On Thursday morning, Daniel Ellsberg, government whistle-blower emeritus of Pentagon Papers fame, sat on a stage in midtown Manhattan and talked via Skype to Julian Paul Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was calling in from Australia.
It was the first morning of the annual Personal Democracy Forum Read More
Today, Janice Min announced that Kim Masters will be joining The Hollywood Reporter as editor-at-large.
From the release:
Masters is an award-winning journalist who currently covers the entertainment business for The Daily Beast website. She is also the host of “The Business,” a weekly public radio program about the business of entertainment Read More
Top 10 shows in New York, May 17 to May 23, according to Nielsen Data (total viewers, time shifting/DVR not included)
On Sunday night, ABC finally got us off the island, bringing Lost to an end after six suspenseful, and, at times, maddening seasons.
In the end, the finale was unable to either (a) explain Read More
Today Lewis Dvorkin, the founder of True/Slant, announced that his former employer Forbes is buying his nascent digital news operation, which launched in April 2009.
Forbes was an early investor in the site and will now be bringing True/Slant entirely into the fold.
Here’s Mr. Dvorkin writing about the deal:
The Read More
Union bigs Bruce Raynor and Peter Ward really, really, really don’t like each other.
Their mutual distaste spilled into the pages of The New York Times on Monday morning, with a report that Mr. Raynor’s Sidney Hillman Foundation has decided to relocate its annual journalism award dinner from the Hudson Theater at West Read More
Recently, we wrote about Yahoo’s sporty blog overlord Jamie Mottram, who is currently bulking up the portal’s staff of full-time bloggers.
As part of that effort, sometime later this summer, Yahoo will launch a yet-to-be-named news blog, which has already begun hiring up a team of experienced writers and editors. Today, The Business Read More
Top 10 shows in New York, May 10 to May 16, according to Nielsen Data (total viewers, time shifting/DVR not included)
The upfronts came and went this week with lots of excitement and disappointment, anger and awe. What makes good TV?
We’ll direct you to Michael Hirschorn’s excellent piece on the subject in Read More
Yahoo executives in Sunnyvale, California announced today that the company has purchased Associated Content for an undisclosed amount–which Edmund Lee of Advertising Age reports to be slightly more than $100 million.
Associated Content, which is based in Denver, is one of a handful of newfangled media companies that pay freelance contributors Read More
In this weekend’s New York Times Magazine, former Observer scribe Andrew Rice has a must-read story about the struggles of traditional and new media outlets alike to place a value on pieces of writing in the digital age.
Along the way, Mr. Rice checks in with newfangled media outlets, such as Demand Media, Read More
