The New York Times is trying to shift the emphasis internally from the front page of the print newspaper to the paper’s digital platforms. The paper will continue its traditional morning meetings, but rather than focusing on which stories will make the front page of the next day’s print edition, editors and writers will “compete for the best digital, rather than print, real estate.”

During the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Vice Media founder Shane Smith spent $300,000 on a meal at the Bellagio steakhouse, for a group of somewhere between twelve and twenty-five guests. He’d

The Columbia Journalism Review looks at the stats of the New Republic exodus: Where did the people who left go? What are the demographics of those replaced them? There are now five people of color and ten women on staff (out of twenty-one people altogether). Among the thirty-five former staffers, there were zero people of color and thirteen women. CJR also tallies how many of the current staff have ivy league degrees: Nine do, twelve do not. The balance has switched; formerly, nineteen did and sixteen did not.

The publishing company Open Road has just launched Factory Books, a collection of

Faber has announced that it is ending its partnership with Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Mitzi Angel, Faber’s publisher since 2008, will remain with FSG, as will many Faber titles, such as Ben Lerner’s 10:04 and David Bellos's A Fish in Your Ear.

Atticus Lish—whose debut novel, Preparation for the Next Life, was released last year by Tyrant books—has won the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize.

The New York Times is in search of a finance editor for its T Brand Studio. According to the job listing, “T Brand Studio is a fast-growing team of energetic writers, content strategists, videographers,

Since the Charlie Hebdo attack, Voltaire’s Treatise on Tolerance (1763) is selling out in Paris. Almost half as many copies have been sold over the last three weeks as have sold over the last twelve years.

“People read without sharing, but just as often, perhaps, they share without reading.” At the Atlantic, Derek Thompson uses Twitter analytics to investigate how likely it is that tweets bring traffic to websites, and discovers that click-through rates—not to mention rates of people who actually read stories—are very, very low. Overall, in fact, it seems that Twitter is sending less than 2

Former US poet laureate Philip Levine, the winner of a Pulitzer prize and two National Book Awards, died on Saturday at age 87. Levine, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrants, was born in Detroit, and many of his poems were inspired by the city’s auto factories and working-class families.

On Friday, Dan Lyons announced that he will be leaving his post as the editor of Gawker media’s Valley Wag, though he claims he may still contribute to the site. Lyon cites his new book deal as one reason that he’s leaving the position: He just sold Disrupted, “a memoir of my ridiculous attempt to reinvent

Tonight at 6 p.m. Bookforum hosts its annual Valentine's Day reading at the New Museum. Clancy Martin, Laura Kipnis, Lynne Tillman, Paul Beatty, and Joseph O'Neill will read selections on the theme of "Foreign Affairs." Should be sexy! The event is free, but please RSVP to foreignaffairs@bookforum.com to get on the list.

Lester Holt has temporarily replaced Brian Williams, as NBC discusses whether to allow Williams to return; Holt may continue on in Williams’s place.

In the New York Review of Books, Francine Prose suggests that the controversy surrounding the historical inaccuracy of films

Jon Stewart announced Tuesday night that he’ll be leaving the Daily Show. For our editor Chris Lehmann, writing at Al Jazeera, Stewart was at his best skewering the Bush administration; since then the show has felt “increasingly rudderless.” (Lehmann may not be sad to see Stewart go, but book publicists are devastated. Stewart sells a lot of books.) Meanwhile, NBC suspended Brian Williams without pay. Should the Williams and Stewart switch jobs?

Richard Price intended his new novel to be slick and commercial and take him no more than four months to write. It took him four years. He was going

Five years ago, Peter Thiel gave twenty-four young people (twenty-two men and two women—never mind Title IX) a hundred thousand dollars each to leave college. The Chronicle of Higher Education checks in with nine of them |http://chronicle.com/article/The-Rich-Mans-Dropout-Club/151703/#|to see what the former students did with the funding|. More than a few went back to college, but with an altered perspective on its value. One of the women returned to Princeton and left again just one credit shy of her degree. "The only thing I haven’t done is fulfill the arbitrary requirements," she says. The

The New York Times looks into allegations that Harper Lee was pressured into publishing Go Set A Watchman, the “parent” novel, written in the mid-1950s, of To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee’s lawyer, Tonja Carter, has persistently denied the rumors. Her story is corroborated by some, including a friend of Lee’s who visited her last summer. “Tonja has the full confidence of Nelle,” the friend told the Times. “And I can say with confidence that Tonja would not do anything that Nelle would not want her to do.” Isn’t it fishy, though, that all communications of Lee’s feelings about the book come through

Joe Klein has asked us to accept Brian Williams’s apology, saying that pundits demanding his dismissal are “self-righteous and gagging.” Klein comes at the topic from a unique perspective, having been criticized for his early denials that he was the anonymous author behind the bestselling campaign roman-a-clef Primary Colors.

The Maryland Court of Special Appeals has agreed to reopen the appeal of Adnan Syed, whose murder conviction was the subject of the hit podcast Serial. Last week, Sarah Koenig discussed podcasts at a New School roundtable moderated by the New York Times’s David Carr. (

The Times has a story on the death of Google Glass, the wearable-computing flop that at least gave us this amusing New Yorker feature by Gary Shteyngart, in which Shteyngart deploys the Glass’s full capabilities: causing motion sickness, taking many photos and videos, and translating the word hamburger into Korean.

Cory Doctorow on David Graeber’s new book, The Utopia of Rules: “bureaucracies are supposed to be meritocracies where people are hired and promoted based on talent, not because of birth or personal connections. But we all know that's bullshit—and we also all know that the only way

People have been raising questions about the conditions under which Harper Lee agreed to have her second book published. Did she really agree? (She’s historically said she opposed publishing a second book.) Is she being exploited by her lawyer and others who want to profit from what will undoubtedly be the novel’s wildly successful sales figures? Mallory Ortberg thinks this might be the case. At New York, Boris Kachka reviews Lee’s history, particularly her decline in recent years, and quotes a letter that her sister Alice Lee wrote to a biographer about the Lees’ lawyer, Tonja: “I learned that