Google’s ‘Immigration Fixer’

The title “immigration specialist” grabbed my attention in this article in the Business, Innovation, Technology and Society (Bits) section of the online New York Times. Christine Doyle does not, as I first...

New York Times Tries to Ease 'Cash Flow Squeeze'

Like many other major news media companies in North America, The New York Times Company is facing a perilous financial future. The company owes a $400 million debt payment that is due in May 2009 and concerns are...

Judith Miller Gets Fox News Slot

Famed NYTimes journo Judith Miller is signing up with Fox News, an organization devoted to the destruction of her former employer.  Miller, a Pulitzer prize winning journalist left the Times in disgrace.  Her downfall came as a result of her reporting on Iraq's WMD...

The Theoretical Underpinnings of Microblogging

Microblogging (like Twitter, communication in 140 characters or less,) ambient awareness, weak and strong social ties all come up this piece from NYTimes magazine by Clive Thompson. I liked this article because it...

Murdoch's WSJ Changes Creates Opening for NYT

An interesting analysis from Barry L. Ritholtz on the opportunities open to news organizations like the NYTimes now that Murdoch is shaking up the WSJ.  "Murdoch's changes are both ambitious and perplexing:...

How the New York Times can fight back and win

"nytimes.com must be reinvented. It must become a total Web 2.0 news and social media site. It must transform its users into participants and attract many more of them. Nytimes.com should embrace social media with more goodies than USA Today's tepid experiment"

New York Observer’s Parent Buys PoliticsNJ Site

"We missed this on Friday: Observer Media Group, owner of the weekly New York Observer, has bough out political news and community site PoliticsNJ. Observer owner and publisher Jared Kushner bought the site a month ago and it relaunched last week. Last Monday he hired a new...

LE REVUE GAUCHE - Left Analysis And Comment: Corporate America Greener Than H...

"Ten major US corporations, including industry giants General Electric, DuPont and Alcoa, have joined forces with leading environmental groups to call for a slash in carbon-dioxide emissions of 10-to-30 per cent over the next 15 years."

The Guardian's Most Useful Sites in 2006

As The Guardian reports today:"Two years ago most Britons didn't have broadband and Web 2.0 was barely a twinkle in a developer's eye. Things have changed - as our cream of the crop for 2006 shows "This year the...

NYTimes launches MyTimes, a weak RSS play

"NYTimes.com has launched a limited beta of a personalized news site called MyTimes.com (screenshots via PaidContent), an RSS play that looks more like MyYahoo than it does the recent Newsgator partnerships with MyUSAToday and MyNewsweek. Unlike in those services, it does...

Hannity Uses Mumbai Bombings To Attack New York Times

"The Mumbai bombings were the top story on Hannity & Colmes last night (7/11/06) but for Sean Hannity, the incidents were just another excuse to attack the New York Times."

HEELLLPPP!! *&!! - The NYT is reporting that Joe Biden ... (Jane Hamsher/Fir...

"HEELLLPPP!!  *&!!  —  The NYT is reporting that Joe Biden will bring his bleached teeth and hair transplants to Connecticut to campaign for Holy Joe (and that's the last I want to hear about "outside interference" from Camp Lieberman).  He'll be...

Gawker Trims Portfolio, Lays Off Bloggers

"The New York Times is reporting that Gawker Media founder and CEO Nick Denton is putting two of his lowest performing blogs on the block, reorganizing others and laying off several people. Sploid and Screenhead are being sold. Editors at..."

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