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Rachel Sklar
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Rachel Sklar is the Editor-at-Large for Mediaite.com, coming soon to the screens of media addicts everywhere. She is the former Senior Contributing Editor for the Huffington Post and was the founding editor of the site's Eat The Press page. She has contributed to the New York Times, the Village Voice, Glamour, New York Magazine, the Financial Times, and numerous publications in her northern homeland of Canada, and is a frequent guest on networks including CNN, MSNBC and Fox News, with varying degrees of makeup. She works with media strategy firm Abrams Research and continues to write for a wide variety of publications.

Rachel recently launched the online charity site Charitini.com, which promotes micro-giving by allowing donors to substitute a small charitable donation for a "birthday drink" for a friend. She tried it for her birthday and woke up the next day with great karma and no hangover. Get her all liquored up for a good cause here.

Rachel is the author of A Stroke of Luck: Life, Crisis and Rebirth of a Stroke Survivor (with Howard Rocket, Canada: 1998), a contributor to several anthologies and is currently working on Jew-ish, a humorous book about cultural identity. She was recently named to Heeb magazine's "Heeb 100," Chatelaine magazine's "Canadian Women to Watch" and the Globe & Mail's "Ten Famous Canadians You've Never Heard Of," which she thinks was a compliment, and was a nominee for Webutante Queen, which she thinks was a joke. She was formerly a corporate lawyer in New York and Stockholm, where she never learned to like herring.

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TNR Sails The Seas With Eric Alterman The National Review

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

The New Republic has a terrific, terrific article in their latest issue, by British writer Johann Hari, who sailed on this year's National Review cruise...
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Old vs. New Media: Jack Kapica Still Doesn't Get It

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

First off: This isn't just a random, isolated matter involving an obscure Canadian columnist, nor is it a grudge match because I happen to...
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ETP is on the road...

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

...and thus will only be posting to our new and glorious page when we get a sec between danishes at Toronto's fabulous MESH conference, and...
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More To The Point, Chuck Klosterman Is Dating Someone Who Likes The Eagles???

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

'New York' Culture Blogger Flees To 'Rolling Stone' [Gawker] 32 Reasons Why The Eagles Are The Best Band In The Universe [New York Vulture...
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Great Lede Alert

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

"For the record, it isn't until the fourth page of the introduction to his new memoir, No Excuses, that Robert Shrum begins making excuses." —...
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Fox's War On Fat (Women)

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

We know Fox likes pretty ladies. Fine, who doesn't. But its tolerance for remarks deriding women for being overweight, or "overweight," is reaching glaring and...
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Welcome To ETP 2.0!

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

Greetings, readers! You have probably noticed soemthing different about Eat The Press today, perhaps beginning with when you went to our brand-new shiny Huffington Post,...
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The NYT Mag's Ad For "Knocked Up"

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

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Wow — you could do worse for the pre-buildup to a summer flick than a giant, 8000-word cover story in the New York Times magazine...
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The New York Times, Back On The Gossip Beat

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

Last year after the Page Six scandal broke, I noted on HuffPo how much the New York Times seemed to revel in the story (six...
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Rosie O'Donnell: Bully, Suck, Sore Loser

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

Unbelievable. Rosie O'Donnell actually quit The View, three weeks before her contract was up, like a big, blubbery baby. Seriously. There are huge ironies here,...
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Murdoch, Bancrofts Continue to Offer a Pointed Demonstration of Inertia

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

We figure its time for another installment of the ongoing saga of Rupert Murdoch and his bid to purchase Dow Jones. Currently, the state of...
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Olbermann's Special Comment: A Time.com Exclusive

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

Here is Keith Olbermann's "Special Comment" from last night, a blistering denunciation of Bush's "second surge" and the Democrats' weak-kneed agreement to go along with...
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"Coming Up, The Situation Room With That Jew Wolf Blitzer!"

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

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Men's Fitness Doctors Andy Roddick's Guns

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Rachel Sklar   |   March 28, 2008

On Friday, TMZ noticed that Andy Roddick looked rather buff in his recent Men's Fitness cover — weirdly, egg-white-and-whey-enzyme- muscle-building-protein-powder-with- a-dash-of-steroids buff. Were those really...