Michael Wolff

As DailyFinance deduced way back in August, professional rude person Michael Wolff (Vanity Fair columnist and Newser.com co-founder) is joining e5 as the new editorial director of its media trade magazines.

Former Conde Nast executive Richard Beckman, who's been hiring big-name editors for his trade magazine group, may be courting Rupert Murdoch biographer and professional gadfly Michael Wolff for an editorial director position.

Monday night, Air America CEO Bennett Zier led a panel with two media bigwigs and polar opposites: Craig Newmark, the laid-back founder of Craigslist, a self-proclaimed nerd who launched CL, "without a plan," in San Francisco, and Michael Wolff, an officer in the sorority of New York media lust,...