By Foster Kamer 11:22am

Media

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Morning Feed: Mediaite’s New Editor, The Daily’s Webby Campaign, ProPublica Swag

Mediaite has a new editor, but he isn’t the Fox Mole. The Daily wants your votes, but they already have their fathers’ blessings. T-Shirts are the new Tote-Bags, silenced commenters are the new site-running commenters, more fantastic-if-true potentially embarrassing stories about well-regarded Timesmen, “restructurings” as the hot new media euphemism, and something about Zooey Deschanel. These are your Thursday morning media items: Read More

By Drew Grant 1/02/12 4:57pm

Mediaite

Managing Editor Colby Hall Leaves Mediaite on a Non-Masturbatory Note

Disclaimer: Sorry, I used to write for Mediaite.

Colby Hall– the managing editor of Dan Abrams’ (Dan Abrams!) media site that is so un-navel-gazey that it put “Media” in its name and created a baffling metric ranking for “powerful” people in New York to judge their own placement in the incestuous workplace strata– is leaving for greener pastures at Clear Channel. But before he goes, he wants you to know one thing about Mediaite’s success. Well, actually there’s several things he wants you to know, and he’s put them all in a post titled “Lessons From Nearly Three Years In the Belly Of the Mediaite Beast.“ Read More