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Alexandra Staley, perhaps the most-wrong reporter in the New York Times’ rich, cosplay-filled history, is moving back to beat reporting from movie criticism, per a memo from editor-in-chief Dean Bacquet. Staley will move from writing about the film industry to “creating a new beat: an interdisciplinary look at the way the richest of the rich…
Circa, a news app, will cease publishing circa now, according to a post from its co-founder Matt Galligan on Medium titled “Farewell to Circa News.” This announcement follows days of drama surrounding the news app’s fate, which abruptly stopped updating on Monday, leaving at least one reader very confused. But now we have our answer:…
Farewell to Circa News It’s with great disappointment that we let you know that Circa News has been put on indefinite hiatus. Producing high-quality news can be a costly endeavor and without the capital necessary to support further production we are unable to continue. Our mission was always to create a news company where factual,…
Mobile news service Circa, which attracted lots of attention in media circles but had limited traction with users, is shutting down. Founder Matt Galligan says the company, which stopped updating its news app on Monday, is on “indefinite hiatus” and says his remaining employees will need new jobs. Circa raised at least $4 million since…
Is it possible comment sections aren’t as terrible as many journalists believe? That’s the argument of a new study, “A Tale of Two Stories from “Below the Line”: Comment Fields at the Guardian,” just published in the July issue of The International Journal of Press/Politics. Of course, in the slow-moving world of academia, a “new”…
Here’s the short Circa version: We tried to do something very different, we took huge risks, we built a product that spawned a whole new category, and we enjoyed every moment of it, at least until the money ran out and that sucked. Care to know more? By all means, read on: We got some…
Brian Williams’ welcome to MSNBC might be frigid because staffers there haven’t forgotten a scathing report he arrogantly aired on his short-lived “Rock Center” about “corrosive” cable news blowhards at MSNBC, Fox News and CNN. The two-part September 2012 report was so unpopular at MSNBC that, at a network holiday party shortly after, some over-served…
On Saturday, the New York Times published an article about Charleston shooter Dylan Roof’s newly discovered manifesto and cache of selfies. It would have been a pretty straightforward news story had the Times not been fooled by a teen into reporting that Roof was a diehard fan of My Little Pony and was obsessed with…
If you read this New York Times article about Dylann Roof on Saturday afternoon, you may have learned the following about the suspected Charleston shooter’s online manifesto: Benjamin Wareing, a blogger in Britain, said the writings are nearly identical to blog posts that Mr. Roof posted several months ago on a separate Tumblr page. Mr….