For months, the entertainment press has with its relentless hype all but guaranteed us that This Is It, the Michael Jackson rehearsal documentary would become if not the highest grossing film of all time, certainly one of the top three.
American may be making its way away from the print version of the Gray Lady, but perhaps its past time for her to make her leap from newsprint to big screen star.
Couples Retreat may have won the weekend box office crown, but the big buzz is about Paranormal Activity, a little no-budget horror film that's on the brink of becoming the Next Big Movie To Change Everything.
In the most misguided media decision of the decade, Rolling Stone opted to let online readers look at the pictures from their recent Megan Fox cover story, but held back the text from the internet, making them pay for words.
As if paying out the snout for a graduate degree to help you land a low-paying job in the highly unstable field of journalism wasn't hard enough. Now, Inside Higher Ed reports, J-schools are adding "new media" concentrations and programs to their repertoire. That's right: THEY'LL TEACH YOU HOW TO BLOG.
Newspapers have figured out that they need web content, and they're desperate for it. So they take reporters and repurpose them as bloggers. Makes sense, right? Not really. As it turns out, blogging isn't the same thing as reporting, and many of these reporters are bad and out-of-touch bloggers. Case in point? As …
Hand-wringing Cornell alums will meet to discuss the Future of Journalism, which ain't looking so bright: "The New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Times and countless smaller newspapers across the US have recently laid off reams of staff members and seen massive…
The correction for Jane Garmey's Wall Street Journal article about some gardens is so long and varied that it leaves us wondering: did she get anything right at all? Therefore, we're inducting her into our Corrections Hall of Fame! (NYT corrections queen Alessandra Stanley is saving her a seat.) Click to see the…
Woof! Our plagiarism dog is on the case, sniffing out copying. Journalism students at NYU are launching NYU Local, a "24-hour" campus news blog, and are plagiarism trouble already. An article from the official campus newspaper, Washington Square News, was on their site as a placeholder before pre-launch. But they put…
Tasty former Gawker chief and current New York Observer scribe Choire Sicha did his best to squeeze something interesting out of Saved by the Bell person Elizabeth Berkley in a freelance interview for The Los Angeles Times, but his editors were having none of it. Choire says on his website that they cut this bit from…
