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Columbia J-School and Stanford Eng Nab $30M Joint Gift for Media Innovation From Helen Gurley Brown

Kara Swisher in Media on January 30 at 10:00 am PT

Legendary former Cosmo Editor hands over a huge gift to spur new media on both coasts.

Viral Video: "Page One" at Sundance

Kara Swisher in News on January 20, 2011 at 12:39 am PT

One of the more interesting movies at the 11th Sundance Film Festival, which opens today in Park City, Utah, will be “Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times.” The documentary is by Andrew Rossi, who spent a year following reporters and editors at the newspaper, even as the media landscape shifted dramatically due to the impact of digital technologies.

Intern Becomes Real Live Blog Dude–ATD Hires Drake Martinet

Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2010 at 10:29 am PT

It is always nice when an intern makes good, and that is entirely the case with Drake Martinet, who joins All Things Digital–as of yesterday, in fact. We could not be happier. Plus, we knew he was our kind of geek after he agreed to spend the night in a tent next to Robert Scoble, to cover last year’s Apple iPad release. Drake will be working on a range of things for ATD, from social and multimedia efforts to site analytics to discovering and writing about promising but nascent tech start-ups.

ProPublica's Paul Steiger Talks About the Future of Journalism and More! (Plus a Tour)

Kara Swisher in News on December 21, 2009 at 10:30 am PT

Without a doubt, one of the more compelling stories of the last year has been about the dicey fate of traditional journalism and, of course, how it gets paid for (or not). So, on a recent trip to New York, BoomTown dropped in on Paul Steiger, who used to be my boss as managing editor of The Wall Street Journal. Today, Steiger is trying to succeed at what probably is a much more important venture–ProPublica–a nonprofit and independent newsroom that focuses on investigative journalism.

AOL Automates Its Story Factory. Does That Kill an Associated Content Deal?

Peter Kafka in Media on November 30, 2009 at 4:45 am PT

AOL is cutting its payroll by one-third. Now comes its plan to make the remaining employees more productive: New technology that assigns and even edits stories automatically. That sounds an awful lot like Associated Content, a start-up that AOL CEO Tim Armstrong invested in–and considered buying–earlier this year.

The New York Times Explains the Ad Market: Banks Bail, and So Does Hollywood. But Big Pharma Steps Up, and “Modest” Improvement Coming

Peter Kafka in Media on October 23, 2009 at 6:59 am PT

The publisher delivered a pleasant earnings surprise yesterday by cutting costs. Now it’s hoping for a revenue bump, if advertisers will play along.

New York Times Delivers Some Not Terrible News: Earnings, Ad Sales Better Than Expected

Peter Kafka in Media on October 22, 2009 at 5:05 am PT

The New York Times announced plans to cut eight percent of its newsroom payroll this week, citing “economic thunderstorms,” which suggested that this morning’s earnings results were going to be particularly unpleasant. Surprise! They’re not that awful, at least by the diminished standards of the newspaper industry.

New York Times to Sack 100 Staffers

John Paczkowski in News on October 19, 2009 at 12:16 pm PT

If newspapers are suffering a death by 1000 cuts, the next 100 will be made at the New York Times. The company today announced plans to reduce its newsroom staff by eight percent by the end of 2009. Cuts will be made by buyout, but the company will resort to layoffs should its hand be forced.

Washington Post: Our Reporters Aren’t For Sale (Yet)

Peter Kafka in Media on July 2, 2009 at 7:58 am PT

Want access to the Washington D.C. elite? The city’s hometown paper is happy to arrange that for you provided you’re willing to pay between $25,000 and $250,000. The caveat: That fee won’t include access to the Washington Post’s editorial staff. But I bet that will change sooner than later.

Portfolio Lives! Sort Of: Web Site Adopted by Condé Nast’s Corporate Cousin.

Peter Kafka in Media on May 20, 2009 at 7:46 am PT

Never say never: Condé Nast, which is closing down its Portfolio business magazine, has decided not to turn off the lights at Portfolio.com. Instead, it is shifting control of the Web site–essentially, the Portfolio.com address and a couple years of archived content–over to American City Business Journals, its corporate cousin in the Advance Publications family.