Larry Kramer

Viral Video: Silicon Valley May Now Officially Blame Larry Kramer for BoomTown

Kara Swisher in News on May 11, 2010 at 5:30 am PT

Larry Kramer, the online journalism pioneer and persistent gadfly, finally took credit where credit is certainly due, in a story he tells of giving me my big break way back in the dark ages. In a video interview with Beet.TV recently, Kramer claims I “scared” him into giving me a stringer job at the Washington Post in the early 1980s. That does sound like me.

Voices

Yahoo: Carol Bartz Live From Stanford Directors' College

Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron's, Tech Trader Daily in News on June 22, 2009 at 4:55 am PT

Ah, Father’s Day. The perfect time to kick back, fire up the grill, grab a cold one and watch a game on the tube, surrounded by the rest of the clan, all catering to your every whim.

The Guardian's Changing Media Summit in London: No Answers There Either!

Kara Swisher in News on March 26, 2009 at 2:33 pm PT

On BoomTown’s recent grand tour of Europe, I paid a visit a week ago to London to moderate some sessions at Media Guardian’s Changing Media Summit 2009. As in the U.S., a lot of the same questions were asked there about when and how the new media business would cross the Rubicon to transform into a strongly profitable and sustainable business. And the answer to that query was just as hard to find as here.

Guardian Media Group Buys paidContent for $30 Million

Kara Swisher in News on July 11, 2008 at 1:14 am PT

In what will be yet another new media coup, sources tell BoomTown that Britain’s Guardian Media Group will announce this morning that it will buy the digital media news site paidContent for a price “north of $30 million.”