Last weekend New York Times public editor Clark Hoyt gave his column over to Jill Abramson to talk about blogs. This weekend he will say goodbye.
It’s been a wild ride for Mr. Hoyt!
“I don’t have any regrets about it. It has been fascinating and endlessly interesting,” Mr. Hoyt told Media Matters Read More
“Asa Aarons has dedicated his career to helping people solve the problems of everyday life,” says the New York 1 consumer reporter’s bio.
Trevor Smith, Mr. Aarons’ 18-year-old son, has a similar calling.
Mr. Smith has been arrested for producing and selling fake out-of-state driver’s licenses to other minors, according to the Post. Read More
This morning Newsday publisher Terry Jimenez emailed his staff about the paper’s new television advertisements, which will be airing across Long Island.
“Starting today, all of us (and all of Long Island) will be seeing new TV commercials promoting Newsday across Cablevision’s channels,” he wrote. “I’m excited about this because these commercials are focused on Read More
Brian Hogan–the 21-year-old who found an iPhone prototype and sold it to Gizmodo–regrets his actions, reports Wired. Yes, he did not try very hard to find the phone’s owner, and yes, he accepted money for it: but these are mistakes that any one of us might make.
Also, Hogan is an OK guy: Read More
After California cops raided the home of Gizmodo blogger Jason Chen, Bloggasm’s Simon Owens talked to some fellow web-savvy journalists about Chen’s position, and the validity of Gawker’s shield-law defense. Here’s what they had to say.
Joan Walsh, Salon:
“The fact that Gizmodo paid for the phone muddies the water a Read More
Picasso’s The Actor, which a clumsy Met-goer tore back in January, has been repaired and is back on display at the Museum.
Its three months of convalescence involved whimsical remedies such as rabbit-skin glue and silk sandbags. Now it is healed, but for the emotional scars.
“This was a traumatic event in the Read More
