During a 6-minute segment on the Saturday Early Show on CBS, co-host Erica Hill spoke with liberal journalists Mort Zuckerman, editor in chief of U.S. News and World Report, and Steven Kornacki of the New York Observer, about the future of the Republican Party. Republican strategist and CNN contribu...

Lawyers vs. real-estate developers? It's a fight almost everyone else wins. Boston Properties, the real-estate empire of U.S. News publisher Mort Zuckerman, has given up on a 39-story tower in Hell's Kitchen. The all-glass office building in a formerly residential Manhattan neighborhood was to cost ...

Filed under: Scandals This post is part of our feature on Money Losers of 2008 . See all 20. As we learn more about the scandal involving the investment businesses managed by Wall Street power broker Bernard Madoff, it's a tale of failure by government regulators and investors alike. Madoff saw a we...

Mort Zuckerman and Fred Wilpon are just the beginning of what is likely to be a deluge of real estate heavies victimized by anti-mensch Bernard Madoff . “I wish I could get my hands on him,â€� said one prominent New York real estate owner, who would only talk to us without attribution. “I didnâ€...

newVideoPlayer("/mort_morningjoe_gawker.flv", 480, 360,""); Citigroup is a pathetic loser of a corporation having needed three bailouts in as many decades. "Another large exposure for uncertain benefits," the corporate apologists at the Wall Street Journal editorial page declared of the latest Citi ...

The October Vanity Fair is off the newsstands now, so I can finally post the page I wrote and designed for the issue's Vanities section. It's Rupert Murdoch's profile on Richbook, the Facebook spinoff for the ridiculously affluent. (I've been angling for an invite, but my bank account isn't anywhere...

Mort Zuckerman doesn't screw around. His Boston Properties could close as early as next week on its $2.8 billion purchase of the GM Building, according to Reuters. Just as intriguing, Reuters is reporting that Boston Properties is considering buying out the remainder of FAO Schwarz's lease on the gr...

"News Corporation, the global media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch, is withdrawing its bid to purchase Newsday. The withdrawal of the bid was first reported on the Web site of The Wall Street Journal, which is owned by the News Corporation.The bid withdrawal appears to be a reversal from ...

It's easy to get lost in the current era of Big Man in Town Journalism. Zell. Singleton, Murdoch. Tierney. Harte. So much of the recent drama in newspaper ownership change has been driven by personality, as keep-it-in-road, rationale profit-seeking companies turn up their noses at the prospects of b...

"Mortimer B. Zuckerman, the owner of The Daily News, believes he can snatch Newsday from Rupert Murdoch without offering a dime more than the $580 million already on the table. Mortimer B. Zuckerman will argue his bid has less potential for regulatory uncertainty." "Late Friday afternoon Mr. Zuckerm...