By Kat Stoeffel 3/13 4:37pm

off the record

This talk was covered six ways to Sunday. (http://www.imagethink.net)

Jill Abramson Plays the Tech Neophyte at SXSW

New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson spoke at SXSW in Austin, Tex. yesterday, further proof of her tolerance for meta-media spectacles previously hinted at by appearances at the World Economic Forum in Davos and the Iowa caucuses.

Ms. Abramson, well within her area of expertise, appeared in a conversation about “The Future of the New York Times” with Texas Tribune CEO Evan Smith.

Less than a year after her predecessor, Bill Keller, wondered aloud in the Times magazine if Twitter was making us stupid, Ms. Abramson said that the real question was whether or not to break news on Twitter without a story to link to. Some of her political reporters wanted to “issue an edict” against it, but she’s not ideological about it. She’d seen on the campaign trail that Twitter was a “revolution” for news gathering. Read More

By Drew Grant 3/12 5:23pm

internet

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Via Nytimes.com

Nine Additional Symbols for the Curator’s Code


This weekend’s biggest Internet news involves The Curator’s Code, a new system  “for honoring the creative and intellectual labor of information discovery by making attribution consistent and codified, the celebrated norm.” It involves using neat little symbols to demonstrate “hat tips” and “via” links. This way, everyone on the Internet will be rewarded for their hard work/finding that cat video before anyone else. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 11/03/11 2:11pm

Brass

voice cover

VVM Admits Underage Prostitution Exists, Maintains It's Not Their Fault

This week’s Village Voice cover story is an installment in an ongoing investigative series The Truth Behind Sex Trafficking, which aims to debunk alarmist and overblown statistics about prostitution.

The article (by Kristen Hinman who was a longtime writer for other VVM publications) posits that underage prostitution does exist, tragically, but it’s largely conducted voluntarily and Read More

By Nate Freeman 7/21/11 6:17pm

television

Mr. Stelter, fan of 'Doug.'

Brian Stelter Gets Misty-Eyed Over Old Nickelodeon Shows

In one of the more quotable moments from the documentary Page One, media reporter David Carr refers to his colleague, television reporter Brian Stelter, as “a robot created by The New York Times to destroy me.”

Since then, Mr. Stelter’s been doing damage control on his metallic reputation. He’s escorted CNBC beauty Nicole Lapin down Read More

By Foster Kamer 6/14/11 5:39pm

Media Criticism

Aaron Sorkin Still Hates Bloggers: New York Times Edition

The Social Network screenwriter, West Wing creator, and Making Movies playwright Aaron Sorkin has taken every available chance to assail bloggers that he’s been given. Incredibly, he’s been given many, and he continues to use them to take the opportunity to reiterate his tired anti-blogger rhetoric time and time again. Yet: his latest swipe—backhanded, sniveling, and skeptical of a proven New York Times reporter if only because of said reporter’s background as a blogger—is especially impressive. Read More

By Nate Freeman 5/17/11 11:40pm

Too Big To Fail

Greed is Good — for Décor!

Homeless men idled outside the Four Seasons restaurant as financial titans and celebrities shuttled in from the rain, assisted by burly bouncers. Upstairs, at Monday’s postpremiere party for HBO’s Too Big to Fail—based on the book by New York Times financial reporter wunderkind Andrew Ross Sorkin—sprawling platters of sushi and ceviche awaited consumption.

“Well,” Read More

By admin 11/05/10 3:46pm

Digital Detox

David Carr as Doctor Moreau: Talking to Lizards

David Carr let his freak flag fly on his most recent vacation.

The New York Times columnist spent his six day vacation on Deadman’s Cay — a tiny, remote island in the Bahamas.

“Should I cook you dinner?” he asks a terrified gecko. “I will not cook you for dinner.” Long pause. “You are invited, Read More