22 posts and columns on Politico

I was delighted to read about your interest in sharing the big screen with me. As you can imagine, I am a little occupied at the moment, but perhaps someday I can help you forget Sarah Marshall … again. My only condition is that there be Muppets involved, and that is non-negotiable.

– Hillary Clinton, in reply to Jason Segel’s joking remarks to Jimmy Fallon and Us Weekly about the Secretary of State starring in a movie with him

BuzzFeed Bulks Up Again, With a Tech Section Run by Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan

in Media on January 30 at 4:18 pm PT

Another well-known writer for a site that used to specialize in other people’s writing. This one says he’ll write about “tech for humans.”
matt buchanan

Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users’ Political Sentiments

in Social on January 12 at 11:02 am PT

A partnership between Facebook and Politico announced today is one of the more far-reaching efforts to understand how social media users feel about U.S. election candidates.
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News Byte

Buzzfeed Raises $15 Million to Make More Buzzy Content

in Media on January 9 at 8:37 am PT

News aggregator/newsmaker Buzzfeed has raised a $15.5 million C round led by New Enterprise Associates. The New York-based site, run by Huffington Post co-founder Jonah Peretti, also features HuffPo co-founder Ken Lerer as investor and chairman, and former HuffPo sales boss Greg Coleman has joined as a board advisor. The site recently signaled its intent to generate more of its own content, designed to be flung around users’ social networks, by hiring Politico blogger Ben Smith to beef up its editorial ranks.

Facebook, MoveOn Vets Working on Mystery Media Start-Up for Lefties

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.
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News Byte

Yahoo's Envoy Joins Diplomatic Discussion

in News on March 10, 2011 at 11:53 am PT

Yahoo today launched the latest addition to its growing stable of original blogs–The Envoy, which will cover foreign affairs with Laura Rozen, most recently chief foreign policy reporter for Politico, at the helm. Yahoo now has 23 original blogs across its news, sports and entertainment coverage, and said that in February, monthly traffic to those sites topped 550 million page views for the first time.

Demand Media’s Richard Rosenblatt and ProPublica’s Paul Steiger Live at D8

in D8 on June 3, 2010 at 9:10 am PT

What’s the future of the media business? Demand Media, the Google-savvy “content farm” that generates thousands of computer-assigned, low-cost Web items a day? Or ProPublica, a nonprofit that produces deep-dive investigative pieces and publishes them on its own site and in the pages of high-profile partners? Good guess: Some of both. But let’s allow both parties to make their own case.
Richard Rosenblatt and Paul Steiger

President Clinton Talks About His Internet Legacy (BTW, He's an iPhone Dude, While the GOP's #41 Is a BlackBerry Teen)

in News on March 18, 2010 at 12:38 am PT

Here is a video I did of former President Bill Clinton talking at an event related to the 25th anniversary of the first .com registration. Clinton gave a speech first–which was, inexplicably, about health-care legislation and global warming. But after Clintion was done, he sat down with VeriSign CEO Mark McLaughlin to talk about a range of Web-related topics, in a very amusing exchange.

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

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.
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Voices

Startup Tries to Rally Publishers with Ad-Sharing Proposal

in News on April 22, 2009 at 4:39 am PT

A Silicon Valley startup and handful of publishers have a new plan to bring peace to the war between Web sites and media companies accusing them of stealing their content. The group, which includes Reuters and smaller online publishers like Politico, wants companies that broker advertising to Web sites to give them a share of the revenue from ads they sell alongside full copies of their content.

Obama’s Post-Election Media Bump: Over

in Media, November 13, 2008 at 4:30 am PT