By Peter Sterne 6/12 10:24am

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 The Washington Post is now selling space in their op-ed section in the form of “Sponsored Views,” which allow organizations and corporations to pay to post comments (capped at 600 characters) in response to op-eds and editorials. The Post “reserves the right to require substantiation for any factual assertions within a Sponsored View.” So the Post might fact-check the assertions that companies are paying the Post to publish without going through the newsroom or opinion editors. (Washington Post/Poynter) Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 2/14/12 1:32pm

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Arianne Cohen knows 1500 people's weird sexual secrets. That they told her. (Image courtesy the author)

Sex Diary Analyst Arianne Cohen Tells Us the Difference Between American, Italian and British Lovers

In The Observer’s all-day mission to provide solace to the Valentine-less, we give you this: The bitter and the undersexed can now binge on the voyeuristic delights (or is it the anthropological horrors?) of New York magazine’s weekly online Sex Diaries. The concept has been expanded beyond the five boroughs in a book, The Sex Diaries Project,  published by John Wiley & Sons. With the contextualizing essays by former New York sex diaries editor Arianne Cohen, we might even figure out how we got to this sad state in the first place–or why it’s not so bad after all. Read More