It’s all about Facebook.
That was the general consensus of the noisy and mildly-lubricated crowd that had gathered last night in the upstairs balcony of Stitch, an after-work bar in the Garment District.
It was the afterparty for the Social Gaming Summit, a conference that lured developers and entrepreneurs from as far as Montreal, Read More
Mediabistro today launched a blog, with editors and everything, that focuses entirely on news and events related to Twitter. It’s called All Twitter and, naturally, it has a Twitter account.
What stories, then, will All Twitter be writing and then linking to on its Twitter? Today there’s advice on how Read More
FishbowlDC editor Betsy Rothstein called out the Washington Post on Monday with a blog post that accused the paper of taking two stories from other outlets without attribution — Politico’s story about Keith Olbermann’s campaign contributions and FishbowlDC’s scoop about the ouster of TBD.com editor Jim Brady.
WaPo reporter David Montgomery’s article Read More
Mediabistro’s Laurel Touby, who has been on a sabbatical of sorts, traveling with her husband, former Businessweek columnist Jon Fine, is back in the office.
Ms. Touby made $23 million from her sale of the site in 2007. She sent the following email, announcing that she will be working two days a week, to Read More
After selling her Web site mediabistro.com for $23 million, Laurel Touby told The Times that she had somewhere between $9 million to $11 million in her bank account after taxes. “I had all kinds of illusions about how far the money would go and what I would enjoy, but they’re not true,” The Read More
You never know when you’re gonna bumble into the next, new internet thing—2.0. Today, Mediabistro’s FishbowlNY blogger Noah Davis offered a post about an article by Larry Platt in the current GQ that restored his faith in journalism and blogging about the same.
Writes Mr. Davis:
Sometimes you read an article that’s so Read More
This was a tough weekend for a certain segment within the media community, but together, they got through it.
It started out with excitement on Friday: A journalistic fact-finding mission to Las Vegas. But even before the plane took off, some key members of the expedition almost didn’t make it. Thankfully, they Read More
If you’re finding your RSS feed a little thin today, that may be because your favorite media and lifestyle bloggers are away on an important reporting assignment. In Las Vegas. Paid for by the nice folks at Thrillist.
Take for example Mediabistro’s FishbowlNY: Co-editor Glynnis MacNicol posted that half their editorial team (we’re Read More
Russ Stanton got his job as chief editor of the L.A. Times because he was the golden child of the internet, a guy who could bring the paper into the future. And with Mediabistro, he talks about that future and how no newspaper will be involved at all!
For us, I think that Read More
Emily Gould’s New York Times Magazine cover story hasn’t even landed with a thud on front porches and newsstands yet, but it’s already garnering a ton of criticism online.
Some of the critical outlets weren’t surprising.
Like Gawker, for example, since Ms. Gould’s article is in many ways a rebuke of the Read More
