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How money, personality, and ego almost cost HBO its most acclaimed drama since of Games of Thrones. An exclusive excerpt from the media read of the year. On Sunday nights [...]

THE DAILY SHOW (THE BOOK)An Oral HistoryBy Chris SmithIllustrated. 459 pp. Grand Central Publishing. $30. After an election in which facts could be oh so elusive, it's instructive to look [...]

Byline: BY MAX CHAFKIN, PETER KAFKA, JOHN KOBLIN, NICOLE LaPORTE, and DUFF McDONALD THE POWERS THAT BE Having earned their place in the firmament, the top 25 mandarins include titans [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN 'Brand Officer' vs. Editor Just after 1 A.M. on Jan. 31, the editor in chief of Condé Nast's Bon Appétit, Adam Rapoport, looked like he was on [...]

MEMO PAD THREE-PEATS: Big surprise at Tuesday's Digital Ellie ceremony: Adam Moss took home awards in the top two categories. Moss' New York Magazine won for best Web site and [...]

MEMO PAD LOTS OF LIFESTYLE MOVES: Laura Lang has been at the helm of Time Inc. for two months and she's ready to get to work with the help of [...]

MEMO PAD THE CONDE NAST TEAM: Condé Nast is beginning to add executives the way Vanity Fair signs up contributing editors the masthead looks a little fatter each time you [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN WSJ. Gains As T Battles NEW YORK Five years ago, The New York Times had a real business on its hands when it badly needed one. T: [...]

MEMO PADCUT TO THE BUZZ: BuzzFeed editor in chief Ben Smith has poached Amy Odell from New York Magazine's The Cut blog.Odell will start at BuzzFeed at the end of [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Food Advertisers Cinching Belts In 2009, when the luxury market crashed and magazines were averaging 25 percent ad page declines, there was one part of the magazine [...]

MEMO PAD YOU'VE GOT MALE: Yves Saint Laurent is putting some advertising muscle behind its men's collection. Creative director Stefano Pilati has tapped David Sims who also shot YSL's women's [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN STEERING JOHNSON PUBLISHING Desirée Rogers Finding Her Way Eighteen months ago, not long after leaving the White House, Desirée Rogers had a big problem on her hands. [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Who Sold in 2011 (And Who Didn't) No matter what crisis there is on the newsstand, there are a few people who sell no matter what. Take [...]

MEMO PAD OF PARENTS AND PROGENY: Two months later, this latest, somewhat ridiculous New York Times-Huffington Post dispute looks like it's all but over. The Huffington Post's Lisa Belkin wrote [...]

Byline: John Koblin Pressing Matters A look at some of the top moments in media. THE TIMES' NEW EDITOR AND A PAYWALL The New York Times launched a paid model [...]

MEMO PAD RAIDING THE TIMES: Graydon Carter has tapped T, The New York Times Style Magazine's senior photo editor Judith Puckett-Rinella to become Vanity Fair's new photo director. Puckett-Rinella has [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Tough Times at Newsweek On Nov. 7, a memo was handed out to Newsweek reporters and editors. The note detailed a new process in how to pitch [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN The Three Musketeers of Condé Nast Ride Again NEW YORK Graydon, Anna and David have their other projects, of course. Graydon Carter, editor in chief of Vanity [...]

MEMO PAD ALI HEWSON'S NEW MEN: Edun is putting its men's business in the spotlight this season via an online marketing campaign featuring a roster of guys with both style [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN CBS Hopes for No Delays After Tuesday Rainout Rain canceled U.S. Open action on Tuesday, and with bad weather forecast for the rest of the week, a [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN GRAND PAM Shriver Serves As Courtside Jester 'I hate sitting still,' said Pam Shriver. It was Tuesday evening, and Shriver, the ESPN tennis analyst, just introduced herself. [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN The Flushing Meadows Diet NEW YORK Only three men over the last seven years have won the U.S. Open, so what will it take to knock five-time [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN BRAT ATTACK America's next great hope has more work to do: 19-year-old Ryan Harrison was manhandled in the first round of the Open on Monday in a [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN The World Is Flat Over the last year, a bunch of new editors in chief have moved into big magazine jobs. There have been redesigns, overhauled staffs, [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN and ZEKE TURNER Wall Street Journal In Strange Position Four years ago, as Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. began its takeover of Dow Jones, there was unrest in [...]

MEMO PAD NICK'S NEXT ACT: Nickelson Wooster , who last month resigned as men's fashion director for Neiman Marcus Group Services, has a new gig: fashion adviser to Gilt Man. [...]

MEMO PAD HOMEBODIES: After stints at the country club, a Thanksgiving picnic and a tailgate party, the Hilfigers, a fictional all-American family made up of eclectic characters, are settling in [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Abramson Era May Shake Up The Times NEW YORK For the last eight years, outgoing New York Times executive editor Bill Keller and incoming executive editor Jill [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Dude, Where's My Magazine? NEW YORK A few weeks ago, Bon Appétit editor in chief Adam Rapoport and New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren went out [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN and AMY WICKS MAGAZINE APPS Tablet As Savior? Not Quite Yet, Industry Says Eleven months ago, when Condé Nast launched its Wired app on the iPad and [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Print is Alive! Just ask four former magazine editors who gave up the ink-stained world for the Web. A year ago at this time, three ex-magazine editors [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM ZEKE TURNER AND AMY WICKS Speaking Frankly: New York Gets Rich NEW YORK Five weeks ago, Frank Rich sent an e-mail to New York [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Singer Ts Off NEW YORK 'There's just really, really amazing text,' said Sally Singer. 'Amazing text.' Last Thursday at 7:30 p.m., the editor of T: The New [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN PHOTO BY DAN D'ERRICO Rupe and Scoop NEW YORK On Wednesday morning, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch was in the basement at the Guggenheim Museum here and [...]

Byline: JOHN KOBLIN Jets Flyin' Under Ryan On Tuesday, two players from New York's stately football team, the Giants, went on a radio station to talk about their season. Antrel [...]

Byline: BY JOHN KOBLIN AND AMY WICKS The Men Steering Hearst NEW YORK It was a few minutes before 10 p.m. on Monday night and Hearst Magazines top executive David [...]

MEMO PAD FRENCH TOAST: Could history repeat itself and see a fashion stylist helming Vogue Paris? A source said the title's fashion director, Emmanuelle Alt , is in pole position [...]

Byline: John Koblin MEMO PAD NOT THAT APP-Y: Remember when Wired's debut issue for the iPad sold more than 100,000 times in June? It looks like it will be a [...]

MEMO PAD LOVE ALL: While sticking to the sports world, Giorgio Armani is turning to a tennis champ for the first time for his new Emporio Armani Underwear and Armani [...]

MEMO PAD CALENDAR GIRLS AND BOYS: Designer Karl Lagerfeld unveiled 'Mythology,' the latest Pirelli Calendar, at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Moscow as temperatures fell to -16 Centigrade, or 3 degrees [...]

MEMO PAD SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT: Salvatore Ferragamo jumps into the social media arena today with a new viral project, the W List, centered around the fall 2010 reissue of the its [...]

Byline: John Koblin A Different Kind of Daily for Murdoch NEW YORK Some of us count sheep, but Rupert Murdoch spends his sleepless nights dreaming up media properties. It was [...]

Byline: John Koblin Lindgren vs. Moss Protégé Battles Mentor As Media World Watches Late one night in early February 2009, at the headquarters of New York Magazine at 75 Varick [...]

MEMO PAD EXIT, QUICKLY: When Tom Florio lured Carol Smith away from her top perch as chief brand officer at Elle magazine to take on the food group at Condé [...]

MEMO PAD MUSICAL CHAIRS?: As the Bettencourt saga intensifies media coverage increases in kind. Now the focus has shifted onto whether Liliane Bettencourt , the daughter of L'Oréal's founder and [...]

Byline: John Koblin Condé Changes Style.com Joins Fairchild Group NEW YORK The Condé Nast Web site Style.com is becoming part of Fairchild Fashion Group, effective immediately. The editorial team at [...]

MEMO PAD KORS SPEAKS OUT: Writer Dan Savage 's month-old 'It Gets Better Project' just got a fashionable boost courtesy of Michael Kors . No stranger to cameras, Kors submitted [...]

MEMO PAD SHADES OF GRAY: Gray, the emblematic color of Christian Dior and synonymous with London's weather, is also the theme of the next Marion Cotillard -fronted campaign for the [...]