Journalism
Politico implodes – The Washington Post
John Harris, left, and Jim VandeHei of Politico. (Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press) In what can be described only as a cataclysm in Beltway media, CEO Jim VandeHei is leaving Politico, the eight-year-old politics website that shook up Washington journalism, according to sources and reports by Huffington Post and CNNMoney. And in what can be described only…
Politico Co-Founder Jim VandeHei Expected To Leave In Possible Shakeup
Politico CEO Jim VandeHei is expected to leave the company he co-founded later this year in what staffers believe will be a major shake-up, with other top journalists and executives also leaving the news organization later this year. Beyond VandeHei, at least four other high-level departures are expected, according to newsroom sources. Staffers say VandeHei…
Donald Trump Fans Attack Megyn Kelly With Sexist Slurs
Since Donald Trump announced he wouldn’t take part in Thursday’s GOP debate over his dislike of Megyn Kelly, Trump’s fans reacted just as expected: by unleashing a vile torrent of sexist rage against the Fox News anchor. Looking at 80,000 tweets directed at Kelly’s official Twitter handle from Tuesday to Wednesday morning—as well as close…
Honda’s Lawyers Want Us To Dox One Of Our Readers; We Said Hell No
A lot of people read Jalopnik. More than 8 million globally this month alone, in fact. They range from everyday car enthusiasts to people who clicked an errant Facebook link about sloths to auto industry professionals. Honda’s lawyers are demanding that we take down a set of comments from an apparent reader in the third…
What Happened to Jane Mayer When She Wrote About the Koch Brothers – NYTimes.com
About New York By JIM DWYER Out of the blue in the fall of 2010, a blogger asked Jane Mayer, a writer with The New Yorker, how she felt about the private investigator who was digging into her background. Ms. Mayer thought the idea was a joke, she said this week. At a Christmas party…
Medium CEO Ev Williams Podcast Interview With Re/code’s Peter Kafka | Re/code
Ev Williams made it easy for people to say what they want online. But the man who created Blogger, then Twitter and now Medium says the Web is on its way out, at least as a place to publish your thoughts. In an interview with Peter Kafka on the latest episode of “Re/code Decode,” Medium…
The sky is falling on print newspapers faster than you think — Medium
The sky is falling on print newspapers faster than you think Last October, a McKinsey report declared, “We believe that many of the people likely to abandon print newspapers and print consumer magazines have already done so…. We believe most of this core audience — households that have retained their print subscriptions despite having access to broadband — will…
Republican lawmaker says journalists should face a registry to work in South Carolina – Post and Courier
Rep. Mike Pitts, R- Laurens. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) file An Upstate lawmaker who tried to keep the Confederate flag flying and whose campaign spending habits were part of a Post and Courier examination of Statehouse money trails says it’s time to register journalists in the state. State Rep. Mike Pitts, R-Laurens, Tuesday introduced a…
The Problem With Journalism Is You Need an Audience
Why can’t you find The Greatest Publication Ever Made on any newsstand or web browser or TV network? Because people don’t want it. This is America, where journalism is a business like any other. This is not England. The government will not be raining down supplemental income to support quality journalism. Take that socialism elsewhere!…