Donny Deutsch

As we reported recently, CNBC is on the verge of making significant cuts.

And today, Broadcasting & Cable reports that the cable business news network will soon be losing one prominent staffer: Josh Howard, the vice president of the network's long form unit.

From the article:

Howard's contract expires next week and with cuts looming at CNBC, he declined to seek a new one.

His departure comes as the long form unit celebrates its third Emmy - and the third in CNBC's 19-year history - awarded Tuesday at the 6th annual business and financial news Emmys.

Howard came to CNBC three years ago after a lengthy career at CBS News came to an abrupt end over the 60 Minutes II report about President Bush's Vietnam era service in the Texas Air National Guard.

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Mr. Deutsch is CNBC’s first line of defense against Fox Channel's plan to target Main Street over Wall Street.  read more »

If, like us, the only paper you've had a look at over the weekend is the Bangor Daily News, (our favorite vacation paper!) The Real Estate is happy to oblige you here with a round-up of the weekend's real-estate coverage. The Times has already pumped up the South Bronx as the new real estate hot-spot. (Write in if you know any Times editors who live there!) This week they bring unlikely word of a housing boom in ... East New York! We learn about a couple who ignored pleas to leave the neighborhood, and instead watched their house rise in price from $62,000 in 1987 to a current appraisal of $350,000. That's significant, since the Times is fond of reporting that you can't find a decent apartment in this town for under $400,000. The City Section's Coping column (incidentally, we've always wondered: Coping? I'd rather read something called Kvetching) takes up a defense of Murray Hell, as we dubbed the neighborhood in a recent article by Lizzy Ratner (registration required!), and its beer-swilling, heel-clicking post-Ann Arbor Fraternity Row set, under the headline "Dull is Beautiful." We wonder whether the City Section doesn't have lots of reasons to endorse that sentiment.

In the Post, Braden Keil finds recent bachelor Matt Lauer and ad-guy Donny Deutsch both renting at Trump Park Avenue (several floors apart).  read more »

New York Magazine looks at how rising prices have created a most unwelcome trend: too many brokers! Also, more Matt Lauer real-estate gossip. Is there a reconciliation in the works? - Michael Calderone

Lightning struck the New York magazine sweepstakes Dec.  read more »

Lightning struck the New York magazine sweepstakes Dec.  read more »