In your deadly Tuesday media column: Arena is dead, Steven Brill is back to save journalism (with Emily???), the Washington Post tries to cut pay creatively, and our Martha Stewart feud continues: Arena , a 22 year-old men's magazine based in the UK, is being folded by Bauer publishing. Its final is...

After Clay Felker passed away Tuesday morning in Manhattan, The Observer spoke to some who knew him well.   Robert Benton The first time I ever screamed “fuckâ€� in front of a room full of women was when I got mad at Clay at the Esquire offices. We were having this argument that went up and d...

Selling products is the Holy Grail online. For all the bluster about audience size and advertising, pure American consumerism is still the end-all, beat-all for companies. Amazon and Ebay have always understood that, although it's a bit unfair to hold them up as righteous examples because their mode...

Our day just wouldn't feel complete without an update from the spittle-streaked slapfight surrounding Fanboys, the geek-world equivalent of a cuddly endangered panda being shepherded to its unwitting demise through the dark reaches of Harvey's Ye Olde Butchery and Movie Co. The pimpled purists still...