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RJI Futures Lab; Skye Gould/Business Insider The man tasked with overseeing Gizmodo Media Group after the demise of Gawker.com says he never regularly read the site in the first place. “I’m well past the demographic they were aiming for,” CEO Raju Narisetti said in an interview. “If you ask me if it was a place…
Reporters and editors at the New York news organizations DNAinfo and Gothamist have agreed to unionize after combining their operations last month. An “overwhelming” majority of the 26 members of the newsroom staffs of the two websites signed cards agreeing to be represented by the Writers Guild of America East, according to organizers and staff…
In a world of fake news and alternative facts, chyrons are setting the record straight. The tiny, digital, almost always “Breaking News”-adorned captions superimposed on the bottom of screens during newscasts were historically used to introduce the topic that reporters or political figures are addressing for audiences tuning in after the start of a segment. In other words, they’re usually unimportant…
featured image =============================== Realigning the news business with the needs of societies overwhelmed by too much information and too many choices is key to rebuilding trust Ray Bussolari/Creative Commons article-img-caption /article-img article-media I think we’re beyond peak fake news pandemic. The early fever of moral panic has abated. Attention is moving from symptoms to cause….
New York Times public editor Liz Spayd wrote an exceptionally stupid column this weekend criticizing the newspaper’s sports section. The Times sports department is notable in that it mostly devotes its resources to investigations and distinctive reporting about a wide array of sports and the athletes who play them, rather than publishing straight gamers off…
We—along with Cesar, who works at the deli counter—would like to extend our congratulations to our friend Peggy Noonan, who has just been awarded the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. On Ronald Reagan, and other matters. It was almost exactly a year ago that a Florida jury returned a $140 million verdict that sent Gawker…
The cruise missiles struck, and many in the mainstream media fawned. “I think Donald Trump became president of the United States last night,” declared Fareed Zakaria on CNN, after firing of 59 missiles at a Syrian military airfield late Thursday night. (His words sounded familiar, since CNN’s Van Jones made a nearly identical pronouncement after…
“She Tackled Breslin” “Mary Ji-Yeon Yuh versus the Real New Yorker” Village Voice – May 22, 1990 Page 11-12, Metro Section by David D. Kim In a city where racial and sexual tensions constantly threaten to bubble over, Mary Ji-Yeon Yuh is considered a hero by many, particularly Asian Americans, for speaking out against Jimmy…
Rachel Maddow on her show last week in New York. Credit An Rong Xu for The New York Times Rachel Maddow had a big scoop, and she handled it her way. With a single tweet on Tuesday, Ms. Maddow, the MSNBC anchor, set the political world ablaze, announcing at 7:36 p.m. that she was poised…
The logo for the “Missing Richard Simmons” podcast by Dan Taberski. For decades, the fitness guru Richard Simmons was Hollywood’s most accessible celebrity. He was a talk show fixture, a leader of weight loss cruises and an instructor of $12 classes at his Beverly Hills workout studio, Slimmons. He greeted tour buses in front of…