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Gigaom is winding down and its assets are now controlled by the company’s lenders. It is not how you want the story of a company you founded to end. Every founder starts on a path — hopeful and optimistic, full of desire to build something that helps change the world for the better, reshape an…
New Media Disrupted: GigaOm Web Sites Suddenly Stop Publishing Posted by Tom Foremski – March 9, 2015 Above, at the recent Crunchies Awards, Om Malik (right) is told by Mike Arrington, founder of news site Techcrunch, that there’s far more money in investing in startups than there is in publishing. The management of GigaOm, the…
Credit: By ota_photos on Flickr. Some right reserved. To mark International Women’s Day this weekend here’s our pick of 10 of the top female journalists and tech innovators who’ve made an impact on the industry over the last year. We received a great number of nominations on Twitter for this list, which you can see…
Let’s see what happens when we shrink the filter bubble. Every person you follow or block, every app you use, you’re making a trade-off, the hope that this new stream of information will give you exactly what you need in exchange for closing yourself off a little more from the rest of the world. There…
Guardian‘s Ana Marie Cox continued her rebirth this morning with an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” She’s been receiving a heap of attention from a recent Daily Beast column in which she comes out as a Christian. A number of Washingtonians and MSNBC “Morning Joe” hosts are noticing a major change in her as of late. As some may recall, in 2011…
In an effort to rebuild its media team after recent buyouts and the death of columnist David Carr, The New York Times has announced several new appointments on its Media desk, including the promotion of Bill Brink to media editor. Brink, who has served as deputy media editor since 2011, will now oversee all media…
Facebook is a big and maddening place. Antiviral wants to make it better. To that end, we’re putting together a comprehensive guide to the new, bad, weird, and bullshit “news sites” that are appearing on your feed. Here’s part one: “Satire.” Ever since Facebook completed its evolution from a Friendster ripoff to an internet-transforming Elder…
Like a great many such things, some of journalism’s most precious ideals were the happy result of geography and economics. That is, in any given geography, the dominant newspaper tended towards a natural monopoly for two reasons: When it came to costs, the ownership of expensive printing presses and distribution channels made entrance difficult for…
In November 2013, Tanzina Vega, a young reporter for The New York Times, pitched Jill Abramson, the paper’s then-executive editor, the idea of devoting a reporting beat on the national desk to coverage of race and ethnicity. Abramson liked the idea, and Vega became the beat’s sole reporter, publishing over the course of the next year an…
Last week, director Joseph Kahn dropped his “dark as f*ck” POWER/RANGERS short. Soon, it was pulled from the internet, but now it’s back in full NSFW glory. So what happened? In an exclusive interview, Kahn explains how the internet saved his short. Plus why he doesn’t think the real Power Rangers show should be this…