“The tech blogs were abuzz this week with sightings of Steve Jobs in Manhattan — in the newsroom of the New York Times, on the third floor of the News Corp. tower and in an Asian fusion restaurant wearing, according to New York magazine, ‘a very funny hat — a big top hat kind of thing’ and ordering food, Hollywood mogul style, off-menu,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt reports for Fortune.
Elmer-DeWitt reports, “On Friday morning he showed up at the Time & Life Building to demonstate his new tablet computer to Time Inc. CEO Ann Moore and a roomful of magazine editors.”
“Jobs is not the first Apple executive to pitch the iPad on Publisher’s Row — indeed, leaks from loose-lipped media tycoons helped build buzz for the device in the weeks before its unveiling,” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “But the fact that Jobs himself flew to New York a week later — and that the top executives of America’s leading national newspapers and magazines turned out to meet him — may be taken as a sign of how badly both sides need each other.”
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