Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
On Wednesday, The Daily Beast published an article describing a reporter’s attempts to use several dating apps, such as Tinder and Grindr, near the Olympic Village in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Barra da Tijuca. The piece, which was written by London correspondent Nico Hines, was widely condemned after readers realized that it was…
Today, The Daily Beast took an unprecedented but necessary step: We are removing an article from our site, “The Other Olympic Sport In Rio: Swiping.” The Daily Beast does not do this lightly. As shared in our editor’s note earlier today, we initially thought swift removal of any identifying characteristics and better clarification of our…
Image via Getty. In an essay for Marie Claire, MSNBC/NBC reporter Katy Tur writes that, after Donald Trump launched a personal attack against her at a South Carolina rally, she had to be accompanied out by Secret Service agents. Tur, who’s been covering Trump for the networks for the last year, became the focus of…
Buy Photo Copies of the Rutland Herald on a newsstand in Middlebury, Saturday(Photo: CORY DAWSON/FREE PRESS)Buy Photo RUTLAND – A mix of apathy and melancholy struck people Saturday in Rutland as they reacted to news that the Rutland Herald and its sister paper, the Times Argus are in financial straits. • Employees, from reporters to…
As Gawker founder Nick Denton navigates his company’s looming sale, both his and his firm’s assets are protected from Hulk Hogan’s reach by bankruptcy. Now, Hogan is looking to collect the more than $140 million he was awarded in his invasion of privacy lawsuit against Gawker earlier this year, and only one man is left…
Athletes (not featured in the Daily Beast article) at the Olympics.Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images On Thursday morning, the Daily Beast published an exceedingly gross and bizarre article by a straight, married male writer who lured in gay Olympians through hookup apps for no particular purpose. The entire piece is an astoundingly creepy exercise in Grindr-baiting,…
Walt Mossberg is a legend. I mean it—he’s someone I’ve tried to emulate for most of my professional career. He’s made a great living testing gadgets, hanging out with influential technologists, and giving everyday people advice on how to better use their consumer electronics. But lately, it seems like Mossberg’s love affair with tech is…
First Look Media has decided to discontinue funding of Reported.ly, a social media reporting and verification outfit. This has led the organization to announce it will suspend operations on Aug. 31. Besides Reported.ly’s editor Andy Carvin, four more staffers are affected by this decision and will be leaving First Look Media at the end of…
Loading the player reg… BRIAN STELTER: In terms of the money, this is Gabriel Sherman’s reporting in New York magazine. He’s been a leader on this story, wrote a book about Roger Ailes a number of years ago. A lot of what he’s reporting I think reporters have suspected for a while. I’ll give you an…
Few people in the news business have valued secrecy quite like Roger Ailes, the former C.E.O. of Fox News. Ailes’s very own corner office on the second floor of 21st Century Fox’s glass and steel headquarters, in Midtown Manhattan, featured a solid wood door that prevented anyone on the outside from peering in. Visitors had…