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Want to Hear What Katie Couric Said Yesterday? Don’t Read Portfolio

in Media on November 13, 2008 at 9:57 am PT

How serious is media investment group Quadrangle about keeping its annual Foursquare conference private? Serious enough that the only account I’ve seen of it stayed live on the Web for just a few hours yesterday. Portfolio.com media blogger Jeff Bercovici posted a short item about one of the panels yesterday afternoon; later that evening, the story had disappeared.

Katie Couric: I Got Help Before My Sarah Palin Interviews

in Media on November 12, 2008 at 4:43 pm PT

Notes from Quadrangle’s Foursquare hush-hush media and tech conference: CBS anchor Katie Couric says she consulted former senator Sam Nunn and Council on Foreign Relations president Richard Haas before her now-famous interrogation of the VP candidate.

Shhhhhh! Media, Tech Moguls Meeting Today. Don’t Tell Anyone!

in Media on November 11, 2008 at 8:08 am PT

Under normal circumstances, if the CEOs of big companies like Cisco, Microsoft, and Comcast speak in front of an audience of bigwigs, it’s news. But you’re unlikely to hear what John Chambers, Steve Ballmer and Brian Roberts say today and tomorrow at Quadrangle’s Foursquare conference–no press allowed. Unless…