Jacob Weisberg

Weisberg on Loyalty

lies.com (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008

A decent article from Slate’s Jacob Weisberg: Loyalty is the most overrated virtue in politics.

Eliot Spitzer Slate.com Columnist

The PopCrunch Show (Free subscription) | yesterday

Eliot Spitzer’s landed a new gig. Beginning early next year, the disgraced former Governor of New York will demonstrate his expertise on government regulation and finance as a columnist with Slate.com. “He’s going to be doing a regular thing,” Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg tells the New York Observer. Spitzer watched his career crumble last March after [...]

A Very Warm Welcome To My New Slate Colleague

Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | yesterday

Five years ago, after a previously-little-known Attorney General named Eliot Spitzer got me kicked out of the securities industry, during a period when I was sure that, among other things, no one would ever be caught dead professionally associating with me again, an editor named Jacob Weisberg at Slate reached out a helping hand. With a big smile, Jacob said he liked the idea...

Spitzer to write Slate column titled "The Best Policy"

Everyday Ethics (Free subscription) | yesterday

New York Observer "He's going to be doing a regular thing," says Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg . "It'll be heavily about the financial crisis and fixing financial markets and the economy generally." Eliot Spitzer 's first column runs Thursday.

Slate Hires Sex Addict for New Bi-Weekly Column

Jossip (Free subscription) | yesterday

Eliot Spitzer, the man who will go down in history as launching Ashley Dupre to stardom, is finding his new gig post-governorship to be equally in the spotlight. Eliot will be the newest member of Slate's writing line-up for a biweekly column. "He's going to be doing a regular thing," said Jacob Weisberg, the editor-in-chief [...]

Kristol: ‘We won the war’ in Iraq.

Think Progress (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

Last night in New York, ABC News correspondent John Donovan moderated a debate between the Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol, former Bush aide Karl Rove, Slate editor Jacob Weisberg and Guardian columnist Sir Simon Jenkins. The most contentious part of the debate came during discussion over the invasion of Iraq, in which Kristol proclaimed outright that [...]

SPITZER'S SAY

New York Post (Free subscription) | yesterday

DISGRACED former Gov. Eliot Spitzer has a new gig: columnist for Slate.com, opining every other week about government regulation and finance - not sex. Yawn. "He's going to be doing a regular thing," Slate Group editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg tells...

Spitzer New Gig: Writing for Slate

Gothamist (Free subscription) | yesterday

Get ready for the Steamroller online : The Observer reports that Eliot Spitzer will start writing a column for Slate.com. Called, "The Best Policy," Slate editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg said, "He's going to be doing a regular thing. It'll be heavily about the financial crisis and fixing financial markets and the economy generally" (topics he covered in his Washington Post editorial last...

• Spitzer to write Slate column titled "The Best Policy" - Everyday Ethics
• Eliot Spitzer To Write Column For Slate - The Huffington Post
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Meet Slates New Columnist: Eliot Spitzer

RssDaily (Free subscription) | yesterday

Media Mob has learned that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer will write a new column for Slate beginning tomorrow. The column will appear every other week and it'll be about government, regulation and finance. "He's going to be doing a regular thing," said Jacob Weisberg, the editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. "It'll be heavily about the financial crisis and fixing financial markets...

• Meet Slate's New Columnist: Eliot Spitzer - The Media Mob
• Eliot Spitzer Slate.com Columnist - The PopCrunch Show
• See the 4 articles on the same subject

Eliot Spitzer To Write Column For Slate

The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

Media Mob has learned that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer will write a new column for Slate beginning tomorrow. The column will appear every other week and it'll be about government, regulation and finance. "He's going to be doing a regular thing," said Jacob Weisberg, the editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. "It'll be heavily about the financial crisis and fixing financial markets...

Meet Slate's New Columnist: Eliot Spitzer

The Media Mob (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008

Media Mob has learned that former New York governor Eliot Spitzer will write a new column for Slate beginning tomorrow. The column will appear every other week and it'll be about government, regulation and finance. "He's going to be doing a regular thing," said Jacob Weisberg, the editor-in-chief of the Slate Group. "It'll be heavily about the financial crisis and fixing financial markets...

Eliot Spitzer To Write On Economic Wrongdoing At Slate

Information Week (Free subscription) | yesterday

... rejoining society." Spitzer, however, didn't take much coaxing to get back in the public eye. Jacob Weisberg, editor in chief of the Slate Group, sought him out and proposed he write a bimonthly Slate column after reading a piece by him in The Washington Post on Nov. 16. Weisberg is an acquaintance of Spitzer's and said he had previously suggested to him that he write for Slate....

A Very Warm Welcome To My New Slate Colleague

TechChuck (Free subscription) | yesterday

Five years ago, shortly after a previously-little-known Attorney General named Eliot Spitzer got me kicked out of the securities industry, during a period when I was sure that, among other things, no one would ever be caught dead professionally associating with me again, an editor named Jacob Weisberg at Slate reached out a hand. With [...] Related stories As holiday season closes in,...

Ex-Gov. Spitzer debuts as columnist for Slate

News Channel 9: Local News (Free subscription) | yesterday

NEW YORK (AP) - Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer is back in the media, this time as a member of the Fourth Estate.On Wednesday evening, the online magazine Slate quietly posted Spitzer's first column, headlined "Too Big Not To Fail." It argued against costly economic government bailouts to huge financial institutions.Jacob Weisberg, the editor-in-chief of the Slate Group, owned by the Washington...

strategy + business picks of 2008 - dylan

800-CEO-READ Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday

... School Press by Nell Minow by Steve Weinberg, W.W. Norton * by Willie Brown, Simon & Schuster by Jacob Weisberg, Random House by Ted Sorensen, HarperCollins by Catharine P. Taylor* by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, Harvard Business Press by Christopher Vollmer, with Geoffrey Precourt, McGraw-Hill by Lucas Conley, PublicAffairs by Michael Schrage*` by Robert Schlesinger, Simon & Schuster...