A new literary magazine, set to be run by former The New Republic editor Leon Wieseltier, has been shuttered just a week before its scheduled launch after Wieseltier apologized following accusations of sexual harassment. “For my offenses against some of my colleagues in the past I offer a shaken apology and ask for their forgiveness. The women with whom I worked are smart and good people. I am ashamed to know that I made any of them feel demeaned and disrespected,” Wieseltier said in a statement provided to several media outlets. “I assure them that I will not waste this.
- 10/25/2017
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hanks, Mahershala Ali, Tony Hale, Bill Hader, Christian Slater, Common, Randall Park, Rami Malek, Portia Doubleday, Thomas Mann, Anna Deavere Smith, Miranda Cosgrove, Melissa Rivers, Kevin Frazier and many more will participate in “Eif Presents: Xq Super School Live,” a special one-hour telecast which will invite the public to help rethink the future of American high schools.
They will join Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, who also serve as executive producers, in the all-star telecast, which will air live from Los Angeles on all four major U.S. networks – ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC – on Friday, Sept. 8 at 8:00-9:00 Pm Et live/Pt tape-delayed.
In September 2015, Xq: The Super School Project launched an open call to rethink and design the next American high schools. Since then, thousands of communities across the country have come together to reimagine high school education. “Eif Presents: Xq Super...
They will join Viola Davis and Julius Tennon, who also serve as executive producers, in the all-star telecast, which will air live from Los Angeles on all four major U.S. networks – ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC – on Friday, Sept. 8 at 8:00-9:00 Pm Et live/Pt tape-delayed.
In September 2015, Xq: The Super School Project launched an open call to rethink and design the next American high schools. Since then, thousands of communities across the country have come together to reimagine high school education. “Eif Presents: Xq Super...
- 8/28/2017
- Look to the Stars
In its first issue since 50 plus staffers resigned in protest in December, The New Republic takes on itself and a “perceived legacy of racism” at the magazine.
In a 4,000 word cover story written by Canadian journalist Jeet Heer, the magazine addresses years of criticism of its stance on race.
In the piece, obtained by Politico, Heer notes the gap between Tnr’s liberalism and hostility African American readers feel.
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“How do we reconcile the magazine’s liberalism, the ideology that animated the Civil Rights revolution,...
In a 4,000 word cover story written by Canadian journalist Jeet Heer, the magazine addresses years of criticism of its stance on race.
In the piece, obtained by Politico, Heer notes the gap between Tnr’s liberalism and hostility African American readers feel.
Also Read: Inside New Republic’s Demolition: Former Editors Blast Owner Chris Hughes as ‘Harvard Housing Lottery’ Winner
“How do we reconcile the magazine’s liberalism, the ideology that animated the Civil Rights revolution,...
- 1/29/2015
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
The New Republic’s new editor Gabriel Snyder announced four new hires on Wednesday, marking the political magazine’s first move to replenish its ranks since over a dozen staffers quit in December, which forced a suspension in publication.
“This is the first wave of new hires we’ll be making, including in the DC office, so I’ll have more exciting updates soon on the staffing front in addition to continuing to add to our roster of contributors,” said Snyder in his editor’s letter, which was obtained by TheWrap.
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“This is the first wave of new hires we’ll be making, including in the DC office, so I’ll have more exciting updates soon on the staffing front in addition to continuing to add to our roster of contributors,” said Snyder in his editor’s letter, which was obtained by TheWrap.
See Photos: The Scene at TheGrill 2014: TheWrap’s...
- 1/7/2015
- by Travis Reilly
- The Wrap
Where there are winners there are also losers, and as TheWrap already declared our our top 5 media winners of 2014 so must follow the year’s most prominent losers.
Fortunately, in the media world, it’s not a challenge to see who is in a funk and who is in full-on demolition mode.
Also Read: Top 5 Media Winners of the Year: TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2014
Here are the top 5 media losers of 2014.
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1. When journalists and billionares collide: Pierre Omidyar
For a guy who had the vision, determination and talent to create eBay, Pierre Omidyar sure seems to have trouble running a media company.
Fortunately, in the media world, it’s not a challenge to see who is in a funk and who is in full-on demolition mode.
Also Read: Top 5 Media Winners of the Year: TheWrap’s Best & Worst 2014
Here are the top 5 media losers of 2014.
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1. When journalists and billionares collide: Pierre Omidyar
For a guy who had the vision, determination and talent to create eBay, Pierre Omidyar sure seems to have trouble running a media company.
- 12/30/2014
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
Four more editors resigned from The New Republic Tuesday, weeks after approximately 50 of their colleagues did the same, an insider familiar with the situation told TheWrap.
Managing editor Linda Kinstler, deputy editor Amanda Silverman, assistant literary editor Becca Rothfeld, and reporter Yishai Schwartz resigned, reportedly over disagreements over the new direction of the magazine under owner Chris Hughes, CEO Guy Vidra, and new editor-in-chief Gabriel Snyder.
“As a matter of policy, we do not comment on internal personnel issues,” a spokesperson for The New Republic told TheWrap.
Also Read: Upheaval at The New Republic as Dozens Follow Leon Wieseltier and...
Managing editor Linda Kinstler, deputy editor Amanda Silverman, assistant literary editor Becca Rothfeld, and reporter Yishai Schwartz resigned, reportedly over disagreements over the new direction of the magazine under owner Chris Hughes, CEO Guy Vidra, and new editor-in-chief Gabriel Snyder.
“As a matter of policy, we do not comment on internal personnel issues,” a spokesperson for The New Republic told TheWrap.
Also Read: Upheaval at The New Republic as Dozens Follow Leon Wieseltier and...
- 12/30/2014
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
New Republic Editor-in-Chief Gabriel Snyder was officially brought on as the magazine’s chief weeks ago, but he’s been a little busy dealing with the aftermath of close to 50 reporters and editors resigning.
Also Read: Inside New Republic’s Demolition: Former Editors Blast Owner Chris Hughes as ‘Harvard Housing Lottery’ Winner
On Monday, he finally got around to writing his first editor’s note to readers, one that didn’t directly address the mass exodus of the magazine’s staff, but did preview he and Nr CEO Guy Vidra’s vision for the magazine’s future.
Snyder — a former...
Also Read: Inside New Republic’s Demolition: Former Editors Blast Owner Chris Hughes as ‘Harvard Housing Lottery’ Winner
On Monday, he finally got around to writing his first editor’s note to readers, one that didn’t directly address the mass exodus of the magazine’s staff, but did preview he and Nr CEO Guy Vidra’s vision for the magazine’s future.
Snyder — a former...
- 12/22/2014
- by Jordan Chariton
- The Wrap
The former governor thinks he can get away with comparing higher taxes to the Holocaust because of his "unequalled friendship" with Israel. But is he really an ally of the Jewish community?
After all he's done for Israel, Mike Huckabee does not appreciate being criticized for comparing American debt to the Holocaust. Thus on Tuesday, when the Anti-Defamation League's Abraham Foxman chastised him for doing just that, he responded with anger and a hint of menace, saying, "Israel and Jewish people need to make friends, not insult the ones they have." Such words are unlikely to convince many Jews that Huckabee is their ally. The statement should serve as a reminder that the aggressive Zionism of the Christian right does not translate into sensitivity toward broader Jewish concerns.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Palestinians React to Benjamin Netanyahu's Washington Speech
The contretemps started Saturday, when both Huckabee...
After all he's done for Israel, Mike Huckabee does not appreciate being criticized for comparing American debt to the Holocaust. Thus on Tuesday, when the Anti-Defamation League's Abraham Foxman chastised him for doing just that, he responded with anger and a hint of menace, saying, "Israel and Jewish people need to make friends, not insult the ones they have." Such words are unlikely to convince many Jews that Huckabee is their ally. The statement should serve as a reminder that the aggressive Zionism of the Christian right does not translate into sensitivity toward broader Jewish concerns.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Palestinians React to Benjamin Netanyahu's Washington Speech
The contretemps started Saturday, when both Huckabee...
- 5/4/2011
- by Michelle Goldberg
- The Daily Beast
“Consider the death of Walter Cronkite. He was an institution of American life, no question about it. His stability was a boon in an era of instability. He represented a belief in objectivity that our culture abandoned a long time ago. The media exequies for Cronkite we9re no surprise, of course: there is no undertaker like television, and he was its own. But how much of a nation’s sadness, I wonder, was a generation’s sadness--a commemoration by other means of the circumstances of its youth? Cronkite was one of those circumstances. Mourning for him was like mourning for vinyl, or pay phones or the Readers‘ Guide to Periodical Literature. It was another reminder of how much that was ours, and was good, has fled. (“Mad Men” owes some of its success to the warmth of its pastness, to the feeling of respite from change, of fastidious restoration,...
- 10/12/2009
- Vanity Fair
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