[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 13, 2010.]
TBD takes off: One of the most anticipated new news organizations in journalism’s recent history launched this week in the form of TBD, a site owned by Allbritton Communications (the folks behind Politico) covering local news in Washington, D.C. As The Huffington Post’s Jack Mirkinson wrote, [...]
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on Aug. 6, 2010.]
A newbie owner for Newsweek: This week was a big one for Newsweek: After being on the block since May, it was sold to Sidney Harman, a 92-year-old audio equipment mogul who’s married to a Democratic congresswoman and owns no other media properties. The price: [...]
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FCC,
google,
net neutrality,
Newsweek,
privacy,
Sidney Harman,
Tumblr,
Verizon,
WikiLeaks
[This review was originally posted at the Nieman Journalism Lab on April 9, 2010.]
The iPad unleashed: If you’ve been anywhere near a computer or TV this week, it’s not hard to determine what this week’s top journalism/new media story is: Apple’s iPad hit stores Saturday, with 450,000 sold as of Thursday. I’ll spare you the scores [...]
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alan mutter,
Columbia University,
Cory Doctorow,
iPad,
Michael Wolff,
net neutrality,
news apps,
paywall,
programmer journalists,
rupert murdoch,
WikiLeaks
Lots of good stuff to get to this week. And I’m getting closer to being on time. (Explanation is here.)
— Mark Bowden of The Atlantic takes a case study of the discovery and development of Sonia Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” and “make policy” videos to use as a launching point into a diatribe against advocacy journalists [...]