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Jim Newell
''Wonkette'' is an American online magazine of topical and political gossip, established in 2004 by Gawker Media and founding editor Ana Marie Cox. The editor since 2012 is Rebecca Schoenkopf, formerly of ''OC Weekly''. ''Wonkette'' covers U.S. politics from Washington, D.C. to local schoolboards. Taking a sarcastic tone, the site focuses heavily on humorous breaking news, rumors, and the downfall of the powerful. It also deals with serious matters of politics and policy, producing in-depth analysis. Launch and history ''Wonkette'' was established in January 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network. Its founding editor was Ana Marie Cox, a former editor at suck.com. Cox rapidly established a large reading audience and media notice for the site. The blog gained further national media attention after Cox publicized the story of Jessica Cutler aka "Washingtonienne", a former Hill staffer who blogged about her affair with a member of former Senator Mike DeWine's staff. Cox announc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Online Magazine
An online magazine is a magazine published on the Internet, through bulletin board systems and other forms of public computer networks. One of the first magazines to convert from a print magazine format to being online only was the computer magazine ''Datamation''. Some online magazines distributed through the World Wide Web call themselves webzines. An ezine (also spelled e-zine) is a more specialized term appropriately used for small magazines and newsletters distributed by any electronic method, for example, by electronic mail (e-mail/email, see Zine). Some social groups may use the terms cyberzine and hyperzine when referring to electronically distributed resources. Similarly, some online magazines may refer to themselves as "electronic magazines", "digital magazines", or "e-magazines" to reflect their readership demographics or to capture alternative terms and spellings in online searches. An online magazine shares some features with a blog and also with online newspapers, bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ken Layne
Ken Layne is an American writer, publisher and broadcaster best known for his political blogging in the early 2000s and his association with Gawker Media and ''Wonkette'' from 2006 to 2012. He is the proprietor of ''Desert Oracle'', a self-published periodical and radio program exploring themes related to the Mojave Desert and the Southwestern United States. Layne has also written for outlets such as ''The New York Times'', the ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Awl'' and '' LA CityBeat''. Career Early career After graduating from a San Diego, California magnet high school focused on broadcast journalism, Layne began his career in the mid-1980s reporting for Southern California newspapers before moving to Europe, where he worked for television, radio, and print journalism outlets in Macedonia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. In the late 1990s, Layne returned to the United States and turned to online journalism exclusively. In April 1997, Layne co-founded Tabloid.net, an online publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Weigel
David Weigel (born September 26, 1981) is an American journalist. He works for ''Semafor''. Weigel previously covered politics for ''The Washington Post,'' ''Slate,'' and ''Bloomberg Politics'' and is a contributing editor for ''Reason'' magazine. Early years and background Weigel was born and raised in Wilmington, Delaware. After moving to England in 1998, he graduated from the American Community School in Cobham, Surrey, in "the high Tory London suburbs" of the London commuter belt, in 2000. He moved to Evanston, Illinois in 2000 and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 2004 from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, with a double major in journalism and political science and a minor in history. While at college, Weigel wrote for ''The Daily Northwestern'' and was editor-in-chief of the campus's conservative newspaper ''Northwestern Chronicle''. In the summer of 2001, he also had a "fun" internship at the libertarian Center for Individual Rights. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Post
''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large national audience. Daily broadsheet editions are printed for D.C., Maryland, and Virginia. The ''Post'' was founded in 1877. In its early years, it went through several owners and struggled both financially and editorially. Financier Eugene Meyer purchased it out of bankruptcy in 1933 and revived its health and reputation, work continued by his successors Katharine and Phil Graham (Meyer's daughter and son-in-law), who bought out several rival publications. The ''Post'' 1971 printing of the Pentagon Papers helped spur opposition to the Vietnam War. Subsequently, in the best-known episode in the newspaper's history, reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein led the American press's investigation into what became known as the Watergate scandal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Gillespie
Nicholas John Gillespie (; born August 7, 1963) is an American libertarian journalist who was editor-in-chief of ''Reason'' magazine from 2000 to 2008 and editor-in-chief of Reason.com and Reason TV from 2008 to 2017. Gillespie originally joined Reason's staff in 1993 as an assistant editor and ascended to the top slot in 2000. He is currently an editor-at-large at ''Reason''. Gillespie has edited one anthology, ''Choice: The Best of Reason''. Life and career Gillespie was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in Monmouth County, New Jersey, where he graduated from Mater Dei High School. His educational history includes a B.A. in English and psychology from Rutgers University and a M.A. in English from Temple University, as well as a Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He has two sons, Jack and Neal Gillespie. Before joining Reason, Gillespie worked at a number of small trade magazines and other journalistic outlets. In an intervie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reason Magazine
''Reason'' is an American libertarian monthly magazine published by the Reason Foundation. The magazine has a circulation of around 50,000 and was named one of the 50 best magazines in 2003 and 2004 by the ''Chicago Tribune''. History ''Reason'' was founded in 1968 by Lanny Friedlander (1947–2011), a student at Boston University, as a more-or-less monthly mimeographed publication. In 1970 it was purchased by Robert W. Poole Jr., Manuel S. Klausner, and Tibor R. Machan, who set it on a more regular publishing schedule. As the monthly print magazine of "free minds and free markets", it covers politics, culture, and ideas with a mix of news, analysis, commentary, and reviews. During the 1970s and 80s, the magazine's contributors included Milton Friedman, Murray Rothbard, Thomas Szasz, and Thomas Sowell. In 1978, Poole, Klausner, and Machan created the associated Reason Foundation, in order to expand the magazine's ideas into policy research. Marty Zupan joined ''Reason'' in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II ( ; born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and as an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004, and previously worked as a civil rights lawyer before entering politics. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii. After graduating from Columbia University in 1983, he worked as a community organizer in Chicago. In 1988, he enrolled in Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the '' Harvard Law Review''. After graduating, he became a civil rights attorney and an academic, teaching constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004. Turning to elective politics, he represented the 13th district in the Illinois Senate from 1997 until 2004, when he ran for the U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comics Curmudgeon
The Comics Curmudgeon is an American blog devoted to humorous and critical analysis of newspaper comics. Its author, Josh Fruhlinger, is a freelance writer and editor based in Los Angeles. Content For each blog post, author Josh Fruhlinger selects two to eight comic strips for comment, usually focused on topics such as poor artwork, inappropriate coloring, nonsensical plots, and sexual subtext or innuendo. Long-running soap opera-style comic strips such as '' Apartment 3-G'', '' Mark Trail'', and ''Mary Worth'' bear the brunt of Fruhlinger's humor, an emphasis that he attributes to their being " heperfect targets for the sort of metatextual detached irony that is our generation's terrible contribution to Western civilization." Fruhlinger's blog also features commentary on long-running legacy cartoons like ''Family Circus'' and '' B.C.'' Weekly "metaposts" update readers on notable events in Fruhlinger's life, such as his July 22, 2008, appearance on the game show ''Jeopardy!'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juli Weiner
Juli Weiner is an American writer known for her work on the HBO show '' Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.'' Biography Weiner is a native of Maple Glen, Pennsylvania. Her father is a heart surgeon. She graduated from Upper Dublin High School and from Barnard College in 2010. In college, she interned for '' Teen Vogue'' and blogged for ''Wonkette''. She also wrote for ''The Huffington Post'' and ''The New Yorker''. She was also the editor of '' Bwog'' and ''The Blue and White'', both student-run publications at Columbia. She joined ''Vanity Fair'' in February 2010 while an undergraduate at Barnard. Donald Trump called her a "bad writer" after she wrote an online piece critical of him in 2011. Weiner joined the staff of '' Last Week Tonight with John Oliver'' as one of only two women in the writing staff. She won five Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series as a member of the writing staff from 2016 to 2020 and was nominated for another Emmy Award in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue And White
''The Blue and White'' is a magazine written by undergraduates at Columbia University, New York City. Founded in 1890, the magazine has dedicated itself throughout its existence to providing students an outlet for intellectual and political discussion, literary publication, and general parody. History Founded in 1890, the magazine disbanded for unknown reasons in 1893. It was not until 1998 that a handful of undergraduates revived the journal based on the original format. The staff has since grown to several dozen writers and contributors. In switching to a monthly in 2005, the magazine affirmed its place as a campus fixture. Recently, the magazine has begun to focus more on pieces of "hard" journalism, in contradistinction to its former, less serious, and more literary character. ''The Blue and White'' staff meets in the crypt of St. Paul's Chapel (Columbia University), St. Paul's Chapel. ''Bwog'' In 2006, ''The Blue and White'' established ''Bwog'', an online blog counterp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IvyGate
IvyGate was a blog and online news source covering news and gossip at Ivy League universities. The site was written and edited by students and recent graduates. History IvyGate was founded in 2006 by Columbia University alumni Chris Beam and Nick Summers. The blog covers the "follies" of Ivy League schools, such as a Princeton University class president accused of setting a squirrel on fire, a University of Pennsylvania graduate student who turned out to be in prison, and a Yale Skull and Bones member arrested for burning an American Flag. ] IvyGate rose to prominence through its investigative reporting of the details of the " Impossible is Nothing" Internet meme, concerning an impossibly boastful video résumé produced by then Yale student Aleksey Vayner. It was a nominee for the 2006 Weblog Award for "Best Educational Blog". A minor controversy arose in December 2006 involving Beam's father, prominent ''Boston Globe'' columnist Alex Beam. The younger Beam had covered a Bro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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