News Byte
Kara Swisher in Media on January 20 at 12:30 pm PT
Raju Narisetti, who is currently managing editor of the Washington Post, has been named managing editor of The Wall Street Digital Network. Narisetti, who has worked for the News Corp.-owned WSJ in the past, replaces Kevin Delaney, who recently left the site to start a global business news site venture at Atlantic Media.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 29, 2011 at 10:01 am PT
I used to work for this man and, believe you me, you should listen to what he has to say about the future of news.
Drake Martinet in Commerce on June 9, 2011 at 11:59 am PT
No longer just another pretty domain name, Fab.com launches today as a new deal site for designed goods.
Led by CEO Jason Goldberg, the site’s opening offers are on the sorts of things one might find at a design museum gift shop — fancy plastic chairs, fancy energy saving light bulbs and fancy signed posters.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 21, 2011 at 5:07 pm PT
Amazon seems to be getting control over the outage that brought down its cloud and the Web sites of more companies than we’ll probably ever know. What will be harder is winning back the confidence it has until now enjoyed. The names of victims now include the New York Times and a division of Salesforce.com.
Peter Kafka in Media on April 20, 2011 at 5:52 am PT
Unlike News.me, this one’s free–and you don’t have to wait for Apple’s approval before you can try it out.
Kara Swisher in News on April 6, 2011 at 1:28 pm PT
Yesterday, AOL’s Huffington Post Media Group got into hot water after the top editor at its Moviefone unit sent a memo to freelancers it was in the midst of firing, offering them an opportunity to “contribute as part of our non-paid blogger system.”
Today, sources said that exec–Moviefone Editor-in-Chief Patricia Chui–was fired by the company, which is in the midst of drastically rejiggering its stable of writers.
Kara Swisher in News on March 30, 2011 at 3:24 pm PT
A panoply of big media giants sent a cease-and-desist letter today to Zite, the Apple iPad news reader app.
The Washington Post, AP, Gannett, Getty, Time, Dow Jones and many other media organizations were part of the copyright violations action, which you can read all about after the jump.
Peter Kafka in Media on March 24, 2011 at 5:30 am PT
There’s a lot of great stuff on Twitter. And there’s a lot more lousy stuff. Twitter thinks curation is really important, but isn’t doing it itself–yet. So it’s asking outsiders for help.
“I killed newspapers.”
– Eric Schmidt’s suggested epitaph, via Washington Post legend Bob Woodward. It’s not accurate, of course–real culprits range from an overabundance of commodity news, to the evaporation of classified ads and monopoly ad pricing to an over-reliance on debt markets–but it is pithy.
Kara Swisher in News on February 14, 2011 at 12:15 pm PT
Here is a video of a segment I did on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” yesterday morning–in the wee hours in San Francisco, hence the bags under my eyes–about last week’s $315 million acquisition of the Huffington Post by AOL.
“Someone has to be the Condé Nast of the Internet,” I noted in answer to a question from host Howard Kurtz, since it has not been that famous magazine company which has become the big publishing dog online.
