Emily & Doree are Gawker writers, I guess.**
and Atoosa is Atoosa Rubenstein who I had not heard of. youngest ever editor of Seventeen. and she was an intern at Sassy and is quoted in the book about how she was not the cool kind of dorky girl that Sassy was for.
Doree: She reminds me of that Lily Tomlin character. The little girl in the big chair.
Emily: Whoa! That is so dead on. I actually had to ask her to move when I was fishing my umbrella out of the pile by the door as I was leaving! I did not say, "Hi Atoosa, I'm sorry about being a part of the negative media. We kid because we love. Can you move so I can grab my umbrella?" But I SO should have.
Doree: I did not see her talking to Christina Kelly.
Emily: Thing is, she's very intimidating! I think being 7 feet tall is part of it.
Doree: But she was wearing a little girl dress! It's like she's playing dress up! Whenever she speaks in public she likes to tell the story of how she finally got to intern at Sassy.
Doree:It's like, she was rejected by the popular cheerleaders and the popular outcasts.
Emily: Her preferred narrative is "I was a teen dork, and not the cool kind."
Doree: Yeah. i was actually thinking, again, because I think about this a lot, how different my high school experience would've been with the internet. And Sassy was the perfect pre-internet magazine. And maybe that is what Atoosa is trying to do—recreate Sassy online. But it's not going to work! Heh.
Emily: It's not. But why isn't it?
Doree:There's something off about her sensibility
Emily: Exactly. And it's sad, because recreating a Sassylike thing online is actually a GREAT idea. (An idea that every woman in that room last night has probably spent some time seriously contemplating, I'd wager.) haven't people already tried to make a website central for young girls? I read a dot com start-up book (seems like a genre) about one for girls, how there were all the staff & the offices & the parties & no actual site yet...
Doree: Can we discuss Jane Pratt more fully? I felt like she was this specter.
Emily: She's a symbol of so many things. And the biggest revelation of the book, for me, was the confirmation what I'd heard for years—that her knack was for being a figurehead, and for putting wheels in motion—not so much for day-to-day running a magazine.
She's also a symbol of being very successful very young, and what a double-edged sword that can be. I think maybe that is one of the reasons why there's so much schadenfreude directed her way. huh, is there?
All these women (totally projecting, BTW!) grew up thinking, "I want to be the editor in chief of a national magazine when I'm 24!"
Doree: Yes. That. Also Karen Catchpole was TWENTY?
Emily: College = WAY overrated.
Doree: Oh, the only thing I wish the book had was PHOTOS. Why no photos? Or cover scans?
Emily: Faber & Faber. I mean, it's a book with a tight budget, it's for a niche audience.
Doree: Yeah yeah. Still! I would've loved some photos of the office.
Emily: I'm just glad it got published! I remember the editorial meeting when it was out on submission. Someone said, "Who would buy this book?" And I was like, "UM ME I WOULD BUY TWENTY."
Doree: Haha, seriously. But I think it will do OK. hca concluded will be popular bcs I was buying our stocked copy and Larissa was asking for it. (and already 1 allocated s.o., so okay it will sell. shld we display it? the current undergrads though probably too young - say seniors age 22 so born in 1985? were age 3 during first year when best.
Emily: Especially after I buy twenty! I'm a woman of my word.
**yes. frontpage sidebar:
- Editor: Emily Gould
- Associate Editor: Doree Shafrir
- Managing Editor: Choire Sicha
Eat The Press | Choire Sicha Returns To The Gawker Fold, Leaving The Observer | The Huffington Post
Choire Sicha is leaving the New York Observer to become Lead Editor at Gawker.com — returning to the company he left two years ago for the Observer.
So, what does the new job have that the old job doesn't — something that the old job was supposed to offer when it was the new job that got him to leave the old job which is now his new job?
We asked Sicha to clarify. "Working [at the Observer] is awesome. I recommend it to everyone," he told us in an instant-message exchange. "I was coming up on two years, and I felt the need for a change. It's also true that I was never in love with being tied to an office... Did you know that newspapers are non-smoking now?" Sicha denied that the move could be taken as a sign of things deteriorating at the Observer in the wake of its takeover by Jared Kushner, which, it has been quietly rumored, has led to some unhappiness on the part of the staff. Said Sicha: "It could be equally taken as a sign of things about to deteriorate at Gawker."
Sicha will re-up at Gawker beginning in early February, working with current editors Alex Balk and Emily Gould plus associate editor Doree Shafrir.
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