On July 6th, 2005, The Observer officially launched the Media Mob under editor Tom Scocca with a post that attempted—and failed—to introduce an awkward portmanteau word we thought would capture large media companies' incursions into the then-still novel medium of blogs. We called it (shudder) bl...

Your Friday media column is here! Today, possible newspaper death, sort-of magazine rebirth, news anchor lateral movement, and more chomping action: Last October, Men's Vogue , for the most part, died. Now it's back, in a sense! It's been cut back to twice a year, but to boost readership, it will "a...

Robert Downey Jr. has never looked hotter than on the cover of the upcoming Men’s Vogue.  The magazine has gone from publishing ten times a year to doing two seasonal editions.  The next issue, Spring 2009, will appear on the back of regular Vogue magazine in its April 2009 issue. For the fi...

Over the next week or two, the January issues of monthly magazines will start hitting newsstands—or perhaps “lightly floating onto newstands like little snowflakes� would be a better way of putting it. “A lot of people are really, really down in the dumps about what January looks like,� sa...

What would you wear every day if you could wear anything? We're talking no limits, not from bank accounts or corporate wardrobe requirements, not those snarky writers from US Weekly or the sexy lady judging the size of your 401k by the validity of your Rolex. One man in particular has had that choic...

It was hard to imagine anything less menacing than Hud Morgan in a bar fight, but a helpful tipster has supplied one: the Men's Vogue writer, dressed we presume as a gangster, at up-and-coming socialite Serena Merriman's fancy dress party, last weekend in Little Compton, Rhode Island. 28-year-old Mo...

Men are confident about their bodies and women aren’t. All these studies, where is the time? I’m amazed I keep up, even though I lose track of when, where and which topic. Yet another new study has come to light and it is one that states Australian men have difficulty recognizing extra kilograms...

Mens Vogue writer (and dater of teenage soap star Leven Rambin) Hud Morgan threw a loud-ass "champagne Easter party" in his West Village brownstone, where the frutini-drinking former gossip columnist lives in a studio somewhere on West 11th Street. One of his neighbors sent us a party report, writte...