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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…
Some Changes at The Nib Since The Nib launched in September 2013 we’ve published over 1,500 comics. Except I’ve been saying that line for a while now so it’s probably much more at this point. 2,000? We publish a lot, and the core of that strategy has been a mix of exclusive work and reprints…
Since its official launch in 2013, Fusion has aimed to be a haven for sweet millennial clicks and a place for journalists to make a lot of money while practicing “post-text” journalism. You can debate whether it’s accomplished either of those things, but one thing that can’t be debated is that no one is actually…
When she decided to write the story of her sexual assault, the woman who goes by “Josie” said she “went into it with the expectation that someone would find out who I was.” The piece, published by Jezebel on May 21, explained the role she played in the Columbia University allegations against student Paul Nungesser…
Talk to someone who works at the Huffington Post these days and inevitably one word will keep popping up: “demoralized.” “I’ve never seen people so demoralized” is what a typical HuffPost employee usually says. A spike in despair makes a certain amount of sense. People are leaving the place in droves. (A huge portion of…
Photo Madhulika Sikka is by far the most prominent hire for Mic since its founding in 2011. Credit Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Peabody Awards Madhulika Sikka, the executive editor at NPR News, is leaving the organization for Mic, a news site aimed at the so-called millennial generation, the companies announced on Tuesday. Ms. Sikka will…
It was 10 o’clock on a Friday night in spring 2014 and I was sitting on the sofa in my one-bed Paris apartment when I received a message from a French terrorist based in Syria: “Salaam alaikum, sister. I see you watched my video. It’s gone viral – crazy! Are you Muslim? What do you…
Need more proof of the role Facebook is playing in the distribution of news? Among Americans born between 1981 and 1996 — a.k.a millennials — 61 percent get political news from Facebook in a given week, versus 37 percent who get it from local TV. That’s according to a new Pew Research Center study released…
Until now, mining good journalism from the web’s depths has been done from the top. Over the last 13 years, looking for “signals” that flag quality content has been at the core of Google News: With a search engine scanning and ranking 50,000 sources in 30 languages and 72 editions, its inventor, the famous computer…
Media gadfly and would-be mogul Michael Wolff has a new book out, or maybe coming out soon, presumably with a title and so on. Here are the blurbs: The blurbs for Michael Wolff’s new book pic.twitter.com/PHERgmsUeD May 29, 2015 While we appreciate our inclusion in this murderers’ row of “big shots,” we feel this quote…