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Eric Spitz, left, and Aaron Kushner, right. LEONARD ORTIZ, FILE PHOTO googleon: allSANTA ANA – Aaron Kushner and Eric Spitz, co-owners of Freedom Communications, resigned Tuesday from all executive duties at Freedom and the Orange County Register.Publisher Rich Mirman, the former casino marketing executive who has been running day-to-day operations since fall, assumed their executive…
March 10, 2015 Jen Sorensen Jen Sorensen is an award-winning political cartoonist and comics editor for Fusion’s Graphic Culture section. A fan of visual storytelling about the world we live in, she’s based in Austin, TX. … more “The phone rang. It was my college rapist.” — Fusion.
As part of its annual US graduate school rankings, US News has released data that tracks enrollment and tuition growth for the schools it ranks. Despite substantially higher costs across the board, most disciplines have seen rising (rapidly, in the case of engineering) or steady enrollment. A notable exception is law school, for which enrollment is declining. Despite the tough climate for American law school graduates,…
Photo CC-BY Fortune Live Media. We haven’t met, but our firm is asked about you in almost every interview we do about diversity in tech. When asked how you have risen through the ranks of tech and the rest of us haven’t, our answer is usually “Yes, a few women have succeeded, but holding them up…
<br /> In the latest episode of Filmmaker IQ (previously), host John P. Hess traces the history of the auteur theory, a concept in film criticism that celebrates the director as the primary auteur (from the French word for “author”) of a film’s creative vision. Simply put, the Auteur Theory holds that a film is…
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Begin: WordPress Article Content GigaOm, a tech blog founded by journalist turned VC Om Malik, is shutting down after finding itself unable to repay creditors. The site has been serving up tech news (and has served as a direct competitor to TechCrunch) since 2006.Initially Twitter chatter backed up reports of the site’s demise. “Gigaom is…
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington on stage with Gigaom founder Om Malik in February. Money troubles have forced the pioneering tech blog Gigaom to shutter. “Gigaom recently became unable to pay its creditors in full at this time,” the website said in a statement. “All operations have ceased.” The news site didn’t say when its financial…
GigaOm, the 9-year-old tech blog based in San Francisco, will shut down due to a lack of financial resources, a senior editor there confirmed Monday. The site, which was launched by tech blogger Om Malik in 2006, is one of several sites covering Silicon Valley and the tech industry. It also produces a number of…
Gigaom, a pioneering technology blog that became a fixture in Silicon Valley and claimed 6.4 million monthly readers, abruptly announced on Monday that it would shut down. The site, which was founded in 2006, seemed to have been stopped dead in its tracks — earlier Monday, it had been posting articles, most recently on Apple….