Michael Wolff

Why the Sun on Sunday Is Murdoch's Last Hurrah

Alexander Walters | Posted 04.22.2012

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Alexander Walters

There is one thing that motivates Rupert Murdoch more than money, power or prestige. It's the thrill of a challenge.

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Adweek Announces Change In Editorial Director

Posted 12.17.2011

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Adweek Editorial Director Michael Wolff is leaving Adweek. The magazine's parent company Prometheus Global Media announced the news on Monday. Jim Coo...

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Michael Calderone

Salon CEO Calls For 'American Spring'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.26.2011

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NEW YORK -- David Talbot has seen Salon go through several iterations since founding the site in 1995. He was Salon’s editor-in-chief for a decade a...

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Michael Wolff Not Worried About Latest Reports Of His Ouster

Reuters | Jack Shafer | Posted 11.16.2011

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Wolff, who has been attending the Paley Center for Media's International Council (IC) forum, didn't entirely refute the Post's latest claims, but he ...

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Memo to Murdoch -- WSJ: Flatlands Is in Brooklyn, Not the Bronx

Blake Fleetwood | Posted 08.30.2011

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Blake Fleetwood

2011-06-30-pullquote.jpgToday's front page of the WSJ's Metro section had a center picture with a headline reading: "Standoff in the Bronx." The problem is that the Flatlands is in Brooklyn, not the Bronx.

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Rupert Murdoch: God's Media Executive?

Posted 08.28.2011

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Vision. Guts. The initiative to "take a risk" and "go to the edge." These are all attributes that Bloomberg's Ron Grover claims Rupert Murdoch has, ea...

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Michael Wolff Folds Two Magazines

FishbowlNY | Chris O'Shea on April 11, 2011 4:48 PM | Posted 06.12.2011

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We mentioned this back in February, and now it appears to be happening: Brandweek and Mediaweek published their final print versions today, and will b...

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Michael Wolff To Lead Trade Magazine Group

mediaweek.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff, the award-winning journalist and entrepreneur, was named editorial director of AdweekMedia, the umbrella brand of Adweek, Mediaweek and...

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What Do We Do With Barack Obama?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

At this moment, we have a largely unrecognizable figure in the White House. The weirdly continuing questions about his birth place and religion may be not so much a slur as a demented metaphor for his real lack of identity -- and friends.

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Politicians Are Babies

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

In the UK, there are the Miliband brothers, David and Ed. Both brothers--who, by all reports, have been particularly close--held senior positions in ...

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Even I Can't Change CNN

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

I am waiting for Ken Jautz to take me to lunch. Jautz is the new head of CNN. I helped get him his job. I wrote a column in the August issue of Vanity...

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Even I Can't Change CNN

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

I am waiting for Ken Jautz to take me to lunch. Jautz is the new head of CNN. I helped get him his job. I wrote a column in the August issue of Vanity...

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Warren Beatty's Daughter: The Media Is Kind and Gentle -- or Carefully Controlled

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

I missed the story about Warren Beatty's 18-year-old daughter planning to have a sex-change operation. It's not a hidden story. It's been out there. And yet it's hardly made an impression.

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Could Carl Paladino Really Win?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

Theoretically, Paladino doesn't have a chance. And yet he is already so much more acceptable in his grossness and loucheness, and fascinating for it, than he was even just a little more than a week ago.

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Hacking Scandal: Murdoch to Blair -- Help!

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

A British banker once described for me what happened when Rupert Murdoch decided to make then-31-year-old son James the CEO of BSkyB, the UK satellite...

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Murdoch's Hacking Scandal: It's the Story That Keeps Giving

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

A longtime friend reminded me in an email this weekend, if the hacking scandal that has him on his uppers in London had happened in the US, it really would likely -- finally -- be curtains for Rupert.

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Rupertgate: The Loyalists Bark Back

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

Nobody for so long has so much pervaded and colored and upended the media and politics of Britain as Rupert Murdoch.

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Can the Brits Get Rupert?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

Even just a few weeks ago, who would have doubted the outcome of a competition between Rupert Murdoch and the New York Times?

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Is Murdoch Berlusconi? And Is Britain Italy?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

The Brits are terribly confused. The scandal that they thought had run out of gas is suddenly, as though by a deus ex machina, back full-steam. And y...

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News Corp. Is Freaking Out

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

"You don't get it," a member of News Corporation's inner circle in London told me last night, about the phone hacking scandal. "If there was a conspiracy in the company, the conspiracy was to keep Rupert from knowing."

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I Can Tell You About Steven Rattner's Tell-All

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

Steven Rattner, the onetime New York Times reporter, former investment banker, would-be private equity media mogul, Hillary Clinton mega-fundraiser, a...

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What Did Rupert Murdoch (and Son James) Know, and When Did They Know It?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

Don Van Natta Jr., the lead reporter on the New York Times' Sunday Magazine story about the phone hacking scandal that's engulfed some of Rupert Murdo...

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The Nutters Are Coming to Town

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

There is a fine and peculiar balance here between an establishment which regards tea party-sponsored candidates as ignorant and racist, and them becoming the establishment.

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So It's Victory in Iraq

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

This is going to be the talking point, not just that we've won, but that we've done something good: Government, infrastructure, police, incipient democracy, oil business, all up and running because of our dogged persistence.

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What Exactly Is Glenn Beck Talking About?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Wolff

That's the tragedy of Roger Ailes. He is so good at picking strange talent that they become bigger than him. Murdoch is afraid of Ailes. But Ailes is afraid of Bill O'Reilly.

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