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Sightings (6)
Grigoriadis Dissects Gawker, Finds Shriveled Heart - Posted October 15, 2007
Vanessa Grigoriadis gets back at Gawker for making fun of her wedding write-up. Writing in New York, Grigoriadis writes:
Like most journalists, I tend to have a defeatist attitude about Gawker, dismissing it as the Mystery Science Theater 3000 of journalism, or accepting its vague put-downs under the principle that any press... [FishBowlLA]
Elizabeth Spiers' Take On Brazil Plane Crash Flamed - Posted July 23, 2007
Wondering what Elizabeth Spiers has been up to since abruptly leaving Deadhorse Media, her downtown blog network? Why, it appears mediabistro.com's former editor has been traveling with her boyfriend, pitching stories to Slate and responding to subsequent reader hatemail. Here's her lede:
The World's Worst Airline
A TAM plane crashed in Brazil Tuesday.... [FishBowlNY]
Jeff Bridges To Play Graydon Carter | Spiers & Red Bull | Zinczenko & Jellinek @ Hot 100 | Time's D.C. | Imus Wants Back On Air - Posted May 18, 2007
'The Dude': To play Graydon Carter in adaptation of Toby Young book. [WWD]
'Godmother' Elizabeth Spiers: Makes snarky peers "choke on their Red Bull." [Marketwatch]
Dave Zinczenko: Buries the Jimmy Jellinek hatchet. [Radar]
Imus: Wants back on air. [NYP]
Simpsons: 400th ep Sunday. [USA Today]
College Humor: The business. [BW]
... [FishBowlNY]
Did Lawsuit Have Anything To Do With Spiers' Exodus? - Posted April 19, 2007
That's what we wondered after we heard word late today of Elizabeth Spiers' abrupt exit from the blog network she founded last year. (Spiers wrote in an e-mail that she and her partners had "an insurmountable difference of opinion regarding long-term strategy" and that she wants "to do some projects... [FishBowlNY]
Dealbreaker: Spiers Out - Posted April 19, 2007
Gawker.com founding editor and former mediabistro editor Elizabeth Spiers is leaving Dead Horse Media, the blog network she launched last year.
Via Jon Fine's Fine On Media: "I want to do more sites, some of which are experimental (and not blog-related) and [Dead Horse's investors] want to just focus on improving... [FishBowlNY]
Media Events: 02.13.07 - Posted February 13, 2007
Parties, panels and other notable media gatherings
TUESDAY 02.13.07
WHAT: "The Ethics and Politics of Surveillance: New Information Practices & Our Private Lives"
WHO: Shohini Ghosh, Associate Professor, Video and Television Production at the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia, (Central University) New Delhi
WHEN: 6:30PM-8:30PM
WHERE: TamarindArt Gallery, 142 East 39th Street
WHY YOU... [FishBowlNY]
