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more about #valleywag contradicto: What's with the tiny Business Insider link at the bottom of this post? more » sfBirdie: Yelp is useful, but you have to read reviews with an open mind - especially in the Bay Area. Many of the 'Yelp Elite' reviewers take the title way to... more » DennyCrane: Boutros, Boutros, golly! more » raincoaster: The older Yelp gets, the more closely it resembles a cheesy freebie newspaper, the kind with 50-year-old jokes to keep the ad columns apart. The longe... more » resipsaloquacious: Henry Blodget? Really? more » bodegacat: He hasn't mentioned the most egregious task: the intern must also speak in Nachtwey's native Turkey Latin. To wit: Nachtwey nexploitsey the notogra... more » Mike D.: The privilege of getting your foot in the door at an extremely successful brand is its own reward. Ask the 8 low-paid interns working for my departmen... more » raincoaster: And this differs from Gawker intern ads because? more » deardearfriend: Hahaha, jerks! Now, all kidding aside, can I use your names as references...no?? more » T-Gawk: Actually, he is asking for some fairly basic studio skills and familiarity. Even if the intern had "employee level" skills, she/he would likely never... more » louise: I worked for a talent agency over 30 years ago as an "agent trainee." We were paid so little I qualified for food stamps. Those who survived were rich... more » freedc: This isn't that bad, except he wants them to have too high a skill level. I had a similar unpaid internship years ago and it was excellent. But it w... more » Poodle_Heart: Fucking awesome. Bring it. No more slave labor. more » InfoMofo: Maybe it's because I don't work in that industry, but I'm failing to muster the outrage here. It's a job listing for an unpaid internship, being tota... more » TheSometimesWhy: The ancient Greek historian Thucydides said it best when asked to intern at a little gyros shop that was right next to the goat pass at Thermopylae: "... more » 06jlr: Top British universities banned the listing of unpaid internships at their schools as a way of pushing back against the free labor movement to avoid b... more » mjwoodhead: Perhaps the photographer should talk to his lawyer since he's likely in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act which prohibits using unpaid interns... more » BettyCrocker: Captain Picard And The Missing Dilithium Crystals more » Bristol Cities: It took me years to learn those programs and acquire the skills requested. I still wouldn't do it for less than $75 an hour. Dude, if no one takes you... more » MyrtleWilloughby: Back in my day, the unpaid photo internships included helping a young photojournalist shlep her bags by bike as she rushed to the scene. It was one da... more » -
#media
The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp, officially announced their new "digital storefront" for magazines and stuff. Buy it and put it on your E-reader! Are you sick of E-readers yet? You will be! And you'll be using one. More » -
#layoffs
Print Refugees Laid Off by Web Site That Was Supposed to Save Them
Oyster.com, a hotel-rating site that launched just five months ago with the aim of hiring real journalists—ones who got laid off from all the real journalism jobs—is laying off a bunch of people. The lifeboat is sinking. More » -
#theinternet
AOL's Big Plan: Robot Traffic Whoring
The internet needs more hot search keyword-driven advertorial "content" about as much as the internet needs AOL. So, welcome to the "linchpin" of AOL's growth strategy: Hot search keyword-driven advertorial "content" crap! More » -
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A Glimpse of Google without News Corp.: No Big Loss
The media world is in a (relative) uproar over what the implications of News Corp. pulling its content off Google would be. But! A three-part Gawker investigation-type thing indicates the impact might be quite minimal for you, the consumer. Observe:
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#media
The Coming Search Engine Media Wars
News Corp, ever the online contrarian, is considering pulling all of its news content off of Google and doing an exclusive deal with Microsoft's Bing. For this, Rupert Murdoch would receive a pittance. Welcome to the future of paid media. More » -
#conspiracies
Katie Couric Reveals Who Really Controls the Media
Katie Couric made a list of the "most powerful" people in media for Forbes and they're all... Jews. Kidding, only six of 11 are Jews. The real power belongs to computer nerds. Couric mentioned zero old media people. More » -
#exclusive
The Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted Because Only 0.027% of Iranians Are on Twitter
Remember the storyline about a new Iranian revolution after the elections this summer? The one fuelled by the internet generation? The one that got the state department to intervene to help Iranians Twitter? Not so much.
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#media
Auletta: Google feared buying the NYT would "sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine."
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#media
The Great Newspaper Firewall Is Coming. And?
Newsday is going to start charging for its awful website. One columnist there quit over it. The New York Times says it will make a decision on charging for its (good) website "within weeks." Then what happens? More » -
#media
Can an Online Fan Base Save the New York Times? No.
After the New York Times announced that it's cutting 100 more newsroom jobs, guess what happened, virally? Many commenters begged to be allowed to pay for the paper's online content! Is this the NYT's salvation? Ha, no. More » -
#boyintheballoon
A Goodbye Pizza for Fading Balloon Boy
Just in time for Balloon Boy's all-but-complete disappearance from the national spotlight, the computer geeks at 4chan apparently had a pizza delivered to the kid and his dysfunctional family. Now they're in hiding from the media. More » -
#magic
Newspaper Lady to Explain Internet, In Book
This "The Internet" thing is nice, but we often think: What it really needs is a self-proclaimed arbiter of its cultural relevance to undertake the preposterouslyimpossibleambitious task of explaining the entire internet. In a book. Hello, Virginia Heffernan! More » -
#theellies
Fancy Magazine Awards Open to Riff-Raff
Even as the magazine industry has crumbled in the Great Magazine Die-Off, publishers have always been able to assure themselves: "At least we're the only ones who can win National Magazine Awards." ¡No mas! Now, even we're eligible. More » -
#successstories
U Can Haz Cheezburgur, World Dominashun, LOLZ at Other Starupz KTHXBYE
The I Can Haz Cheezburger guy, Ben Huh, got an AdAge profile. They've got 21 full-time employees, 30 blogs, and 11.5M visitors a month. They were profitable in their first quarter "almost entirely via ad networks and Google AdSense." [AdAge] -
#thefeds
The Federal Trade Commission's Coming War on Bloggers
The FTC is planning public hearings aimed at figuring out how to prop up dying newspapers. On the agenda: tax breaks for news organizations, changing copyright law, and "greater public funding of public affairs news." This is very, very bad. More » -
#google
Google, The World's Solar Savior?
Google was once happy to help us find things on the wild, wild web. The company has obviously grown past that point, but could it soon be savior of the entire world? Possibly and probably. More » -
#rights
Chinese Government Closes In On Anonymous Commenters
Hey, Commenters! Wouldn't that suck if you had to comment under your real names? The New York Times reports today that the Chinese government issued a confidential edict last month: commenters on China's news sites must use their real identities.
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#videogames
Grand Theft Auto's $20 Million Screw Up
Remember the hidden sex scene in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? It was a terrible, amoral departure from the game's official content of endless murder rampages. And it's going to cost publisher Take-Two Interactive an astonishing $20 million. More » -
#layoffs
UPDATE: Salon Lays Off Six In Pursuit of Becoming a 'True Web Publication'
Salon has laid off eightsix editorial staffers—or 20% of its editorial staff—so that, in the words of CEO Richard Gingras, it can become "more of a true Web publication." Welcome to the internet, Salon! More » -
#moguls
You Will Soon Pay to Access All of Rupert Murdoch's Online Rubbish
Rupert Murdoch announced plans yesterday to charge for online access to all of News Corp's media properties. Coincidentally, the company posted a $203 million loss for its fourth quarter, down from a profit of $1.1 billion from the same period last year. More »
