Famed NYTimes journo Judith Miller is signing up with Fox News, an organization devoted to the destruction of her former employer. Miller, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist left the Times in disgrace. Her downfall came as a result of her reporting on Iraq's WMD...
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Microblogging (like Twitter, communication in 140 characters or less,) ambient awareness, weak and strong social ties all come up this piece from NYTimes magazine by Clive Thompson. I liked this article because it...
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An interesting analysis from Barry L. Ritholtz on the opportunities open to news organizations like the NYTimes now that Murdoch is shaking up the WSJ. "Murdoch's changes are both ambitious and perplexing: He...
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"nytimes.com must be reinvented. It must become a total Web 2.0 news and social media site. It must transform its users into participants and attract many more of them. Nytimes.com should embrace social media with more goodies than USA Today's tepid experiment"
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"We missed this on Friday: Observer Media Group, owner of the weekly New York Observer, has bough out political news and community site PoliticsNJ. Observer owner and publisher Jared Kushner bought the site a month ago and it relaunched last week. Last Monday he hired a new...
"Ten major US corporations, including industry giants General Electric, DuPont and Alcoa, have joined forces with leading environmental groups to call for a slash in carbon-dioxide emissions of 10-to-30 per cent over the next 15 years."
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As The Guardian reports today:"Two years ago most Britons didn't have broadband and Web 2.0 was barely a twinkle in a developer's eye. Things have changed - as our cream of the crop for 2006 shows "This year the...
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"NYTimes.com has launched a limited beta of a personalized news site called MyTimes.com (screenshots via PaidContent), an RSS play that looks more like MyYahoo than it does the recent Newsgator partnerships with MyUSAToday and MyNewsweek. Unlike in those services, it does...
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"The Mumbai bombings were the top story on Hannity & Colmes last night (7/11/06) but for Sean Hannity, the incidents were just another excuse to attack the New York Times."
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"HEELLLPPP!! *&!! — The NYT is reporting that Joe Biden will bring his bleached teeth and hair transplants to Connecticut to campaign for Holy Joe (and that's the last I want to hear about "outside interference" from Camp Lieberman). He'll be...
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"The New York Times is reporting that Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton is putting two of his lowest performing blogs on the block, reorganizing others and laying off several people. Sploid and Screenhead are being sold. Editors at..."
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"In the New York Times article on censure today, Stuart Rothenberg is referred to as a nonpartisan political analyst. That is inaccurate. His political leanings are quite clear. Take this column on national security: Pardon me if I had a feeling of[...]"
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Interviews with nearly a dozen Times staffers, all of whom refused to be identified because they did not want to openly challenge their bosses, provided a mixed picture. Some said the newsroom is more demoralized now than during the 2003 debacle over Jayson Blair's serial...
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