How a YouTube Video Got an Emmy

In 1969, when he was 14 years old, Jerry Levitan sauntered past a row of reporters lined outside John Lennon’s Toronto hotel room, knocked on the door, and convinced his favorite Beatle to give him a short interview. Mr. Lennon was about to swaddle himself in bedsheets and conduct his Montreal Bed-In for Peace with Read More

The Blonde Ambition of Blip.tv

In the early autumn of 2005, Dina Kaplan was freelancing as a spot reporter for WNBC 4 New York, “covering fires and murders and bodies found in dumpsters and things like that,” she told The Observer on a recent humid morning in Soho. But on Wednesday nights, the petite strawberry blonde was routinely having dinner Read More

New York Pols Who Make Tweets

I never thought cutting my hair was a sign of the implosion of the American economy, until I read about it on Twitter.
“benpolitico: times tough: @azipaybarah cutting own hair.”
The item is short, true, and was written a few seconds after the words left my mouth. I was sitting at my desk Read More