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paging_filter On Friday, the Writers Guild of America-East announced that it had reached an agreement with Vice Media on a proposed contract covering its roughly 70 members at the company. The WGA-East has not made the proposed contract publicly available, but an email sent to members of the Vice union includes details on the pay…
Hello everyone, I’ve had a great first week at Mashable. I’ve really enjoyed getting to know you all by spending time in editorial meetings and chatting individually with many of you. Thanks for being so welcoming. I’m very happy to be here – and as I meet everyone I’m increasingly excited about what we’ll do…
remember remember Who Is Matthew Keys? Matthew Keys is an Internet hero, I guess. He was a social media guy with a big Twitter following, and then he lost or quit his job after publicly criticizing his TV station’s newscasts, and then he went into Anonymous’s chat room (they have a chat room) and was…
Now with Kerning! We have a Special Celebrity Guest Comment of the Week this week, from the very person who we wrote about right here at Yr Wonkette! Thursday, we ran a story about Matthew Keys, a jerkbaby who was convicted of computer criming for distributing his LA Times administrator login and password to an…
COPY PHOTO/copy photo Col Allan, 62, will retire at the end of the month. He joined News Corp. in 1974 and rose through the ranks to become editor-in-chief of the tabloid in 2001. It’s the end of an error at the New York Post. Col Allan — the longest-serving editor at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp….
At BuzzFeed, a 32 percent miss in 2015 revenue and a halving of its 2016 revenue target, according to the Financial Times. At Mashable, a massive layoff after the company failed to sell itself. At Yahoo, an upcoming sale of its news-producing assets, portending great uncertainty for journalists employed there. At Medium, a new way…
Like most newly-published authors, Andrew Groen has spent a lot of time lately doing talks and trying to get the word out about his new project. He’s travelled to popular destinations, and done his best to convince people to buy his history book. The difference is that Groen isn’t traveling the real world; instead, he’s…
This story has been updated throughout with further information from the sentencing. On Wednesday, the former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys was sentenced to two years in prison for computer hacking. Keys, who once worked for Tribune Company-owned Sacramento television station Fox 40, left that job in 2010 and went on to copy and paste…
cache hit 320:single/related:72484550164ca1b60a0bf11636f964fd empty Matthew Keys Matthew Keys, a journalist, was found guilty on Wednesday of three counts of criminal hacking. He faces up to 25 years in prison, but officials are expected to seek less than five years. When asked via a Twitter direct message if he would appeal, he told Ars: “Yes,” adding,…
View this image › Matthew Keys (L) leaves the federal courthouse after being arraigned in April 2013. Max Whittaker / Getty Images ID: 8435065 Matthew Keys, a journalist who was convicted last year of computer hacking was sentenced to 24 months in prison followed by another two years of supervised release today in a federal…