Inside Fox, staffers believe that C.E.O. Lachlan Murdoch is likely to nudge the network in a less pro-Trump direction. Is this the first step in a larger strategy to sell the newly spun-off company? Donald Trump’s alliance with Fox News has been one of the few constants throughout his shambolic presidency. …
Alan Rusbridger’s account of his time at The Guardian illustrates the possibilities and limits of journalism in the digital era. “I think news is incredibly important to society and democracy,” Mark Zuckerberg told a group of editors and media executives in May. The Guardian and its sister newspaper, The Observer, had reported two months earlier …
President Trump has ignored bedrock diplomatic alliances. He has stared directly into an eclipse. His disregard for the “off” part of an off-the-record meeting would seem to surprise exactly no one. But the president’s decision to speak publicly about his recent private discussion with A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, …
“You’re the opposition party. Not the Democratic Party. You’re the opposition party. The media’s the opposition party.” ~STEPHEN K. BANNON, chief White House strategist. Source: Quotation of the Day – The New York Times
“It was like Wile E. Coyote running halfway across the canyon and realizing that his footing was a little suspect.” ~MARTIN GOTTLIEB, who retired in January as the editor of The Record, New Jersey’s second-largest newspaper, on the paper’s financial pressures. The Record has laid off hundreds of people since …
Hulk Hogan’s smashing legal victory shows us that publishing the truth may no longer be enough. When Hulk Hogan faced off in court against the Web site Gawker, earlier this year, it was easy to become distracted by the rococo tawdriness of the spectacle. After all, the case centered on …
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An organization’s efforts to get out the vote may help to determine who wins the 2016 election. Jose Barboza was up early on March 22nd, the day of the Presidential primary in Arizona. Barboza, a twenty-four-year-old undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was volunteering for Promise Arizona, a local group dedicated to …
Depending on whom you ask, Facebook is either the savior or destroyer of journalism in our time. An estimated 600 million people see a news story on Facebook every week, and the social network’s founder Mark Zuckerberg has been transparent about his goal to monopolize digital news distribution. “When news …
It’s winter in Mumbai, which means the Queen’s Necklace, the nickname for the sea-hugging boulevard whose street lamps evoke a string of pearls, is lighted more gaudily than usual. Along a half-mile stretch of the thoroughfare sits a succession of private clubs known as gymkhanas, where generations of families have …
What the online juggernaut can learn from Time, USA Today, and MTV Before Nyan Cat, before “Imma let you finish,” even beforerickrolling, there was a small startup in New York dedicated to finding pre-viral content online. The first employees of BuzzFeedwrote aboutBorat, MySpace, and the “highly anticipated” Nintendo Wii.That was 2006—nine years ago on …
Americans spent $2.9 billion on homeopathic medicine in a single year Homeopathy, the medical concept based on the premise that “like cures like” has been around for over 200 years. Practitioners of homeopathy dilute a substance that produces a given symptom with water or alcohol with the counterintuitive belief that …
