The Daily Publishes Its Photo of Maybe-Nikki Finke
The Daily has published its photograph of the elusive Nikki Finke, dramatically driving a Toyota and looking kind of angry! Is it her?
Is the Elusive Nikki Finke on the Verge of Being Revealed to the World?
For years, a current photo of the reclusive and bilious blog empress Nikki Finke has been the holy grail of people who care about Nikki Finke. It now appears that such a photo exists, and may be published soon. But Nikki says it's not her.
Mark Zuckerberg 'Handcuffed and Took Advantage of Us'
Just when you thought the Winklevoss twins' jihad against Facebook couldn't get more ridiculous, they give an aggressively homoerotic video interview to The Daily. Watch the Teutonic twins pump iron, flex butt cheeks, and flaunt nipples to an action movie soundtrack.
Kathleen Parker Definitively Proven to Drive Away TV Viewers
In your buggy Monday media column: Kathleen Parker's exact worth is pinpointed, the HuffPo-AOL merger dissection and fallout begins, complaints about The Daily increase, and beware of Al Jazeerans attempting to infiltrate America via television screens.
Why Let a Gabrielle Giffords Interview Go to Waste?
The Daily happened to interview Gabrielle Giffords about her love for her iPad, before she was shot. Today, they finally get to run the interview, with a new angle: her iPad is helping her speech therapy! Huzzah for repackaging! Blech.
Comment of the Day: What Do We Call an iPad 'Newspaper'?
Today we witnessed the unveiling of The Daily, the first-ever news publication made solely for tablets. Of course we're tempted to call this a newspaper, but since there's no paper, what's a more accurate name? One commenter had an idea.
NPR Seeks Candidate for Media's Most Thankless Job
In your undesirable Wednesday media column: NPR needs another Ellen Weiss, blogs are dead or possibly thriving, the Newsweek-Daily Beast merger is going about as well as expected, and Fox News establishes its priorities.
[]The iPad Newspaper is Here
Rupert Murdoch and his team at News Corp., plus third-string Apple executive Eddy Cue, just unveiled the much-hyped iPad newspaper, The Daily, in New York. It's got video, big pictures, embedded Twitter, and updates that "break in" to the app.
HuffPo Will Regret The Day it Started 'Firing' Unpaid Bloggers
In your yet-another-synonym-for-"snowy" Wednesday media column: HuffPo no longer cool, The Daily's latest launch date, Demand Media's distressingly popular, Michael Cohen leaves the Village Voice, Newsday hires people, and Brian Lehrer's a reasonable guy.
[Photo ]The iPad Newspaper Will Be Delayed for Weeks
News Corp's iPad newspaper The Daily was all set to unveil itself dramatically in San Francisco next week. Now the launch is being delayed "weeks, not months" in order to let Apple tweak its new subscription service. Shoot. [Media Memo]
Steve Jobs Will Help Launch the iPad Newspaper
Steve Jobs will reportedly show up at the launch of Rupert Murdoch's The Daily. With Murdoch's News Corp. sinking a reported $30 million into a product designed specifically for Jobs' iPad, it seems like the least Apple's CEO could do.
Tina Brown to Keep Newsweek Crappy Until April
In your wary Monday media column: Newsweek has a "sweeping redesign" coming, Ed Rendell vs. 60 Minutes, Piers Morgan will have at least one good week, post-"Giffords Dies" soul searching, and The Daily is nearly here.
Emmanuelle Alt Takes Over French Vogue
In your arctic Friday media column: French Vogue's new editor, Hearst and Lagardere reportedly set a price, a Boston Herald columnist comes out to cheers, Tiger Woods is no longer a "columnist," and The Daily (the other one) changes hands.
The iPad Newspaper Has a Rude Web Server
Rupert Murdoch's iPad newspaper, The Daily, finally has a classy internet domain, TheDaily.com, from which to promote itself later this month. But the site's "coming soon" greeting is not so nice.
Cute Little Magazine Publisher Thinks He's Being Provocative by Railing Against Internet
In your snippy Friday media column: Rick MacArthur has a thing or two to say about this "internet," the NYT's slo-mo exodus, The Daily gets a launch date, and Dave Price looks and writes like a nice guy.
[Pic: ]Salon: Oh Yeah, We've Been Trying to Sell Ourselves Forever
In your merry Monday media column: Salon's staff memo on today's news, Virginia Heffernan's dream comes true, The Daily eschews Republicinsanity, WSJ. vs. T magazine, and David Carr feels the love.
[Photo: Shutterstock]Why the iPad Newspaper is Doomed
Rupert Murdoch is putting $30 million and 100 journalists behind an iPad newspaper called "The Daily." He even has support from Apple CEO Steve Jobs. But no one really believes this thing will last. Here's why.
Contributors Call Time Out New York 'Serially Delinquent' With Payments
In your penniless Monday media column: TONY freelancers say they're being stiffed, NPR is afraid of the public's emails, The Daily may have to fight for its name, and Whoopi vs. O'Reilly, round two.
[Cover photo by: Allison Michael Orenstein]Every Reporter Everywhere Headed to The Daily
Two more recruits to The Daily News Corp's iPad news project: Hunter Walker (formerly of The Wrap) to the gossip beat; and, we hear, former sextacular NY Post-ie and current UrbanDaddy editor Justin Rocket Silverman. Woo.
