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mysteries
Apple: Den of Secrets
It looks as though Apple did a good job angering the New York Times with the news that Steve Jobs recently underwent a liver transplant. The paper's Tuesday edition dedicates two pieces to Apple's renowned penchant for shadiness. More »
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Comment by ChillbearLatrigue: "It's not that difficult to imagine Apple doing the same thing when Jobs eventually dies..." Don't you mean "if Jobs eventually... 11 Responses | Other threads
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branding
The Sultriest Wall Street Journal Headcut Ever
The Wall Street Journal is fronting its new "Speakeasy" website with perhaps the sultriest headcut it has ever run, a stipple portrait of hotshot young reporter Rebecca Dana. At least the paper nailed one part of it's blogging strategy! More »
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By Ryan TateComment by ms.conniving: Is that a popped collar or merely an attempt to cover up that chin? 3 Responses | Other threads
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media wars
News Corp. Would Like to Renew Its MySpace Deal with 'Parasite' Google
News Corporation Chairman Rupert Murdoch has referred to Google "stealing" or "taking" his copyright. His Wall Street Journal lieutenant Robert Thomson has likened the company to a "parasite or tech tapeworm." But now News Corp. needs to renegotiate a lucrative MySpace ad deal with Google. Whoops. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Turd Ferguson: And with that, Rupert sent out the Silver Surfer to find him another world to devour... 2 Responses | Other threads
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apple
Market Shrugs Off Reports of Steve Jobs' Imminent Return to Apple
Steve Wozniak told a Wall Street Journal reporter his Apple co-founder Steve Jobs sounds "healthy, energetic," signaling the CEO will return from medical leave at the end of June as planned. The market wasn't particularly interested. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by sample032: That chart looks just like QQQQ from 12 to 4. [www.google.com] Which means, yes, the news was leaked. 3 Responses | Other threads
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wtf
WSJ Conference Opens with a Serenade to Rupert Murdoch
We'll admit, there were some funny lines in this serenade to Rupert Murdoch at the Wall Street Journal's "D" event. But isn't buttering up the boss at the absolute beginning of your tech conference a little blatant? More »
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By Ryan TateComment by GORDONGARTRELLE: My kingdom for a virtual barfbag. more » | Other threads
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bloglash
Bloomberg Forbids Mentioning Competitors, or Linking to Them
Bloomberg has distributed a policy to newsroom staff on blogging, Twittering and Facebook updating. And in keeping with the company's tyrannical management culture, the rules are far more authoritarian than similar admonitions recently dispensed at the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and elsewhere. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by lawnsprinkler: Not linking offsite sounds like the kind of forward-thinking policy that will allow old media to compete with the undisciplined... 1 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The WSJ's Twitterati Break All the Rules
Oh, the rebellious minions of Rupert Murdoch! The Wall Street Journal has issued precious new rules for how its reporters and editors must conduct themselves on social networks. They are, of course, being ignored. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by DeltaGuy: I don't normally use Gawker comments to complain about content on the site, but really, this is the fifth Twitter... more » | Other threads
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media wars
Outrage: WSJ In Blog Duplicity Scandal
As any political campaign manager knows, sanctimonious attacks only invite a more outraged rebuttal. The Wall Street Journal's Google-slamming editor just learned how quickly anger boomerangs online. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Aaron Altman: Or when the shoe starts out on the other foot in Thomson's mouth. 2 Responses | Other threads
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the chart
Debunking the AP's Aggregation Aggravation
Online aggregators are financial vampires sucking the lifeblood out of the news business! You know — evil digital upstarts like the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and the New York Times. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by UmaGaleo: But the chart supports the newspapers' central complaint: Papers' sites would still get traffic without search engines. But those search... 2 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Refugees in Chad Could Have Used That Soup, Twitter Lady
What did the media overshare today? Jennifer 8. Lee thought about high school reunions instead of Snapple, Today's Ann Curry toured refugee camps, and Fast Company's Ellen McGirt got down with a lot of leather. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by MissCast: Jennifer 8 Lee, New Jersey. Sorry, couldn't help myself. 2 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
The Twitterati Are Totally Losing It
Today, a media elite replete with tweets thought about all the things they no longer have. And boy, did Wired's editor get mad at a Danish reporter! Also, food, food, and more food: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by miss_msry: Sorry, but if you are Twittering on Twitter you're a Twitt. 1 Responses | Other threads
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nerdfight
Wall Street Journal "confused" by Google's evil behavior
It's a classic geek insult: A Google executive has called the Wall Street Journal "confused" about its stance on whether companies should be able to buy themselves a fast lane on the Internet. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Moonshine Mike: At first I was not shocked, but if they claim this is no different than Akamai, then why should it... 3 Responses | Other threads
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Business Media
"Wall Street" Part of Wall Street Journal Increasingly Meaningless
Robert Thomson, the wily Aussie installed by Rupert Murdoch as editor of the Wall Street Journal, wants his newspaper to be big in Japan. And Europe. And Chicago. And Los Angeles.
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By Owen ThomasComment by cassandra: Thomson is Australian, not British. I'm not sure how that affects your illusory "wiliness" matrix but it's worth getting it... 1 Responses | Other threads
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meltdowns
It's Wall Street Journal official: we're all gonna die
What little hope I had was crushed by the WSJ this morning. Under the non-alarmist headline, "Tech Shares May Fall Further," the Journal lists every single reason the tech industry is screwed. If you can make it through the first fourteen stomach-churning paragraphs, there's this one ray of semi-hope: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by abettertomorrow: @sample32: the journalistic theme is generally GOOG='good','heroic','market leader','winner' and YHOO='missed the boat','loser','mis-managed' but - YTD - YHOO has marginally out performed... 1 Responses | Other threads
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Camp Cyprus
MySpace DJ taunts Wall Street Journal reporter
Poor Jessica Vascellaro. The Wall Street Journal reporter will never be able to live down the video she and several Webhead friends recorded on a Cyprus vacation. The song-and-dance number was controversial as a sign of bubble-era excess — and as an indication that Vascellaro might be rather too close to the companies she covers. Last night, as Vascellaro partied at the MySpace Music party, the DJ put on "Don't Stop Believing" — the same Journey song which provided the soundtrack to their seaside frolics. Kara Swisher has video from the party: More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by NickDentonMumsBum: wn hts brsts. Y'r gy. K. K. W gt t wn. Y ht Bbs. Htrs. Jgs. Gzmbs. Grn Ttns. Jggly Wggls.... 2 Responses | Other threads
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Fright Masks
Kara Swisher, obnoxious AllThingsD blogger
How to wear it: Soccer mom meets Castro lesbian, with a denim shirt and blue jeans. Oh, and a Pure Digital Flip camera. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Melissa Gira Grant: Owen, tsk! "Castro lesbian"? I mean, it's not like I've even seen Kara at the Lex -- I'm not saying... 2 Responses | Other threads
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caption contest
On Sequoia's firing line
What plots are the members of "Camp Cyprus," a group of young webheads, cooking up? Perhaps we'll read about them in a Wall Street Journal front-page A-hed, since reporter Jessica Vascellaro was on the scene, along with Wall Street-scion boyfriend Sam Lessin, the CEO of Drop.io. Can you think of a better caption? Leave it in the comments; the best one will become the new headline of the post. Yesterday's winner: TheChris2.0, for "McCain and Whitman unveil Social Security plan." (Photo by Sam Lessin) -
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WSJ reporter parties in Cyprus with people she covers
You can never escape the media! Valleywag's favorite hot-tech-company couple, Facebooker Dave Morin and Googler Brittany Bohnet, weren't vacationing in Cyprus alone. A whole group, "Campcyprus," attended the get-together in the Mediterranean island's Turkish-controlled sector. And who was in the in crowd? Wall Street Journal reporter Jessica Vascellaro, who covers Facebook and Google, and her startup-founder boyfriend, Drop.io CEO Sam Lessin, the son of ultrawealthy investment banker Bob Lessin. Sam, who's normally obsessed with privacy, posted this photo of the couple. So cute! More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by ShyamalikaHespera: Where's the Caroline McCarthy David Karp story? 3 Responses | Other threads
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deathwatch
Barry Diller's finance site: "Completely pointless"
FiLife, a personal-finance site backed by IAC and the Wall Street Journal, is struggling, according to one ex-employee we eavesdropped on at the City Bakery, a coffeehouse in Manhattan's Flatiron neighborhood, as she interviewed for a new job. "The business model completely changed," she said. "It used to be personal finance for people in their 20s and 30s. Now it's just completely pointless." An embittered writer? Perhaps. FiLife hired a batch of journalists, only to switch gears shortly before launch and realize that the Web didn't need another content site. But their replacement — a set of automated tools to evaluate one's place in the financial pecking order — do seem pointless. The site only attracts 31,500 users a month. In this regard, FiLife is utterly typical — of both its backer and its genre. More » -
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Newspaper websites reap windfall traffic as drought hits Wall Street
The Dow Jones Industrial Average is more like the "Down Jones" this week, with major financial firms folding left and right. But there are two big winners — the websites of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. While the Journal might not have picked the most auspicious time to launch a redesign, its site racked up record traffic on Monday. As did the Times on Tuesday. [Beet.tv] -
blogging for dollars
The Valley's Wall Street disconnect
Wall Street is melting down. But from sampling the thoughts of tech bloggers on Techmeme, an automated news aggregator, you'd think that the biggest story today was a redesign of WSJ.com. One couldn't ask for a clearer sign of the Valley's superficial obsession with user interfaces and online advertising. With Lehman Brothers going bankrupt, Bank of America negotiating to buy Merrill, and AIG desperately selling off assets, who, exactly, will be having their employer pay so they can read the headlines on WSJ.com, let alone advertising there? Yet the problem goes far deeper than one website's newly glossy surface. More » -
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Business pubs get more stylish, social to appeal to Facebookers
The venerable Wall Street Journal has given up trying to age gracefully after being purchased by News Corp., and today the bandages will come off on a facelift that took six months to complete. The main difference will be that non-subscribers will get a more general-interest homepage full of links to free lifestyle content, while subscribers will have the page tailored to emphasize business news. But sixty percent of the site's traffic never sees the homepage, and pageviews-per-unique visit are actually falling. So bring on the social network! More » -
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Got money to burn? New Wall Street Journal mag is for you
Everyone who reads blogs all day knows that newspapers and magazines are doomed, sinking ships, right? Not if you've got money to spend. Saturday's Wall Street Journal will include a new quarterly lifestyle magazine called WSJ. — yes, with a period, just to annoy Owen. What's in it? More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by sample032: Maybe there's a market for a medium free of commentards. Some people would pay good money to not put up with... 2 Responses | Other threads
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the sum of all human knowledge
Mainstream media in edit war over Jimmy Wales's waistline
The world's most respected business newspaper and an elite fashion industry magazine disagree on this most basic of facts: Is Wikipedia cofounder Jimmy Wales pudgy or not? James Gleick, writing in the Wall Street Journal, says that Wales is "a trim 42-year-old who favors black shirts and a slightly Mephistophelian beard." W Magazine described him as "a nondescript man with thinning brown hair and a slight paunch." Which is it? His Wikipedia entry is absolutely no use on the subject. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by thekohser: I posted my reply to Jimbo on his Campaigns Wikia carcass of a site. But, just in case he or... more » | Other threads
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layoffs
Wall Street Journal cuts hit tech beat
Even as the New York Times staffs up its technology bureau, the Wall Street Journal is cutting back — at least on some of its higher-priced names. Among the names of layoff victims supplied by a tipster: Jason Fry, online Real Time columnist, and George Anders, author of Perfect Enough, the definitive business biography of former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.
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By Owen ThomasComment by bugz321: Remember, WSJ is owned by Rupert Murdoch now. They have no use for technology but you can bet you'll be... more » | Other threads
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yahoo raid
Fake Jerry Yang responds to the New York Times — the 20-word version
With Fake Steve Jobs on sabbatical, Fake Jerry Yang has picked up the slack to chime in on Joe Nocera's scathing open letter in the New York Times. Shortly before the vulgarities is this little gem, which says more about the New York media landscape than it does about the Microsoft-Yahoo-Google three-way: More » -
d6 live coverage
The passive-aggressive passion of Kara Swisher
Attempting to edit down Kara Swisher's epic two-part behind-the-scenes opus on the making of D6 into something more manageable, it was hard not to note a certain passive aggression. The deadpan delivery of criticisms quickly couched as attempts at humor, the needling of uncomfortable minions with the constant gaze of her camera and, above all, more than a little envy when it comes to the status her colleague at the Wall Street Journal Walt Mossberg enjoys. At one point, she even asks a staffer who grants access to the conference, "Are you dangling hope and then snatching it away, which was our instruction?" Yes, yes they are. -
d6 live coverage
Invading D6, the Wall Street Journal's posh pooh-bah conference
CARLSBAD, CA — D, the Wall Street Journal schmoozefest which opened today with a round of golf at the Four Seasons Aviara Resort, is not the conference for the rest of us. It attracts a host of tech and media CEOs who agree to be harangued onstage by Walt Mossberg, the sexagenarian of sexy gadgets, and Kara Swisher, the diminutive media commentaterrorist of AllThingsD.com. In exchange, they get to seem classy and witty, if only by comparison. It is the sort of elite event to which Valleywag is not invited. We showed up anyway. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Jeremy: I'm sure if you asked Kara nicely, she'd let you in. You're like Sally Fields that way - people DO... more » | Other threads
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rupert murdoch
Old Man In A Hurry
Rupert Murdoch's 78th year has been busy. With the exit of the Wall Street Journal's native managing editor, Marcus Brauchli, the Australian media mogul's lieutenant now has a free hand to turn the business newspaper into a broader national title. We're hearing this afternoon that Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman has dropped out of the bidding for Newsday, clearing the way for Murdoch's News Corporation to take control of a third newspaper in the New York market. And the New York Post is this week shrinking to allow the News Corporation tabloid to be produced on the same presses as the Journal. But here's the question: why the rush? There are three main reasons: newspaper publishing economics; the broader synergies available to a media group with heightened political influence; and mortality. More »
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By Nick DentonComment by Nick Denton: @fasdunaroawerm: Oh, very clever. No, really, very clever. more » | Other threads
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quotable
Mossberg denies he bleated iPhone release date
"If I knew [the release date for the new iPhone], why would I announce it in the middle of a sentence at the Finnish embassy, rather than report it in the Wall Street Journal?" — mid-six-figure-salary Journal gadgeteer Walt Mossberg, on earning his keep. Left unanswered: What was he doing at the Finnish embassy in the first place? [Silicon Alley Insider]
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Comment by fishneversleep: @matto: finnish mafia media conspiracy. but you're on the right track. more » | Other threads
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media
Google and Yahoo, meet your new WSJ beat reporter
The Wall Street Journal's Jessica Vascellaro is moving from New York to Silicon Valley to take over the Google and Yahoo beat. Watch out, Eric Schmidt and Jerry Yang: Vascellaro's article on the rift between Liberty Media's John Malone and IAC's Barry Diller helped spawn a nasty lawsuit between the moguls. [Silicon Alley Insider] -
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Want to write about Google for the Wall Street Journal? The job's open
Kevin Delaney, the Wall Street Journal's Google and Yahoo beat reporter, is decamping from the Valley to New York to take a deputy editor gig at WSJ.com, we hear. A perk of the job: Getting to disclose Google's business relationships with Journal parent company News Corp. in every story. -
great moments in journalism
Salon shares secrets to get around Wall Street Journal's pay wall — but not its own
In an article on Salon's Machinist blog today, Farhad Manjoo gives tips for getting around the Wall Street Journal's paid-subscription barrier. WSJ.com allows some featured articles to be read for free, but puts much of its content behind what's known in the business as a "pay wall." The dirty secret Manjoo exposes: Many of the "hidden" articles can be easily accessed with a little technical know-how. What he doesn't stop to ask: Why has new Journal owner Rupert Murdoch made it so easy? More »
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hackers
Hackers could shut down your pacemaker
Medical researchers were able to deliver shocks and stop a Medtronic pacemaker without using the control box. The box, sold only to the doctors of pacemaker recipients, communicates with the device via radio waves. But the lab workers were able to duplicate the signals remotely, and figured out how to get the private medical information from it as well. Just think of the fun some really creepy people could have with spinal cord simulators and drug delivery pumps! [Wall Street Journal] -
wall street journal
There Are No Chicks On YouTube
While men dominate YouTube, women are almost twice as likely to use video sites run by TV networks, according to Nielsen Online results reported by the Journal. Before you draw any conclusions about men leading the New Media revolution, remember that they're just watching the Sarah Silverman clip from Jimmy Kimmel.
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By Nick DouglasComment by VirusWithShoes: @ragepotato: And so, another writer is born! Congrats! The shortburst joys will somewhat temper her lifelong pain. more » | Other threads
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clips
Wall Street Journal nerds out with LAN party video
Rupert Murdoch has clearly issued a diktat: The Wall Street Journal must now cater to the Slashdot crowd. And Andy Jordan has simperingly scampered to obey. On the front of WSJ.com's Technology section: "Andy Jordan hangs out at a LAN party, where caffeine-fueled videogamers battle till the wee hours of the morning." Jordan follows the pasty gamers to the local deli, hears from the lone Mac user who unplugs a comrade's computer after getting killed in-game, and finds out who consumes seemingly 90 percent of all energy drinks. This is the kind of high-level reporting we expect from the paper with which Murdoch hopes to beat the New York Times. Here's the video: More »
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Comment by elvenjewel: Video game parties. Now being covered -- nay, filmed! -- by the WSJ. Was thought involved here? more » | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
Yahoo, unscripted
In-the-know journalists like to tell readers that the Microsoft-Yahoo merger has been plotted out in advance. "Microsoft executives have followed a carefully crafted script to woo Yahoo's board and management," writes the Wall Street Journal. "Yahoo's directors must follow closely a long-established script," a story on CNNMoney informs us. The notion of a script — understood by elite reporters and insiders who graciously expatiate it to their eager readers — is appealing. But as the writers' strike proved to us, we live in an unscripted era. The Microsoft-Yahoo deal is M&A in the age of reality TV. More » -
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Rupert putting "special things" behind WSJ subscription wall
News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch, speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, commented on the future of the Wall Street Journal website: "We are going to greatly expand and improve the free part of The Wall Street Journal online, but there will still be a strong offering" for subscribers.The really special things will still be a subscription service, and, sorry to tell you, probably more expensive."
This likely means more articles will be free, but what will end up in the subscription-only section — behind the paywall, in blogger jargon? Our money is on a 24/7 Walt Mossberg/Justin.tv lifecast — a live, streaming, online video "documenting" Uncle Walt's life. We'd pay at least $5.95 a month for that.
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wall street journal
When newspaper reporters were hot — the 100-word version
Helicopters. Hot metal print. Faked photos. Police scanners and running engines. Even if you're not a journalism wonk, outgoing Wall Street Journal managing editor Paul Steiger's recap of his years in the golden age of newspaper reporting is an engaging read, all 2,963 words of it. If you just want the dirt, I've pullquoted Steiger's dead-bird story, plus the time he asked for a helicopter to do some reporting. Does Pajamas Media have one of those? More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by deathbychichi: Gawker Media bloggers are authorized to do all the flying they need to do to bag a big story --... more » | Other threads
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forecasts
Valleywag's 25 predictions for 2008
Valleywag is of course known for its dead-on accuracy, so our predictions for 2008 need no introduction. Inside, my 25 predictions (made without inside information) cover the futures of Facebook, Google, Digg, YouTube, Twitter, the Wall Street Journal, Apple, Yahoo, Gawker Media, AOL, Dell, LOLcats, the president, and more. More »
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