For the first time in half a decade, a foreign journalist is being effectively expelled from China, as punishment for her coverage of the government’s handling of ethnic violence in the country’s western Muslim region.
“Who owns a multimillion dollar newspaper?” is not a question you hear very often. But with the shrouded sale of the largest paper in Nevada, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, to an undisclosed owner, the question is being asked over and over.
In an effort to improve tense relations between Mitt Romney's campaign and the press, the Republican candidate's travel press secretary Richard Gortka got in a loud fight with members of the media today.
Both the Mirror and the Daily Mail have dug up some info about the scruffy seafarer spotted last week with Amanda "Foxy Acquittedknoxy" Knox. His name is James Terrano, he studies classical guitar, and he's already living with her, in sin.
Poor Barack Obama. The press once fawned over his ever move, word and action, but those days are over, for coverage of his presidency has grown increasingly negative. But, don't worry, because he's still on top.
This week in press tours: Seth Rogen! Poor guy's been doing the rounds all week promoting his new movie Observe & Report and all anyone wants to talk about is that he lost some weight.
Richard Martin, the crazy old super in Bay Ridge who enjoys posting abusive signs about his tenants and filling his lobby with garbage to teach them all a lesson, is now aiming his strongly worded sign-based commentary at the free press. The newly minted media critic has taken aim at Daily News reporter Matthew…
From the New York Times:
Live, from PopTech — well, not quite. A few days ago, organizers from PopTech 2006, the multimedia futurist conference that started last night, told press-pass-carrying journalists:
With co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, Jawed Karim founded YouTube. That, and making a few million here and there, are the only interesting things about him.
Of course the headline is an obvious statement on the buck-passing execs and investigators at Hewlett-Packard over an allegedly fradulent leak investigation scandal, but am I the only one who wants these guys to get into a poking match?
The New York Times takes a stab at turning the Windows testing program into a Dan Brown thriller with the story lede, "On a whiteboard in a windowless Microsoft conference room here, an elegant curve drawn by a software-testing engineer captures both five years of frustration and more recent progress."
Why's it so great that the New York Post gave writer Sam Gustin a weekly tech column? Because only the Post can dig up the cruddiest image of its subjects, like Yahoo CEO — sorry, "Yahoo boss" — Terry Semel. A tabloid after my own heart.
LA Times October 6, "Google Puts Lid on New Products":
"CEO Eric Schmidt explains what's behind the company's new push for partnerships," promises TIME in its new article, "Google's Chief Looks Ahead." Great, because we've been wondering just that (see "Chaos theory: How to tell if a Google deal means anything" and "Deal or No Deal: Why is Google announcing so many…
Aw man, some shit's going down between blogger Mark Pincus and the Washington Post, and the Tribe.net founder tried to turn it into a story of Old vs. New Media.
Ah, those anti-pedophile hunters. How can anyone criticize them without coming off as a perv-lover? Let's try.
Google recently bought the garage where Sergey Brin and Larry Page built the company after starting it at Stanford. Future employee Anne Wojcicki rented out her garage at 232 Santa Margarita Ave. in Menlo Park, according to San Francisco Magazine.
Amazon's stock will hit $400, predicted analyst Henry Blodget in 1998. It didn't. The stock now trades at $32.14, but Blodget got attention and a job at Merrill Lynch. Never mind that he was a journalist by trade, with no analyst training. One dot-com bomb later, Merrill let him go, Eliot Spitzer charged him with…
