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Rona Berg, a former New York Times Magazine beauty editor, has partnered with Herndon, Virginia-based Homestead Communications Corp. to launch Organic Beauty, a bimonthly targeting women interested in “green” personal care products and cosmetic procedures.read more

It's easy to criticize New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. It sometimes seems like his leadership of the paper consists chiefly of commercializing the paper's brand (eg. launching "Thursday Styles" and the T magazine franchise), or taking measures long after their necessity had become obvious (eg.

-While you were getting drunk on champagne in the early minutes of 2009, executives from Time Warner Cable and Viacom were hammering out a new carriage agreement, ending an ugly stand-off. [THR]

-Kathy Griffin brought a little extra salt to CNN's New Year's festivities. Anderson Cooper was simply scandalized. [NYP]

Faced with a $400 million revolving credit agreement due in May and falling ad revenues, WSJ.com reports that the New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) is getting serious about selling its 17.5 percent stake in New England Sports Ventures LLC.

NBC's decision to give Jay Leno a nightly talk show during primetime was clearly a watershed moment in one way or another. But what did it mean, exactly?

Across a slowly growing number of blogs and online video sites, celebrities can be found making unscripted conversation about NYTimes.com features they cannot live without.
The effort, New York Times...

Last night was the book party for The Man Who Owns the News, Michael Wolff's generally admiring biography of News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch. Shortly after the party got under way, I asked the author -- whose willingness to make himself persona non grata is a big part of his appeal -- how he felt about being described in Newsweek as "the world's most abrasive media journalist."

At some point, the people who insist About.com is for sale may be right—a stopped clock is right twice a day, too. But while others see it as an asset that could raise money, New York Times (NYSE: NYT) CEO Janet Robinson says About.com is too valuable to the company.

And while New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is trying to find more financing for the company next year, the website is where it is at, or so it says in a new marketing campaign, available here online.

New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT) CEO Janet Robinson warned investors today that advertising is dropping at an unexpected rate and that "2009 will be among the most challenging years we have faced and more steps will be needed." That includes exploring financing alternatives, among them raising up to $225 million against its mid-Manhattan headquarters, as reported earlier this week.  CFO Jim Follo said that will take the form of a sale-leaseback and that the proceeds will be u