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    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 4:30PM 7/14/2009
    Six weeks ago, The New York Observer put an end to one of the New York media world's more entertaining guessing games by naming a replacement for its departing longtime editor, Peter Kaplan. The job went to Tom McGeveran, then the paper's online editor, on an interim basis. That appointment may...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 1:30PM 6/25/2009
    The people in charge at The New York Times Co. are all about transparency -- except when they're not. Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. and president Janet L. Robinson sent a memo to employees earlier today explaining what's been going on recently at the Boston Globe. (Short version: The...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 5:00PM 6/04/2009
    It looks like Mike Bloomberg has gotten over his pique at The New York Observer. The media mogul-turned mayor recently made headlines by getting snappish with a reporter from the salmon-colored weekly at a press conference. The reporter, Azi Paybarah, had asked Bloomberg a question about his plan...