Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Media gadfly and would-be mogul Michael Wolff has a new book out, or maybe coming out soon, presumably with a title and so on. Here are the blurbs: The blurbs for Michael Wolff’s new book pic.twitter.com/PHERgmsUeD May 29, 2015 While we appreciate our inclusion in this murderers’ row of “big shots,” we feel this quote…
NOT long after Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon, said he would pay $250m of his own money for the chronically loss-making Washington Post, in August 2013, he sat next to the newspaper’s editorial-page editor, Fred Hiatt, at a dinner. It was a perfect opportunity to influence the Post’s line, but Mr Bezos reportedly preferred…
Yesterday, Gawker Media announced that we will be holding an election next week to vote on whether our editorial staffers want to form a union. The purpose of this post is to allow our writers to discuss how they’re voting, and why. The vote next week is to decide whether we want to agree to…
“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10 percent faster if they ate a chocolate bar every day. It made the front page of Bild, Europe’s largest daily newspaper, just beneath their update about the Germanwings crash. From there, it ricocheted…
It’s an annual moment of print realism here at Nieman Lab: The posting of the attention slide from Mary Meeker’s state-of-the-Internet slide deck. It’s enough of a tradition that I can now copy-and-paste from multiple versions of this post. Here’s a sentence from the 2013 version: For those who don’t know it, Meeker — formerly…
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ReCode, the news website led by the veteran journalists Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher, is being acquired by Vox Media, a deal that reflects the turmoil among digital organizations focused on covering the tech industry. The all-stock deal, financial terms of which were not disclosed, would give ReCode access to a wider audience, something it…
DUBAI Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian went on trial on espionage charges behind closed doors in Tehran on Tuesday, 10 months after he was arrested at his home and imprisoned, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. His wife Yeganeh Salehi and a woman described as a photojournalist, who were detained with him in July but…
NPR publishes Holy Grail of corrections by Benjamin Mullin Published May 21, 2015 3:43 pm Updated May 21, 2015 3:50 pm NPR Since I started on this beat nearly a year ago, I’ve seen a lot of corrections. Some are funny, some are morbid, and some seem obvious in retrospect. But NPR on Thursday published…
Call from Oklahoma: I don’t know what’s going on in this world right now. Obama’s a Muslim and that’s all I’ve got to say. C-SPAN’s Steve Scully: Obama is not a Muslim, but thank you for making your comment. Call from Michigan: We need to get rid of every Muslim out of the country [sic],…