<![CDATA[Valleywag: Penelope Trunk]]> http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/valleywag.com.png <![CDATA[Valleywag: Penelope Trunk]]> http://valleywag.com/tag/penelope trunk http://valleywag.com/tag/penelope trunk <![CDATA[ Blogger-hating flack tangles with Penelope Trunk ]]> Mike ChericoMy inbox is full of people asking who Mike Cherico is. The short version: He's a "dudeblogger" who was fired from Glamour magazine for bragging about womanizing. (Wasn't that what he was hired to do?) But what really entertains me is what happened after self-important PR guy Scott Swords spammed every blogger on the planet with an unsolicited press release decrying Cherico's evil ways. One of the recipients: Former Yahoo columnist Penelope Trunk, who cut the barely literate Swords to ribbons. The release, and Trunk's email exchange, after the jump.

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]]> Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:00:55 PDT Owen Thomas http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=369881&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[ Yahoo cans female finance columnist, tells her to try "lifestyles" ]]> PenelopeTrunk.jpgYahoo career-advice columnist Penelope Trunk took on a familiar topic today: "How to deal with getting fired (from Yahoo.)" Her boss, she said, told her the column didn't pull in a high enough CPM — the rate advertisers pay. Stock talk draws pricier ads than job advice. So far, all business. But then came the gratuitous insult: When Trunk asked if there were any other opportunities at Yahoo for her, the Yahoos recommended she try Lifestyles, a Yahoo division for food, horoscopes, and the like.

The scene was all too familiar for Trunk. When Trunk's column for Business 2.0 was canceled, her editor there suggested that Trunk, then pregnant with her first child, try writing for Working Mother instead.

]]> Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:53:32 PST Nicholas Carlson http://valleywag.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=338109&view=rss&microfeed=true