Item: Us Weekly magazine has announced that, effective immediately, it will no longer purchase paparazzi photos taken in a manner that may have endangered the subject.

That's a big, positive step to help cool the war between the most irresponsible members of the paparazzi and the most picture-resistant among the...

On the day that actor Russell Crowe got himself arrested for allegedly tossing a telephone at a hotel employee in New York City -- just the latest incidence of bad behavior by the petulent, hypertalented Aussie -- many who obssess over the film industry's bizarre-ness are still abuzz over some...

News about politics, scandals, and crime travels fast. A fine example was this week's revelation about "Deep Throat." It broke around mid-day here in the East. So while the cable-TV channels had it out there pretty quickly, I imagine millions of busy working folks learned of the Vanity Fair scoop...

I had a profoundly visceral reaction to today's news that five prestigious journalism schools are joining forces -- and, to some extent, checkbooks -- in the interest of producing a new generation, presumably a better generation, of reporters and editors.

On the one hand, how can anyone quarrel with...

Yesterday, bearing Huffington Post press tags (thus the first HuffPo contributor to be so adorned?), I attended the World Magazine Congress at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. I hung around with 900 or so magazine nuts, saw some old friends and colleagues, roamed the corridors in search of celebs, picked up...

Maybe it's a sign of the perilous times in which we live, but everyone, it seems, wants to be anonymous these days. (Except screenwriters, who already are way too anonymous and, in their quiet desperation, seek a little attention, just a mention here and there, even when their films suck.)...

So now it finally emerges -- the truth about Saddam Hussein's underwear. He wears briefs, white, probably knit.

Pictures of the nearly naked former dictator were splashed across the front page of two big newspapers Friday morning, one in London, the other in New York. Not surprisingly, both papers are...

To those who follow the ups and downs of media behemoth Time Warner, some comments made yesterday by CEO Dick Parsons will probably be of interest. Some may even be surprising.

Parsons spoke at a gathering of Time Inc. alumni, on the eighth floor of New York City's Time &...

Ann Coulter is the butt of one of the more wildly popular -- and hideously base -- blogs on the Internet these days.

The blog, which has found a receptive worldwide audience in less than a month's time, goes by the name "I F**ked Ann Coulter In the A**,...

I get both Time* and Newsweek at my house, but not simultaneously. My habit has been to subscribe to Time for a year or two, then switch over to Newsweek. Just to keep a sense of impartiality around here and to monitor the competition between our two top national newsweeklies...

It's been a long time since anyone cared about Penthouse magazine, so word today that its new owner is trying like the devil to revive its nearly lifeless body did not exactly get me excited.

Still, when I read that the publisher plans to kill off all those raunchy...

It's an awful shame that Aaron Brown needs defending at all, but the fact of the matter is that the poor guy has got more than his share of vocal critics.

I once heard Walter Isaacson, then the president of CNN, tell a small audience that Brown was the...

A couple of nights ago, just before dropping into bed, I checked my e-mail inbox, as is my practice. I wish I hadn't.

One of the messages brought such horrible, sad news that it's been nearly impossible to think about much else since I read it. The e-mail, forwarded...

This morning, as I exercised aboard my treadmill -- a pointless routine if ever there was one -- I scanned most of the TV-news-and-chat programs. Today, GMA, American Morning, some of the local shows here in New York. Even Imus, on MSNBC. I do this five times a week, usually...

I've spent the last several days contemplating -- and fretting about -- a piece that the writer Jesse Kornbluth contributed to Mediabistro.com last week. Its title: "The Internet Tail Will Come to Wag the Magazine Dog." His main point is that magazines as we know them are essentially dead...