David Carr on the NY Times and Star Trek
Rachel Sklar is the Editor-at-Large for Mediaite.com and a contributor to the Daily Beast. She was formerly a senior writer and editor at the Huffington Post and is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity. She recently launched online micro-giving site Charitini, and Twitters up a storm here.
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In this episode of The Daily Beast's new video series, Have a Drink With, Rachel Sklar talks Twitter, the pleasures of Diet Coke, and Star Trek versus Star Wars with David Carr of The New York Times.
Looking Busy for a Living
David Blum, former editor-in-chief of The Village Voice and The New York Press, teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. He is the author of Flash in the Pan: The Life and Death of an American Restaurant and Tick...Tick...Tick...: The Long Life & Turbulent Times of 60 Minutes.
With jobs disappearing faster than the polar ice cap, those who find themselves out of work must pit their wits against those who still cling to their paychecks.
I'm reading David Carr's The Night of the Gun. It's not only a brutally frank and compelling autobiography, but it reminds those who need it that, first, things could be a whole lot worse and, second, despite what F. Scott Fitzgerald sai...
Prior to founding ZelnickMedia, Strauss Zelnick was the President and CEO of BMG Entertainment. Zelnick is currently Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., CME (Columbia Music Entertainment of Japan), OTX, and ITN Networks. He serves on the boards of directors of Blockbuster Inc. and Naylor, LLC.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
The Daily Beast Video curates the most essential and entertaining video, and brings you original and exclusive productions from our talented contributors.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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