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By Foster Kamer 8/13/12 3:14pm

No, Chef: Marcus Samuelsson Still Isn’t Over Eddie Huang’s Red Rooster Piece

Back in June, the New York Observer published a piece by Manhattan restaurateur, blogger and soon-to-be-book-author Eddie Huang about Red Rooster chef Marcus Samuelsson, tied to the release of Samuelsson’s memoir, Yes, Chef. In it, Huang took a look at the cultural and culinary implications of Red Rooster, one of Harlem’s most critically hyped (and priciest) dining destinations.

Samuelsson did not take kindly to the piece then. And over a month and a half later, he’s still talking about it. Read More

By Anna Sanders 11/15/11 10:33am

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Mainstream News Organizations Aren't Very Good At Using Twitter, Study Finds

The journalism community prides itself on its social media use, but a study released yesterday reveals that mainstream news organizations are using Twitter wrong, i.e. to advance their own material as opposed to engaging with readers and followers.

Researchers from The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and The George Washington University’s Read More

By Nate Freeman 12/14/10 11:38pm

Media Wars

Washington Post Admits New York’s Overwhelming Culinary Superiority

There’s not a single person in New York who would defend food in Washington, D.C. — or any city, for that matter — against food in our town. But this collection of disses that The New York Times has levied at D.C.’s glaring inferiority in all epicurean categories may indicate that the paper of record Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/17/10 8:18pm

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Shocking Washington Post Story Reveals That Journalistic Ethics ‘Amuse’ Nick Denton

The Washington Post was really asking for it when, for a straight-faced story about paying sources for information, they talked to Gawker media overlord Nick Denton. The conversation consisted of “an exchange of electronic messages.”

“I’m content for the old journalists not to pay for information. It keeps the price down,” Denton electronically Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/05/10 5:26pm

Media Marketplace

The Washington Post, Free of Newsweek, Sees Rise in Revenues

Good news from D.C.: The Washington Post Co. is reporting that with its struggling Newsweek property gone, the paper’s publishing revenues were up five percent this quarter. What’s more, online profits skyrocketed a whole 21 percent.

The company, which owns both The Washington Post and Slate Group, was sinking millions keeping Newsweek afloat Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/14/10 7:42pm

Restoring Sanity

News Outlets Follow NPR’s Lead: No Staffers at Stewart and Colbert Rallies

After a memo banning staffers from attending rallies — specifically the two high-profile ones to be orchestrated by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert later this month — made its way around the internet and collected backlash in its swath, NPR is trying to get other news outlets to join its side of Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/11/10 5:15pm

Censorship

Washington Post Ombudsman Slams Paper for Pulling Comic

Last Sunday, the editors of The Washington Post decided to deprive the funny pages of the weekly comic Non Sequitur. The strip, known for its typically off-beat humor, had waded into territory the higher-ups felt might be offensive. The cartoon consisted of a full-color cel depicting an innocuous Sunday afternoon in a park, Read More

By Zeke Turner 10/05/10 6:49pm

Moves

Howard Kurtz On Moving to The Daily Beast: ‘I Liked A Lot of What Tina Had to Say’

Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown announced earlier this afternoon that she hired The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz to take over as her website’s Washington Bureau chief.

“It was a hard decision for me to make because newsprint is in my veins and I have worked here for almost three decades,” Mr. Kurtz told Read More

By Zeke Turner 10/05/10 5:27pm

Moves

Howard Kurtz Joining ‘The Daily Beast’ as Washington Bureau Chief

Daily Beast editor-in-chief Tina Brown announced this afternoon that Howard Kurtz, The Washington Post‘s media critic and an investigative reporter, will be taking over as the site’s Washington Bureau chief. “Howie knows that today the interaction of media and politics is the story,” Ms. Brown wrote in the announcement. “He combines integrity and Read More

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No, Chef: Marcus Samuelsson Still Isn’t Over Eddie Huang’s Red Rooster Piece

Mainstream News Organizations Aren't Very Good At Using Twitter, Study Finds

Washington Post Admits New York’s Overwhelming Culinary Superiority

Shocking Washington Post Story Reveals That Journalistic Ethics ‘Amuse’ Nick Denton

The Washington Post, Free of Newsweek, Sees Rise in Revenues

News Outlets Follow NPR’s Lead: No Staffers at Stewart and Colbert Rallies

Washington Post Ombudsman Slams Paper for Pulling Comic

Howard Kurtz On Moving to The Daily Beast: ‘I Liked A Lot of What Tina Had to Say’

Howard Kurtz Joining ‘The Daily Beast’ as Washington Bureau Chief

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