Posts Tagged ‘Newspapers’

Google News has done more to kill newspapers than just about any other web site in the world. So it’s interesting to hear a report that Google plans to release a micro-payment system that will link to paid newspaper content directly from search results. Word of the move comes out of Italy, where the Italian [...]

New York Times Co. shares are up more than 8% today on heavy trading. The reason: a rumor going around that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim might want to take the company private. Wowza. If you know more, email us. UPDATE: More »



In your ethical Monday media column: a movie review in need of some full disclosure, a trade magazine goes wacko, CBS is too good for Anderson Cooper, and Playboy looks grim(mer). More »



In your niveous Thursday media column: an Atlanta editor is a character, Dave Eggers pontificates, Jann Wenner is a joiner, ProPublica is unstoppable, and a sad poor end to a gay publishing empire. More »



And now comes the coup de grace to the woeful tale of Sally Quinn, the Washington Post‘s most execrable rich lady columnist: she is being stashed in the back closet of the “internet,” lest she embarrass the paper further. More »



In your wearying Wednesday media column: the Washington Post is somewhat unpopular, the NYT is just coasting, Steve Coll’s secret reading list, and a late freelancer payment tidbit.

What are those…



In your value-added Tuesday media column: The Onion shuts down a section, SmartMoney may be taken over by Dow Jones, an n+1 guy gets a book deal, and Magic Johnson’s still not a media…



In your fill-in Monday media column, journalistic panhandling fails, dick jokes meet the holy land and Anna Wintour gets the recognition she’s been waiting so long for.

Anna Wintour has been elected…



In your flippant Friday media column: Americans don’t know who to trust, a money man gives up on the NYT, Conde Nast is spying on you, and Chris Dovi really got screwed.

In a new survey, 40% of…



Sally Quinn has a Washington Post column because she’s married to former WaPo editor Ben Bradlee. Today: she apologetically explains, at length, the circumstances that led to two of her family…