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It's a measure of Harry Paster's ubiquity in the ad industry that I cannot recall when I first met him. Plumbing the depths of memory, I can dredge up no [...]

The relaunch of a transmogrified Details has set magazine junkies speculating anew about the future of the men's rag marketplace. The 'whithering' assessments always end with the same query: 'So [...]

The new york media elite. You know them. I know them. Lelyveld of The Times. Rather, Brokaw and Jennings of the network newscasts. Brown, Newhouse, Pearlstine, Carter of the newsstands. [...]

If you listen between the lines of the New York Post these days, you may hear the sound of sweat dropping. The object of its fear is its West Side [...]

At the heart of the Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television & Radio Artists strike against the advertising industry is the latter's misunderstanding of New Economy principles, an error so [...]

So yahoo! is getting amazoned. Its share price is plummeting. It's become the subject of unflattering attention from a business press which, due to the bounty of dot-com advertising, is [...]

Those who forget the past are doomed not to repeat it. This adaptation of the hoary old saw is meant to be a rumination on the uses of history in [...]

Time was when summer meant TV reruns, Friday ad agency closings and editorial meetings in Sag Harbor. This year, summertime was all about media business models. Herewith, some observations on [...]

Exactly one year ago, after months of expectant fanfare, Talk went on sale. The 'chattering classes' that Editor Tina Brown had helped coalesce during her spectacular runs at Tatler, Vanity [...]

You don't hear the phrase 'truth in advertising' much these days, but in decades past, it was a real cause celebre, a public issue on a par with Lady Bird [...]

A lesson from the current dispute over Napster -- not to mention author Stephen King's Web ventures, the new electronic publishing schemes of several major book companies and my $200 [...]

In the '80s, you couldn't get up in the morning without tripping over a new boutique advertising agency crawling underfoot. They made great copy with their savage attacks on the [...]

Today's word is 'bundle.' Until recently, a bundle was the essential unit of commerce in the infotainment industries. If you liked music, you had no choice but to buy the [...]

And then there were none. Uh, three. I mean two. Maybe one. I'm talking about the Saatchis, of course. The lack of comment around the ultimate demise of Saatchi & [...]

Let's see. You can't invest in digital upstarts like Pets.com any more because they're about to run out of money. But you can't fly to quality because companies like Coke [...]

Two weeks ago, I called several Internet content sites and new economy magazines 'houses of cards' that lacked distinctive value propositions ('Tough times for magazines in tough times for Web [...]

It was late. The day's work had edged to a close and my brain needed the uncluttering only an engrossing narrative could engineer. I leaned back in my facsimile Herman [...]

Journalism is at last being made subject to a market test. Hooray! Journalism is not at all being made subject to a market test. Huzzah!! I'm confused. In the past [...]

Journalism is at last subject to a market test. Hooray! Journalism is not at all subject to a market test. Huzzah!! I'm confused. In the past two weeks, journalism -- [...]

It was my first day at New York Magazine. A newly minted editorial assistant, two weeks out of college, eager and anxious, I had been given the assignment to fact-check [...]

I knew we had crossed a bridge in the infotainment industry when two weeks ago I returned home from a hectic day in the literary trenches to this revelation from [...]

Amsterdam, may 20 -- The collapse of Boo.com, one of Europe's highest profile Internet startups, has reminded me yet again that the concept of 'fast branding,' floated and ridiculed in [...]

Remember the Time Warner-Disney dustup of a few weeks back? You know, the contract dispute over carriage of and payment for Disney's TV networks by Time Warner's cable systems, which [...]

By the time you read this, the advertising industry's version of 'Antiques Road Show' should be over, and Young & Rubicam will be in the clutches of WPP Group. ('You [...]

I was dining with an old friend a few afternoons ago and was telling him how, until very recently, I had been feeling like Odysseus in the Internet Economy. 'What [...]

Twenty-three years ago, as a waif covering politics, I sat down with a conservative young man who had bested a moderate Republican incumbent to win his party's nomination to the [...]

Kurt Andersen Co-Chairman, Powerful Media dba Inside.com, New York April 24, 2000 Dear kurt: Go home. During the past few days, it's been impossible to turn a corner without confronting [...]

Underlying the tiny but telling tempest over the Leonardo DiCaprio affair at ABC News is the inexorable march of demographics. Put bluntly, the viewers of TV news are dying out. [...]

With the industrial world diz-zying itself over the prospects of electronic business-to-business marketplaces, one is prompted to ask a question with profound implications for the media and marketing industries: Why [...]

Does it strike anyone as peculiar that in this time of earth-shifting economic growth, venerable magazine brands are breaking apart and disappearing like so much Depression glass? The past few [...]

Way back in the '80s, if you put a few drinks into an agency executive (not hard) and got him complaining (also not hard) about the forces destroying the advertising [...]

Does it strike anyone as peculiar that in this time of earth-shifting economic growth, venerable magazine brands are breaking apart and disappearing like so much Depression glass? The past 10 [...]

The new rose center for earth & space at new York's American Museum of Natural History represents the absolute triumph of design in public life. This is not a good [...]

The new rose center for Earth & Space at New York's American Museum of Natural History represents the absolute triumph of design in public life. This is not a good [...]

If you are in advertising, I urge you to Barnes & Noble it immediately and acquire yourself a copy of 'The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business As Usual.' This [...]

The most misbegotten, misunderstood, misused entity in the New Economy is 'The Business Model.' The Business Model is a description of how an enterprise is to be organized to seek [...]

I used to pity receptionists at Messner Vetere Berger McNamee Schmetterer/Euro RSCG. I no longer do because when it comes to such pressing issues as the agency's role in the [...]

The demise of Meigher Communications is a sad and cautionary tale for anyone in the magazine business. Sad because Meigher appeared to be doing everything right. Cautionary because even doing [...]

Davos, switzerland -- As I was exiting the vaulted restaurant at one of the finer hotels in this Alpine ski resort, the chief executive of a Kuwaiti dairy company tapped [...]

Paris -- In the timeless and contentious debate over whether advertising is an art or merely crass commerce, leave it to the French to have it both ways -- and [...]

The demise of Meigher Communications is a sad and cautionary tale for anyone in the magazine business. Sad because Meigher appeared to be doing everything right. Cautionary because even doing [...]

I remember running down to The New York Times newsroom that Sunday in 1989 when the Time Inc. and Warner Bros. merger was announced with one question in my mind: [...]

If you want to know the very first place where the Internet will utterly transform the traditional communications industries, get up tomorrow and listen closely to your clock radio. The [...]

You'd think Ad Age would've given me notice. But no. Instead, a week before Christmas I get a call. 'Guess what? No column for the next two weeks.' What a [...]

'Uncle randy,' my 11-year-old niece said to me the other day, 'I know what I want to be when I grow up. I want to be a brand.' I was […]

I'd like to depart from the script this week and explain my fervent hope that Bill Bradley is elected the next president of the United States. This has nothing to […]

Who wants to be a millionaire? Well, duh! I do, for one. So to those who see in the success of ABC's game show ominous signs of the greed-driven decline […]

Aboard vs 009, Nov. 16, 1999-This is a tale of the Virgin miracle and the broken Windows. The Virgin miracle is the offspring of Richard Branson, a man who, up […]

The los angeles times' assault on the wall between advertising and editorial was not only a damaging move for the newspaper: It underscored the severe limitations of the packaged-goods mindset […]

While the novelty-obsessed concentrate on 'The New New Thing,' as wri-ter Michael Lewis dubs the basis of the Internet Economy, it might behoove the rest of us to pay heed […]