Brian Baker, the president of Joe Ricketts’s conservative super PAC, the Ending Spending Action Fund, just released a statement on behalf of Mr. Ricketts renouncing “The Ricketts Plan,” a proposal to revive the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright controversy for President Obama’s re-election campaign. Read More
Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of New York media darling DNAinfo, commissioned plans for a $10 M. media campaign against President Obama’s re-election, according to a report in The New York Times. Read More
Around this time last year, Murray Weiss, the New York Post investigative reporter who turned the governor of New York into the Socks-On John, announced he was leaving the tabloid for an online reporting start-up called DNAinfo.
A collective “Where?” shot across the Internet.
But over the past 12 months the Manhattan-centered local news site Read More
On the morning of Monday, May 17, a Web site called DNAinfo.com published a story about a rooster named Napoleon Bonaparte and two hens, named Lucy and Apple. The story was a classic nugget of neighborhood reporting: a concise anecdote about how officials had made life better for an abandoned bird, which spoke Read More
