120: Hot Gossip, Hard-Nosed Reporting, and the Tabloid That Changed America, with Susan Mulcahy & Frank Digiacomo
October 8, 2024
EPISODE NOTES
Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo are former reporters for The New York Post and co-authors of Paper of Wreckage: The Rogues, Renegades, Wiseguys, Wankers, and Relentless Reporters Who Redefined American Media. Susan worked on Page Six from 1978 to 1985, including three years as editor. She has also written for The New Yorker and The New York Times. Frank worked as a Page Six freelancer in the late 1980s and was its editor from 1991 to 1993. He is currently an executive editor at Billboard.
The Gossip Behind the Gossip, by Frank DiGiacomo for Vanity Fair
Confessions of a Trump Tabloid Scribe, by Susan Mulcahy for Politico
A Tabloid Alum Blasts News to the New York Post Nation, by Susan Mulcahy for The New Yorker
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