By Foster Kamer 4/20/12 2:57pm

QUESTIONS THAT ARE NOT RHETORICAL

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Has The Fox Mole Really Been Blackballed from Media Jobs?

Just a few days after Gawker introduced their recent and short-lived foray into corporate espionage-cum-pranksterism in the form of The Fox News Mole, one Joe Muto found himself on CNN, speaking with Howard Kurtz on Reliable Sources about the week he’d just had. In that interview, he explained that he was “completely blackballed within the cable news industry after working at FOX News,” which is to say nothing of how his job prospects might be now (“it’s pretty safe to say my career in cable news is over”). Is it, though? Read More

By Foster Kamer 4/12/12 3:20pm

THE NEW MEDIA ECONOMY

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Cafe au Payday: Buzzfeed Editor Spends $1100 a Year on Lattes

Buzzfeed: It’s all the buzz! They have the L. Ron Hubbard of meme-making, Jonah Peretti, at the helm. With him are high-profile poaches from Politico, the Village Voice, Business Insider, Gawker Media and more! And with them are $15.5M shekels from a recent cash infusion to turn every scrap of knowledge and abstraction and news available to the human race into some kind of .GIF image to construct the final link between the complexities of transliterated grunts into hieroglyphs.

So, what are Buzzfeed’s newly minted hundred-thousandaires doing with all that cash? Making it rain…lattes. Read More

By Drew Grant 4/02/12 4:26pm

Branding

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Game of Thrones Weirdest Marketing Tie-In Yet: Free Tattoos from NY INK!

Last night when Don Draper (almost) met the Rolling Stones on Mad Men, we couldn’t help but be reminded of those old crossover cartoons…like The Flintstones meet The Jetsons, or when the Harlem Globetrotters helped out Scooby Doo. Of course Don Draper doesn’t like Mick Jagger and his sexy ways, and is worried about the dope-smoking children who worship the band. (Don Draper, you are old.) Still, he went to the concert because he needed the Stones to sign on for a commercial with Heinz. Read More

By Foster Kamer 2/29/12 6:54pm

MEMES OF MEMES

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Newest Single-Serving Tumblr: ‘Has Buzzfeed Hired Anyone New Today?’

Jonah Peretti’s meme-spewing startup recently launched an original content initiative, which is already successful if not for the way in which they can simply memes by hiring people. With sharpened poaching-spears in hand, Peretti has taken from Politico (with Subject #1: Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith), Gawker, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, New York, and surely a bunch of others that are difficult to keep track of. Until now! Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 2/27/12 11:37am

Changes

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Michael Hastings to BuzzFeed

Michael Hastings will cover President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign for post-meme social news site BuzzFeed, the company announced today.

“Social publishing is the future of journalism, or at least huge part of its future. By joining BuzzFeed, I’ll be at the front and center of that world,” Mr. Hastings said in the announcement. “It will give me the chance to be part of a media organization that’s breaking new journalistic ground, finding innovative and fresh ways to report the story.” Read More

By Drew Grant 2/13/12 1:46pm

Jeremy Lin

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Jeremy Lin’s Junior High School Memorabilia Now for Sale on Ebay

With “Linmania” sweeping Knicks fans (and Chris Hayes) off their feet, it makes sense that everyone who has come in contact with the Hahvad-educated point guard is currently trying to monetize the situation. JP Moore from Buzzfeed was the first to find these yearbooks from Jeremy Lin‘s middle school on Ebay, but we won’t be putting down $4,800 to “Buy It Now” until we get the signature on one of these babies authenticated. Read More