Liz Gannes in Media on December 14, 2011 at 1:45 pm PT
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes is backing a news venture from former MoveOn Executive Director Eli Pariser that they’re calling a “viral media start-up” for progressives.
Peter Kafka in Media on September 20, 2011 at 7:02 am PT
But there’s a whole lot of other stuff on their minds, too. They’d also like to hear from Ron Paul.
Peter Kafka in Media on August 2, 2011 at 7:04 am PT
Fox News Twitter followers click on links about scary stuff. New York Times followers pay attention to basketball. And Economist readers are interested in yogurt.
Ian Sherr, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on July 4, 2011 at 10:23 pm PT
Fox News said hackers broke into one of its Twitter accounts early Monday morning, sending fake messages about President Barack Obama, the latest in a string of brazen attacks that have compromised government and corporate websites around the world.
Kara Swisher in News on April 28, 2011 at 10:19 am PT
Would it surprise you to know that BoomTown doesn’t really care anymore if TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington sidelines as a blogger while he makes investments in tech companies his tech news site covers? Especially after reading his post yesterday that made a good argument about who he is and, frankly, who he has always been.
But that does not mean his boss, AOL content head Arianna Huffington, doesn’t have some
‘splainin’ to do.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 21, 2011 at 8:05 am PT
The Onion lands its second TV show in a month–this one is the pitch-perfect “Onion News Network” on IFC–and we sit down with head writer Carol Kolb.
Peter Kafka in Media on January 7, 2011 at 3:28 pm PT
Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser is still the world’s most popular, but its dominance is being steadily eroded by competition from Mozilla, Google and Apple. Can a new, aggressive approach to privacy change that?
Nat Worden, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on November 18, 2010 at 10:15 pm PT
Time Warner Cable Inc. is rolling out a lower-priced cable TV package called “TV Essentials” that excludes major cable networks like ESPN, Comedy Central, TNT, Fox News, MSNBC, Fox regional sports networks and MSG.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 3, 2010 at 2:53 pm PT
That big Myspace relaunch we read about last week? That’s all fine and good.
But the troubled Web property is a…really troubled Web property, its News Corp. parent stressed today. And it needs to get its act together before it gets kicked off campus.
Kara Swisher in News on October 20, 2010 at 12:34 am PT
It’s a smackdown of chit-chatting ladies, as CBS’s “The Talk” debuted this week, in an attempt to grab audience from the powerhouse daytime ABC talk show “The View.”
It’ll be hard, since those are some tough women on “The View,” which recently was in the spotlight after Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar walked off the set in the middle of a segment with Fox News cable pundit Bill O’Reilly, after he impugned Muslims.
