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Thursday, March 11, 2004
NEW YORK OBSERVER NAMES
MEDIA CRITIC. Washington City Paper senior editor Tom
Scocca has been picked by the New
York Observer to
replace media critic Sridhar Pappu, who recently left to become a
staff writer at Sports Illustrated. Scocca, who was a feature
writer at the Boston Phoenix in the mid 1990s, is the
co-creator of "Funny
Paper," an arch take on the
world of comics.
Scocca e-mails Media Log: "I'd
better start writing the column before I start talking about
it." He plans to move to New
York at some point after he wraps up his duties at the City Paper. He
can be reached at tjscocca@mindspring.com.
Oddly enough, Pappu is a former
City Paper intern. For that matter, Slate media critic
Jack Shafer and New York Times media reporter David Carr are
City Paper alumni; City Paper founder Russ Smith writes
media criticism for the New York Press (which he founded and
has since sold) and, occasionally, the Wall Street Journal.
Another former City Paper intern, Josh Levin, writes the
magazines column for Slate.
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