Topic: Media

The Koch Brothers' Foray into Media Has Already Been a Success

Associated Press

Billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch are quite entrepreneurial in their attempts to influence public policy in their favor.

By Elspeth Reeve

Sep 22, 2011

Drudge Report Finds Class Warfare with Obama's 'Bling' Irresistible

Michelle Obama's caught wearing diamond jewlery worth $42,000

Comments | 8,489 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 21, 2011

TV's Still the Best Way for Marketers to Burn Ads into Your Brain

Which probably explains why TV ad prices are rising despite declining viewership

Comments | 506 Views

By Ray Gustini

Sep 21, 2011

The Smart Set

Fast Times at the United Nations General Assembly

Plus: Bill Clinton could have been on 'Dancing with the Stars,' but didn't want to practice

Comments | 1,117 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Sep 20, 2011

Murdoch's Advice for Perry Should Be 'Don't Work for Fox News'

Getting paid by the news network has been political poison for the GOP's 2012 field

Comments | 3,880 Views

By John Hudson

Sep 20, 2011

Al Gore and Cenk Uygur Are Perfect for Each Other

The vice president gives Uygur his own 7 p.m. week night show on Current TV

Comments | 1,878 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Sep 16, 2011

New York Times Kept Qaddafi's Son's Bisexuality Quiet

The newspaper censored WikiLeaks memos at the State Department's request

Comments | 2,759 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Sep 16, 2011

The Media's Feeling Sorry for Palin After the Sexy Cocaine Book

Worries that Joe McGinniss might have ruined the fun of Palin gossip

Comments | 23,680 Views

By John Hudson

Sep 15, 2011

How Jon Stewart Is and Isn't Like Fox News

Two new magazine pieces on Stewart compare the comedian with his cable news pincushion

Comments | 6,247 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 13, 2011

Another Senior Member of Slate's Staff Splits

Culture editor John Swansburg is moving to The New Yorker's web team

Comments | 1,064 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 13, 2011

TechCrunch Readers Revolt After Rave for Arrington-Funded Company

Just when it looked like the debate about TechCrunch's editorial integrity was over

Comments | 1,936 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 13, 2011

Hawking Giffords Interview Lands ABC in Hot Water

Gabrielle Giffords might not actually be appearing on camera

Comments | 22,530 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 9, 2011

HuffPost Is Now Recruiting Teenagers to Blog for Free

The National Union of Journalists is going to hate this

Comments | 1,921 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 7, 2011

Journalists Aren't So Sure About This Phone Hacking Investigation

A former News of the World reporter is refusing to answer questions from Parliament

Comments | 845 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 6, 2011

Reuters Snags Slate's Jack Shafer

According to New York, Shafer will join Reuters stable of opinion columnists

Comments | 809 Views

By Erik Hayden

Sep 6, 2011

Sweeping September 11th Magazine Covers Unveiled

A curation of news magazines tenth anniversary covers

Comments | 1,951 Views

By Rebecca Greenfield

Sep 2, 2011

Takeaway From Arrington Startup Saga: AOL Is Looking Sleazy

Also, disorganized. So many different stories. Here's a quick explanation

Comments | 829 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 2, 2011

News Corp.'s One 'Truly Independent Director' Departs Board

Tom Perkins has criticized the Murdochs and News Corp. during the phone hacking scandal

Comments | 517 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 1, 2011

TechCrunch's New Venture Fund Is One Big Conflict of Interest

AOL is helping to finance the company it covers

Comments | 517 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Sep 1, 2011

The Washington Post Is Closing Almost All of Its Local Bureaus

Insiders say that only the Annapolis and Richmond bureaus will stay open

Comments | 1,634 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 31, 2011

A Peek Inside the Church of Scientology's Fake New Yorker

The cultish religious organization is giving narrative nonfiction a try

Comments | 4,990 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 31, 2011

All Hail the End of Apple's App Store

Nobody seems surprised that the Financial Times is fleeing Apple's sandbox

Comments | 2,065 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 30, 2011

Irene Brought the Weather Channel Its Best Ratings Ever

Whether warranted or not, the hype delivered viewers

Comments | 192 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 30, 2011

The New York Times Wants to Put the News in Your Kitchen Table

Literally! The newspaper is experimenting with the possibilities of a tabletop screen

Comments | 1,384 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 29, 2011

Deconstructing the Hurricane Irene Hype

Let's not forget about the under-hyped Hurricane Katrina

Comments | 1,756 Views

By Erik Hayden

Aug 25, 2011

New York and Los Angeles Think Each Other's Waterways Stink

LA and NY Times each run articles on the other city's contaminated waterways

Comments | 357 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Aug 25, 2011

Karl Rove Calls Sarah Palin's Bluff

Says if Palin wants people to stop speculating, she should say she's not running

Comments | 62,301 Views

By Rebecca Greenfield

Aug 24, 2011

Jim Romenesko Is Retiring, Kind Of

After 12 years the media blogger is moving on to a personal blog about media

Comments | 408 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Aug 24, 2011

When They're Not Shoving Them, Bachmann's Aides Carefully Manage Reporters

Candidate takes questions from a list of reporters after aides find out what they want to ask

Comments | 480 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 24, 2011

Journalists Freed from the Rixos Hotel in Tripoli

The Rixos Hotel has become a prison of sorts for 35 international journalists

Comments | 1,636 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 23, 2011

Early Reviews of the Web's 'Hometown Newspaper'

The Daily Dot wants to cover online communities like real life communities

Comments | 690 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 22, 2011

Criticism Over American Networks' Late Arrival to Libya Coverage

Everyone was wondering why MSNBC, CNN, and Fox didn't broadcast from Tripoli sooner

Comments | 2,340 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 19, 2011

News Corp. More Afraid of U.S. Justice Department Than Scotland Yard

Evidence of bribes could unhinge Rupert Murdoch's businesses in the U.S.

Comments | 667 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Aug 17, 2011

Hunter S. Thompson's Preferred Breakfast: Eggs, Sausage, Cocaine

"Anybody with a terminally jangled lifestyle needs at least one psychic anchor every 24 hours"

Comments | 14,963 Views

By Elspeth Reeve

Aug 17, 2011

Sex Discrimination Suit Against Bloomberg Dismissed

No evidence discrimination against mothers and pregnant women was 'standard operating procedure'

Comments | 690 Views

By Alexander Abad-Santos

Aug 16, 2011

Spatwatch

Designers Lash Out at the Huffington Post's Call for a Free Logo

HuffPost organizes a contest that designers want no part of

Comments | 2,069 Views

By John Hudson

Aug 16, 2011

Ron Paul's Media Blackout Explained

There's a reason the Texas Congressman wasn't on the small screen this weekend

Comments | 18,026 Views

By John Hudson

Aug 16, 2011

A Cleaner Way to Read the New York Times

A former Times developer re-creates the web site he wished he built

Comments | 2,502 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 16, 2011

The Smart Set

'Queen Bee' Julie Chen; Kutcher's Beastly $2 Million Trailer

Plus: Joe Biden gets in a pre-China round of a golf in Bridgehampton

Comments | 5,345 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 15, 2011

Understanding Google's Strategy With Motorola

The tech company version of the Art of War

Comments | 2,069 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 15, 2011

Bad Markets Equal Good Business at CNBC

Plus: The New York Observer's list of the top "media power bachelors" is out

Comments | 480 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 15, 2011

Curb Your 'Austin Powers 4' Enthusiasm

Plus: Budget concerns stall Disney's 'The Lone Ranger'

Comments | 1,977 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 12, 2011

@CondeElevator Wasn't by the Person People Said It Was

After The Daily Beast declared the mystery solved, we're back to square one

Comments | 886 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 12, 2011

New York Post 'Couldn't Hack an Electric Toothbrush'

A former gossip columnist dismisses the likelihood of phone hacking

Comments | 1,552 Views

By John Hudson

Aug 11, 2011

No, CBS Didn't 'Invent' Original TV Reporting

Debunking CBS's flashy new ad campaign

Comments | 357 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 11, 2011

@CondeElevator Has Tweeted Its Last Tweet

In just six days and 35 tweets, the account racked up almost 60,000 followers

Comments | 1,379 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 11, 2011

New York Tabloids Are Trying to Outdo Each Other at Tasteless

The New York Post see hookers and a bull's behinds in the stock market

Comments | 1,031 Views

By Alexander Abad-Santos

Aug 10, 2011

Spatwatch

Battle Breaks Out Among Manhattan's Weeklies

The New York Observer questions its competition; The Village Voice questions back

Comments | 517 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 10, 2011

Condé Nast's War on Gossip Whisperers

The publisher is looking for the person behind the very funny @CondeElevator account

Comments | 2,069 Views

By Ray Gustini

Aug 9, 2011

Garlic Mustard, Miserable Scientists, and Missing Docks

Plus: banks are now zombies, possibly squid zombies

Comments | 607 Views

By Adam Clark Estes

Aug 9, 2011

Bachmann Was Not Blinded by a Lighting Test

Newsweek defends its photographer against a charge he startled his subject

Comments | 8,924 Views

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