Twitter has now restored the popular New York Times parody account it suspended on Monday after the Times filed a complaint against it. Benjamin Kabak, the 29-year-old lawyer behind the account, told POLITICO that Twitter reenabled the account Tuesday morning but threatened him with permanent deletion if they receive another complaint. Kabak removed the […]
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There are the questions you ask friends, family and close confidants. And then there are the questions you ask the Internet. Search engines have long provided clues to the topics people look up. But now sites like Google and Bing are showing the precise questions that are most frequently asked, giving everyone a chance […]
Érik Izraelewicz, editorial director of Le Monde, died on Tuesday in Paris. He was 58. Employees said Mr. Izraelewicz collapsed from a heart attack while working on the French newspaper’s Wednesday issue. Efforts to revive him were unsuccessful, and he was pronounced dead at a Paris hospital, the newspaper said Wednesday. The death of […]
I can remember the specific moment when I swore off the sex lives of the famous as journalistic currency. It was the case of a national sportscaster — I won’t name him, but, alas, most of those old enough will remember the name, which is regrettable — whose sex life had suddenly become the […]
With this column, the Poynter Review Project’s work comes to an end. After nearly 40 columns reviewing ESPN content across all platforms, we’ll close with lessons learned over 18 months of observing the network’s various media outlets, examining their successes and failures, and investigating how ESPN works (and sometimes doesn’t). We offer these observations […]
In the wake of the Newsnight catastrophe, people are now talking as if investigative journalism is just too difficult for the BBC to do. The wretched staff at the TV programme, having wrongly targeted Lord McAlpine as a sex abuser, are now suspended from the practice of the art, like a bunch of errant […]
Even as usage of mobile devices explodes, spending on mobile ads still lags spending on online ads by a huge margin. Will that gap narrow anytime soon? Here’s a look at some of the strategies that mobile marketers are using. As Mary Meeker, the Queen of the Internet, made clear earlier this year, mobile […]
On election night, it became the most re-tweeted photo in the history of social media: a picture of President Obama hugging his wife, Michelle. But the dissemination of that iconic image is only the tip of a far larger iceberg that sank Mitt Romney. Yes, demographics helped Obama beat him. But so did the […]
Take your phone out of your pocket, turn the camera on and hold it up in front of you. Move it around and you see the world on your screen. Your phone can now add labels, pictures or video to that plain world view. As you move the phone around, the labels change with […]
At the end of his first week as CEO of The New York Times, Mark Thompson was the subject of yet another story in his new paper about his tenure at the BBC. The latest story revealed that a letter sent in his name detailed sex abuse allegations against former host Jimmy Savile, allegations […]
Just like virtually every other point in the campaign that led up to it, this week’s U.S. election brought record levels of engagement on social media — Facebook, Twitter, and elsewhere. Twitter celebrated enduring the day without an outage, though Gizmodo’s Jesus Diaz was less than impressed. The other center of activity on Tuesday […]
Two gang members duel on motorcycles, an executive is kidnapped, a “sexy nurse” appears for no reason, a Swat team abseils from the ceiling, and shoulder-padded American footballers rush in to join the fray. The over-the-top show was laid on in Time Warner’s New York headquarters by its Turner Media division last month, as part […]
As the presidential campaign wound down, it became clear that the media’s factchecking effort, which played a more prominent role in the coverage than it had in any previous election, is at something of a crossroads. Thanks to the truth-squadding—by teams at PolitiFact and FactCheck.org, as well as individual reporters around the country—we learned, […]
Pearson Plc (PSON) is planning to explore a sale of the Financial Times newspaper as the company focuses on its faster-growing education business, people with knowledge of the situation said. The company has decided to consider offers for the newspaper this year, said the people, who declined to be identified because the process is […]
When Mark O’Mara agreed to defend George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder case, one of his first major decisions was to embrace the Internet. He set up a legal defense Web site for his client, a Twitter page and a Facebook account, all with the purpose of countering what he called the “avalanche […]
For millions who lost power but could still access the internet on mobile devices, Twitter served as a critical lifeline throughout the disaster that struck on October 29. At least a few news operations, such as Huffington Post and the aggregator BuzzFeed saw their servers go down and turned to Twitter and other social […]
Defence lawyer tells hearing soldier wants to offer guilty plea for some offences in US government's case against him Bradley Manning, the US soldier who is facing life in prison for allegedly having leaked hundreds of thousands of state secrets to WikiLeaks, has indicated publicly for the first time that he accepts responsibility for […]
Here is a lesson every Web site manager may be taking away from Hurricane Sandy: It is probably not a good idea to put the backup power generators where it floods. As computer centers in Lower Manhattan and New Jersey shut down or went to emergency operations after power failures and water damage Monday […]
With few exceptions, there's no news value gained by putting broadcasters in gale force winds and tidal floods. It just adds drama to see their safety imperiled. Everyone tuned to CNN's Hurricane Sandy coverage couldn't help but be riveted by images of correspondent Ali Velshi reporting from an Atlantic City intersection as the storm made […]
Tom Wolfe’s Miami-based novel is packed with noise, art, sex – and capital letters Back to Blood, by Tom Wolfe, Jonathan Cape, RRP£20, Little, Brown, RRP$30, 720 pages There was a time when Tom Wolfe was a fine writer, joining forces with Truman Capote and Joan Didion to reinvent American journalism. In his early […]