The Atlantic has a new special issue coming in November featuring Brave Thinkers–27 people who have “risked their careers, reputations, fortunes and in some cases their lives to advance ideas that upend an established order,” according to the magazine. NBC Universal’s Jeff Zucker, the New York Times‘ Arthur Sulzberger, Barack Obama and Facebook’s Mark Read More
Arianna Huffington is launching a new section called ‘Impact’ on the Huffington Post tomorrow morning. In the new vertical, articles on hot-button issues (gay rights, homelessness, flooding in the Philippines) will include a widget to help readers “plot a course of action,” if they want to donate to a cause, for example, according to Read More
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David Letterman’s scandal on YouTube — Letterman’s love triangle has been playing out online this past week, with old footage of Stephanie Read More
New York magazine’s general manager of digital media Michael Silberman told the Observer last month that New York Media’s online restaurant and menu listings site, MenuPages.com, was likely expand to more cities soon. Today, MenuPages.com announced site launches for London and Paris–their first overseas projects.
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As the Observer reported last month, The Huffington Post has been working on a books vertical. Today, on Oct. 5th, HuffPost Books went live. The new section has the site’s usual amalgam of news, profiles, Q&As, and video–along with users’ reviews and essays from Read More
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The Obama Health Care plan in 4 minutes on WhiteHouse.gov – With this Read More
Twenty newspapers, magazines and nonprofit organizations have become new partners with DocumentCloud, a data archiving project created by journalists and developers at ProPublica and The New York Times. The Atlantic, New Yorker, Mother Jones, MSNBC, WNYC and The Washington Post are among the publications that will submit documents, files and other data into the Read More
Boxee, the free, open-source software that’s set to reinvent the living room by bringing online content to your TV, has just hired Zach Klein, who was part of the founding team that built CollegeHumor, Busted Read More
In July, Upendra Shardanand, chief executive and founder of Daylife, the aggregator that newspapers like, told the Observer that the digital services start-up would soon have new publishing products that would make it even easier for newspapers and magazines to get new, automatically updated content onto their Web sites. Read More
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Vintage Mischa on Hulu — Mischa Barton Read More
