New Media Venture Spring Is Officially Upon Us
There sure is a lot going on in the world of new journalism ventures lately! Over the weekend, former Washington Poster Ezra Klein's new Vox Media effort — known until recently as "Project X" — was...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: AOL to Shed 300 Patch Sites | NYT Not for Sale |...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. AOL to Shut Down About 300 Patch.com Websites (Newsday) AOL plans to close, sell or find partners for nearly a third of its...
View ArticleMediabistro Early Bird Newsfeed
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook Teams With Storyful to Launch FB Newswire for Journalists, Media Outlets (AllFacebook) Facebook has become a virtual...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Cuts Hit CNN, HLN | Nielsen Revision Puts Nightly...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Layoffs Begin at CNN (TVNewser) Layoffs have begun at CNN. As many as 300, or 8 percent, of CNN’s workforce is being cut in...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Kal Penn Joins Fusion for Midterms | SoftBank, DWA...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Kal Penn Named Special Correspondent of Fusion’s Midterm Mayhem (TVNewser) Actor Kal Penn is joining Fusion as a special...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: NPR Appoints CEO | Colbert’s Successor Named |...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Jarl Mohn Becomes NPR President and CEO (FishbowlDC) The board of directors of NPR announced Friday that it has selected Jarl Mohn...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: PDaily Buys NSFW Corp | Duffy Slams BuzzFeed | NYT...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. PandoDaily Acquires NSFW Corp to Double Down on Investigative Reporting (PandoDaily) There are three people who...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Bloomberg Cancels Hunt | CNN Politics Makes Cuts
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Bloomberg Media Makes Cuts in Three Cities, Cancels Political Capital (TVNewser) Bloomberg Media made cuts in Washington, D.C., Los...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Bartiromo Joins FBN | Bloomberg Layoffs | Don Lemon...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Maria Bartiromo Leaving CNBC for FBN (TVNewser) Maria Bartiromo is leaving CNBC to join Fox Business. “After 20 years of...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Globe & Mail Gets It Wrong | Obama Blogs at HuffPost...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Globe And Mail Erroneously Claims Ex-NSA Chief Michael Hayden Killed at LAX (TheWrap) In yet another in a long list of major...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: White House Photo Spat | Spayd Named CJR EIC | NBCU...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. White House Press Corps Snaps Over Photo Ban (FishbowlDC) The White House Correspondents Association has had enough. And so has...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Politico Expanding to Europe | Fox News Defeated in...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. It’s Official: Politico’s Headed to Brussels (FishbowlDC) A 12:44 p.m. ET email from Politico president Jim VandeHei confirmed...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: NYT Axes Abramson | Snowden Book Rights to Sony | CBS...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. The New York Times Replaces Abramson as Executive Editor (NYT) Jill Abramson has been dismissed as executive editor of The New York...
View ArticleNate Silver's FiveThirtyEight Will Be Separate Site On ESPN
Nate Silver will keep his FiveThirtyEight blog as a separate site on ESPN, according to Politico on Monday. Politico reported that Bill Simmons helped broker the deal, "describing how Grantland works...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Buffett Eyes TV | NYT Hires Fashion Critic | WSJ...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Berkshire to Buy TV Station From Graham in $1.1 Billion Swap (Bloomberg Businessweek) Berkshire Hathaway Inc. reached a deal to...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Vox Media Staffs Up | NYT May Print Woody Reply | CNN...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Washington Post‘s Brad Plumer, Sarah Kliff, Max Fisher Joining Ezra Klein’s Vox Venture (HuffPost) The Washington Post‘s Brad...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Vargas Detained, Released | Abramson Books Two...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Jose Antonio Vargas Released From Federal Custody in Texas (TVNewser) Jose Antonio Vargas, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist...
View ArticleThe Upshot, NY Times’ Answer to FiveThirtyEight, Launches
The Upshot, The New York Times’ answer to the departure of Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight, is now live. The site is edited by David Leonhardt, the Times’ Washington bureau...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: ABC News, CPI Spar | FNC to Debut Daytime Ensemble |...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. ABC News Asking Center for Public Integrity to Share Pulitzer Prize (TVNewser) ABC News is calling on the Center for Public...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Silver Dishes on NYT Exit | Bartiromo Bolting CNBC? |...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Nate Silver Went Against The Grain for Some at The Times (NYT / Public Editor’s Journal) I don’t think Nate Silver ever really fit...
View ArticleNate Silver to Make All Other Journalists Obsolete by 2016
FiveThirtyEight.com is back, baby. And for all of you in DC-Journo land, this likely means you will have no jobs. The overwhelming and...
View ArticleNew York Times launches data journalism site The Upshot
Publisher's 'conversational' replacement for Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight takes on Vox and Washington Post's Wonkblog ...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: FB Launches Newswire | Vice Reporter Freed | NYT...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Facebook Teams With Storyful to Launch FB Newswire for Journalists, Media Outlets (AllFacebook) Facebook has become a virtual...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: AP Retracts Report on McAuliffe | Jessica Yellin Out...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Associated Press Retracts Erroneous Report About Terry McAuliffe (TheWrap) The AP made a major error on Wednesday in a report that...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: CNN Hires Carney | Sony, Viacom Reach Cloud-Based TV...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Jay Carney to Join CNN as Political Commentator (FishbowlDC) Former White House press secretary Jay Carney has joined CNN as a...
View Article'FiveThirtyEight,' 'The Upshot' and Vox Bet Big on Explanatory Journalism
When Nate Silver took his talents to ESPN last July, The New York Times—Silver’s former employer—convened a committee to plot its next move. It concluded the Times shouldn’t replicate Silver's blog,...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: NewsHour Names Just EP | Discovery, Sony Make Gains
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. PBS NewsHour Names ABC’s Sara Just Executive Producer (FishbowlDC) PBS NewsHour announced Thursday that 25-plus year ABC News-er...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Klein Out at WaPo | Dow Jones Chief Resigns |...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Ezra Klein Out at Washington Post (Politico / Dylan Byers on Media) The Washington Post announced Tuesday that its star economics...
View ArticleNY Times Launches Upshot Blog to Battle Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight
A new explainer blog is entering the crowded fray to compete with the other infographic upstarts. The Upshot, a data-driven site from the New York Times, launched on Tuesday and vows to help readers...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: BuzzFeed Editor Fired for Plagiarism | Palin Launches...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. BuzzFeed Fires Staffer for 40 Instances of Plagiarism (FishbowlNY) It looks like the magic number was 40. BuzzFeed has decided...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Tribune Co Cuts 700 | NYT‘s D.C. Staff Shakeup | AOL...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Tribune Co. Reorganizes Publishing Unit, Cutting Nearly 700 Jobs (Chicago Tribune) Tribune Co. announced a restructuring of its...
View ArticleNYT and FiveThirtyEight Differ on Senate Prospects
The New York Times unveiled their new post-FiveThirtyEight, data-driven journalism project today, dubbed The Upshot. The site, edited by NYT Washington bureau chief David Leonhardt (aka Not Nate...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: WaPo Finds New HQ | Journo Killed in Ukraine | FCC...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Washington Post Publisher Announces Newsroom Move to One Franklin Square...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Prometheus Buys Mediabistro | FNC Books Clinton |...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Prometheus Global Media to Acquire Mediabistro (FishbowlNY) Thursday morning, Mediabistro announced that it has entered into a...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Nate Silver to Join ESPN | Helen Thomas Dies |...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog to Join ESPN Staff (NYT) Nate Silver, the statistician who attained national fame for his...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: CNN Lays Off 40 | Yglesias Departs Slate |...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. CNN Lays Off More Than 40 Journalists (The Financial Times) CNN has laid off more than 40 senior journalists in its newsgathering...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: 538 Announces Hires | Vargas Leaves Rehab | Tapper...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. FiveThirtyEight Adds Managing Editor, Others (FishbowlNY) FiveThirtyEight, the upcoming site to be helmed by Nate Silver,...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Zakaria Joins The Atlantic | The Hill Names Cusack...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Fareed Zakaria to Join Atlantic Media as Contributing Editor (FishbowlDC)...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Silver Dings Politico | ONA Announces Honors | AP’s...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Nate Silver Previews Site, Hits Politico (Politico / Dylan Byers on Media) Nate Silver, the statistician who recently joined ESPN...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: FiveThirtyEight Is Live | Sony Layoffs Begin | Carney...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Statistician Nate Silver’s ESPN Site Kicks Off Amid Blog Frenzy (Bloomberg Businessweek) Nate Silver, the New York Times blogger...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Atlantic Partners With NewsHour | DWA Earnings Beat...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. The Atlantic Partners With PBS NewsHour (FishbowlNY) The Atlantic is partnering with PBS’ NewsHour to...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Big Changes at TNR | CBS, Dish Deadline Passes...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Big Changes at The New Republic (FishbowlNY) In this, the New Republic’s 100th year, a new direction. FishbowlDC Franklin Foer,...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Crowley to Leave CNN | Mass Exodus at TNR, Issue Canned
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Candy Crowley Leaving CNN (TVNewser) Candy Crowley, a 27-year CNN veteran, is leaving the network. The move was announced in an...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: Charlie Hebdo to Print Next Week | Facebook Acquires...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. Charlie Hebdo to Publish 1 Million Copies Next Week (THR) Following Wednesday’s terrorist attack at its offices in Paris, satirical...
View ArticleNate Silver's FiveThirtyEight Launch Gets Lackluster Reviews in Its First Week
Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight is taking a minor beating from critics during its launch week. The stats whiz, famous for correctly predicting the 2012 election for President Obama, launched his new...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: NPR Disputes Report | Dead Celebs Sell Mags | NYT...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. NPR Dismisses an Ombudsman Report (CJR / Behind The News) This past Friday, NPR ombudsman Edward Schumacher-Matos released an...
View ArticleMorning Media Newsfeed: ECJ Tackles Web Records | ABC Pitches Brands | FCC...
Click here to receive Mediabistro’s Morning Media Newsfeed via email. European Court Lets Users Erase Records on Web (NYT) Europe’s highest court said on Tuesday that people had the right to influence...
View ArticleNate Silver Outlines Launch Plan for ESPN's FiveThirtyEight
0 0 0 0 0 Email Print Comments Courtesy of ESPN Nate Silver The statistician explained the site's sensibility: "Let's say fewer things but be more correct about them." Nate Silver previewed the launch...
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