Monday, December 21, 2009

As an aside...

...First we lost the New York Post's inestimable celebrity real estate writer Braden Keil who died in early 2009 after a long battle with skin cancer and who was replaced by his wife Jennifer. Then we lost the mighty fine Max Abelson at the New York Observer who moved on to greener pastures at the pink paper and who was replaced by the lovely Chloe Malle. And now we read that (celebrity) real estate writer Josh Barbanel who penned the Big Deals column and other stories for the New York Times was laid off.

Laid off. Another sign of the economic times and yet another sign of the rather fragile state of newspapers and print media in general. We'll miss Mister Barbanel's insight into the glittery world of New York City real estate and will cross our fingers and toes he lands on his feet, soon and solidly.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Woo, nobody wants that kind of "change".

Anonymous said...

Look on the bright side; less paper more bloggers(eco friendly, indeed!)

Anonymous said...

that's bad news. this past sunday's column must have been his last.

unfortunately, jennifer keil has not proved to be the equal of her husband reporter-wise.

hello gorgeous said...

Times is bad, miss.

Anonymous said...

Well,if they would just start with the redistribution of wealth, things can get moving again.But as you can see these rich "real estate tycoons" just dont want to.

Anonymous said...

How's that Hope & Change working for you libs?

Anonymous said...

Is Chloe Malle, Candice Bergen and Louis Malle's daughter?

Anonymous said...

Is Max boning Jennifer? Just asking....