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Mr. Johnson Richard Johnson Richard Nadine Johnson Johnson
While Mr. Richard Johnson, the editor of the Page Six gossip column at The New York Post, has never been accused of anything like trying to shake down a billionaire for $220,000, as Mr. Stern is now, the journalistic example that he set for his protégé is one in which writers and the people they write about intersect more than just in print. In two decades of running the page, Mr. Johnson has built personal and quasi-business relationships with those he has written about; some of them have become sources of gossip for the column. Mr. Johnson has been flown first class and put up free of charge in luxury hotels by companies, all while covering events for the column; he is also a regular columnist for a magazine whose publisher shows up repeatedly in Page Six and whose publishing company is often mentioned. Jared Paul Stern has been in New York newspapers for 12 years, most of them working for Richard Johnson, the editor of the Page Six gossip column at The New York Post. In two decades of running the page, Mr. Johnson has built personal and quasi-business relationships with those he has written about; some of them have become sources of gossip for the column. Mr. Johnson has been flown first class and put up free of charge in luxury hotels by companies, all while covering events for the column; he is also a regular columnist for a magazine whose publisher shows up repeatedly in Page Six and whose publishing company is often mentioned. In addition to Page Six, Mr. Johnson writes a column for Gotham, a free magazine and the flagship publication for Niche Media, a company owned by Jason Binn.