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The Daily Beast  |  April 29, 2009  |  Categories: fashion, business, technology, women
Shopping Showdown at High Noon

imageThe Gilt Groupe, an online designer discount site with daily sales at noon, has a million members and caused an epic shopping craze - even in a recession. Why are women so obsessed?  A three-day front page feature.

The Big Money  |  April 19, 2009  |  Categories: culture, media, business, technology
The Media’s Lost Generation

imageThe media business has always been a deeply competitive bastion of ambition.  Yet today’s journalists—including both those sidelined by layoffs and those still clinging desperately their workplace desks—have been left to wonder whether ambition makes sense anymore.  How do you get ahead in an industry that can’t see its own future? A front page feature.

The Big Money  |  November 13, 2008  |  Categories: media, business, technology
Glossed Over: Why Can’t Magazines Get the Web?

imageWhat happens when magazines are no longer profitable, and publications companies haven’t built a bridge to a new medium? You get to where the music industry is: billion-dollar companies trying to figure out a model in a free fall. A front page feature. (Reprised and updated on January 26, 2009, under the title “Is CondeNet Dead?”)

The Huffington Post  |  August 24, 2008  |  Categories: culture, fashion, technology
7 Stylish Solutions for Life’s Most Hair-Raising Moments

imageHow to conquer the following:

* Fat Days
* Bad-Hair Days
* Airport-Counter traumas

... and many other daily catastrophies.

The Huffington Post  |  November 8, 2007  |  Categories: culture, media, technology
Facebook: You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide

imageAs people from completely different chapters of my life crowd onto my Facebook friends list, it’s starting to feel like, well ... a huge wedding guest list. And everyone knows that a wedding can be one of the most socially awkward experiences on the planet.

ABC News Nightline  |  August 28, 2003  |  Categories: business, politics, technology
Babies for Sale

imageSurrogacy cases and advancing biotechnology are wreaking havoc on America’s legal system. This is an article detailing landmark fertility cases grappling with the legality and morality of enforcing contracts for the sale of human babies.