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Jun 05 2008 12:00am EDT

Idle Chatter: HuffPo as Fad; Maxim on Office Sex

Election season has bolstered the Huffington Post's numbers, but C.E.O. Betsy Morgan doesn't think it's a temporary upswing: "People are interested in politics 365 days of the year." [Portfolio]

Thomas A. Johnson, the first black reporter at the New York Times when he joined in 1966, is dead at 79. [NYT]

Felix Dennis on launching Maxim: "You think Maxim ever sat around tittering, considering whether we would ask Gabriel Garcia Marquez to write for us? No. We sat around thinking about 'Office Sex: Your Desk Or Mine?' " [BW]

Slatemedia critic Jack Shafer chastises news reports that focus on where Clinton went wrong, saying "Obama won by winning, not by Clinton losing." [Slate]

ProPublica has made seven new hires, poaching three journalists from Texas newspapers. [Romenesko]

by George Quraishi

(Jeff Bercovici is on vacation.)


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