Michael Wolff
Author & Columnist, Vanity Fair
Michael Wolff is a columnist for Vanity Fair and the founder of news aggregation site Newser.com. He is a two-time National Magazine Award winner, and his latest book, "The Man Who Owns the News," is a biography of News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch. Wolff's work has been widely anthologized and appeared in numerous publications, including New York Magazine, where he was a long-time columnist. He has also been an entrepreneur involved with the start-up of several online businesses.
The media entrepreneur defends his online aggregation site Newser and explains his lofty alternate career plans.
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If the weekly magazine is still being published 25 years from now, Michael Wolff will owe David Remnick a dinner.
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Once the paper begins charging for online content in January, the question will be: What does the New York Times become without its readers?
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“I can’t imagine why anyone would want to work for this guy,” says Michael Wolff of the Apple CEO.
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His first internet company tanked. So was Wolff nervous about launching Newser?
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The writer had a feeling of “immense relief that this quixotic enterprise of buying the magazine would not end up as my terrible fate.”
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Michael Wolff remembers his first time walking into the “depressing, smoke-filled” newsroom after he was hired—and knowing it wasn’t a place where he wanted to work.
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The billionaire media mogul was surprised that Wolff’s biography of him was so “personal.”
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A conversation with the Vanity Fair columnist, author of The Biography of Rupert Murdoch and founder of Newser.
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