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June 15, 2015 6:30 p.m. ET Verizon Communications Inc. has no desire to sell the Huffington Post or buy Dish Network Corp., Chief Financial Officer Fran Shammo said at a Wall Street Journal conference Monday. Verizon agreed last month to pay $4.4 billion for AOL Inc., AOL 0.08 % which owns several media properties including the…
This story was produced in collaboration with Marketplace. If you spent the beginning of February listening to the latest episode of each of the top 100 shows on the iTunes “top podcasts” chart, you’d have heard “Stone Cold” Steve Austin talk about the best way to deliver flowers. You’d have heard the Freakonomics crew spend…
Photo Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker. Credit Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times “I’m pretty sure we have a revolution coming,” said Nick Denton, founder and chief executive of Gawker Media. “It’s not 100 percent guaranteed, but the existing corporate structure is looking pretty hollow.” It was a mild spring evening, and Mr….
Today the Washington Post published a lengthy and (mostly) flattering profile of Benny Johnson, the serial plagiarist who was fired from BuzzFeed last summer and now peddles viral conservative content at Independent Journal Review. “D.C. has always been the city of second chances, now it just moves at meme speed,” reporter Ben Terris writes. “And…
Photo Vincent Musetto Credit New York Post Vincent Musetto, a retired editor at The New York Post who wrote the most anatomically evocative headline in the history of American journalism — HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR — died on Tuesday in the Bronx. He was 74. A former colleague, Myron Rushetzky, confirmed the death, at…
paging_filter THE OPT OUT FIGHT—Capital’s Jessica Bakeman: High Achievement New York, a pro-Common Core coalition that includes business groups, has launched a six-figure radio and digital advertising campaign encouraging parents to “opt in” their children for state exams. The campaign aims to combat the growing movement of children refusing state tests, which has been fueled…
In 2012, Twitter made the decision to allow Sunlight to curate the deleted tweets from lawmakers and those seeking elected office. Last night all that changed. When we launched Politwoops three years ago, our goal was to create accountability and a public record for the messages elected officials and candidates for president, vice president, Congress…
Credit: Reddit Attempting to measure engagement is “one of the great neurosis” of the modern media industry, according to The New York Times’ James G. Robinson. Discussions around metrics often focus too much on measurement and not enough around insights, Robinson, the outlet’s director of analytics innovation, told delegates at the World News Media Congress…
Photo Arianna Huffington, editor of The Huffington Post, reportedly has said she is not sure her ambitious plans for the site can be executed under Verizon. Credit Andrew Burton/Getty Images Over the last couple of years, an array of media companies, venture capitalists and wealthy individuals have quietly explored buying a stake in The Huffington…
When John Oliver planted a giant bag of marijuana in my hand Sunday night and broadcast it to millions of HBO viewers, I immediately thought of Chekhov. In one of the Russian master’s shortest short stories, a lowly civil servant is so ecstatic to find an article about himself in the newspaper that he cannot…