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Hot and Heavy (New York) Times: Singer Maggie Rogers performs at the Resonator Awards on January 27, 2026, in L.A. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)
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In tonight’s edition, a confession from singer Maggie Rogers before a full house at Madison Square Garden could land one New York Times journalist in hot water. Rogers says a hot date got steamier during a private tour of the Times HQ, but who was the journo in question?
Also, speaking of the New York Times, the stars of their hit podcast “Hard Fork,” Casey Newton and Kevin Roose, have quit to start their own thing. We have an update on the future of “Hard Fork” and the broader implications for the Gray Lady’s new Shows department.
Plus, what is behind Puck’s Dylan Byers and his recent “lucky” spree?
Finally, we have a bumper edition of Journo (and Comms) Jobs. Tonight we have opportunities at: Semafor, NYT, WaPo, Versant, Dow Jones, Daily Beast, Fox, The Atlantic, CNN, NBC, and Business Insider.
Mentioned tonight: Bari Weiss, Kara Swisher, Nick Bilton, Cesar Conde, Jeff Bezos, Pui-Wing Tam, Sam Dolnick, Byron Allen, Robert Allbritton, Dovid Efune, Kevin Roose, Casey Newton, Vere Harmsworth, Lord Rothermere, Satya Nadella, Cynthia Nixon, Nick Adams, Aidan McLaughlin, Dawn Chmielewski, Marc Adelman, Matthew Weiner, Dominic Ponsford, Angelique Chrisafis, Bernard Arnault, Silk White, Michael Savage, Sarah Bahr, Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan, Steven Nelson, Edmund Lee, and more.
The Gray Lady Blushes
(Exclusive.) On Tuesday night at Rosalia’s Madison Square Garden show, singer Maggie Rogers told the crowd about a journalist that her friend set her up with.
“They're single, they're handsome, and they work for the New York Times," Rogers recounted her friend telling her.
Rogers told the crowd that the journalist wooed her with a spin around the city in his vintage car. “So we're driving around Manhattan, and we're talking, and I'm kind of falling in love a little bit…So suddenly he says, "Oh my god, we're actually really close to the office. Can I take you to The New York Times?"
“I mean, it's such a move. It's one in the morning, like an empty New York Times,” Rogers continued, setting the scene. “So we go in, and he gives me a full, empty tour of the building. We make out in the conference room, and it's like a really good time.”
The night ends with more canoodling before Rogers recalls the date to friends the following day. "I found someone."... They say, "What's his name?" And I tell them, and my friend goes, "Oh my god, that's my friend's boyfriend."
So who is this lothario? Four people familiar with the matter tell us the man is …
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Fork In The Road
(Exclusive.) Last Wednesday in San Francisco, a sold-out crowd packed into the Blue Shield of California Theater to watch tech journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton record their hit podcast “Hard Fork” live.
The pair had attracted several big-name guests to the event, including Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft.
“Hard Fork” has become a fixture at The New York Times over the last four years, and Roose …
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Puck Outta Luck
What The Puck: Breaker has a chinwag with Puck’s Dylan Byers at Tammy Haddad’s garden brunch during WHC weekend 2026. (Credit: amateur snapper Jeremy Barr)
Puck’s “peerless” media reporter Dylan Byers has been in somewhat of a lucky mood in recent weeks.
In no fewer than half a dozen columns since May, Byers has …
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