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The Media’s Unproductive Obsession With Oligarchs and Gentrifiers By: Stephen Smith on February 20th 2015 at 4:00 pm Time Warner Center, image from Wikipedia Earlier this month, the New York Times published the results of its year-plus-long investigation into the buyers of condos at the Time Warner Center and other buildings around the bottom of Central…
Politico eminence Maggie Haberman just announced her departure for the New York Times: Thrilled to say I am joining @nytimes, and very grateful for the opportunity. I remain incredibly grateful to @politico for an amazing run — Maggie Haberman (@maggiepolitico) January 9, 2015 According to a New York Times memo cited in Capital New York,…
Ehhhhh. I’m not really sure about this article. So it is… an attempt to identify BuzzFeed that ends up calling it unidentifiable while criticizing others who criticize people who criticize BuzzFeed? This may be a little too deep media, even for me, but unpacking it: So, I don’t think anyone has ever claimed BuzzFeed is…
BuzzFeed isn’t just for listicles anymore, and whoever says otherwise is regurgitating outdated folk wisdom. Or, at least, that’s the prevailing meme ping-ponging around media circles (read: people I follow on Twitter). It’s true, BuzzFeed has changed. The company has displayed the kind of hockey-stick growth that tempted investors to cut checks for $50 million…
Significant questions have arisen after a large number of images were disqualified from this year’s World Press Photo competition because of excessive — and sometimes blatant — post-processing. After independent experts examined the images being considered for prizes in the final rounds, and presented their findings to the jury, 20 percent of the photos were…
coins metadata inserted by kblog-metadata At some point Thursday, the title of Jon Ronson’s essay changed from “How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco’s Life” to “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life.” The change helps, because while “blew up” is figurative language—and thus, obviously not to be taken literally—the statement that Sacco’s life was…
Jon Stewart’s retirement from The Daily Show this week, accompanied by many tears and some cheers, is getting a lot of coverage around the web. First, because the show is insanely popular. But more than that, because the show demonstrates a real shift in what authority and authenticity look like in the 21st century. In…
At the heart of the media’s chattiest technology is a hollow sharing economy. A personal investigation into just how little traffic Twitter’s maelstrom actually contributes to websites. Dado Ruvic/Reuters In January, I deleted Twitter from my phone. The app was a charming distraction, I decided, and 2015 would be a year of productivity upgrades. Three…
I published a post two weeks ago explaining how we’re optimizing the newsroom for business realities. I included four circular graphics. The first provided a visual framework for a new kind of editorial workflow. The other three were specific examples of how we sync up staff and contributor content on Forbes.com with audience segments, the…
Crain’s New York Business on Thursday laid off a dozen reporters and editors — 40 percent of its full-time editorial staff — with publisher Jill Kaplan citing a need to “re-align the brand’s costs with its revenues,” according to people who described the company’s explanation for the downsizing. Editor Glenn Coleman told his staff he…