-winning reporter Sheryl WuDunn will anchor its signature show, a nightly look at the next day's front page. She talked to mediabistro.com about the network, her show, and whether her colleagues are making fun of her.

Q&A with Alex Berenson
In his new book, The Number, New York Times financial reporter Alex Berenson explains why the stock market fell apart.

Q&A with Eric Alterman
Alterman talks with Jesse Oxfeld about his new book and the fiction of a liberal media.

Bad Reception
As the new TV season gets underway, with its usual batch of mostly unwatchable shows, we asked TV critics and reporters to recall the worst pilot they ever had to sit through.

mb Quick Take: Bryan Monroe on Jayson Blair
The vice president, print, of the National Association of Black Journalists—a Knight-Ridder news exec currently at Harvard on a Nieman Fellowship—on why the Blair scandal has nothing to do with race.

mb Quick Take: William McGowan on Jayson Blair
Two years ago, William McGowan argued in Coloring the News that American newsrooms were advocating diversity at the cost of their coverage. Has the Jayson Blair case proved his point?

Watching Ellie
Jesse Oxfeld goes to his first National Magazine Awards.

Art on the Radio
You'd think radio was a strictly aural medium. But WNYC, New York's public radio station, is proving otherwise, with a one-of-a-kind online exhibition of visual art created in response to the Iraq war.

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Curbed Switches Most West Coast Sites to Freelance Model - Posted December 15, 2008
So we noted earlier today that everyone's favorite new Twitter stream was reporting that the west coast offices of Curbed had suffered some layoffs. We caught up with founder Lockhart Steele who confirmed there had been changes:We're transitioning most of our West Coast sites to a freelance model instead of... [FishBowlNY]

What Surprised Michael Wolff Most About Rupert Murdoch May Also Surprise You! - Posted December 10, 2008
The party for Michael Wolff's much ballyhooed official Rupert Murdoch biography The Man Who Owns the News was held last night at the stunning penthouse of Milk Studios on the West Side and, not surprisingly, attracted a whole slew of media big wigs (every style of horn-rimmed glasses appeared to be... [FishBowlNY]

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