This week, when they ring the bell on the television upfronts, the annual orgy of advertising buying, I hope the industry isn’t counting on my house to lift ratings. So far in the month of May, our household has watched exactly two minutes and one second of live television. NBC’s broadcast of “the most exciting […]
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International press freedom watchdogs are watching the political situation in Greece with growing alarm following the treatment of journalists by the far-right Golden Dawn party. After Golden Dawn obtained 7 percent of the vote, a press conference was staged by its leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos. Before his arrival, waiting reporters were ordered by party members to […]
OTTAWA — Relations between Rob Ford, Toronto’s mayor, and The Toronto Star, the highest circulation newspaper in Canada, have never been cordial. Irritated by its reporting on his behavior as a volunteer football coach, Mr. Ford has not given The Star an interview since his election as mayor in 2010 and has consistently declined to […]
When Facebook goes public in the coming weeks, there will be a lot of winners. Among them is one of the stalwarts of the tech industry, Microsoft, which has a small stake in the company. But Microsoft has an even bigger bet on Facebook through an alliance between its Bing search engine and the social […]
News Corp hit back at assertions made by the Leveson inquiry’s lawyer last week that its chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch may have been lying to it when he gave evidence. As part of a two-pronged fightback by the company, Rhodri Davies QC, counsel for its subsidiary News International, told the inquiry that attacks […]
This week, when they ring the bell on the television upfronts, the annual orgy of advertising buying, I hope the industry isn’t counting on my house to lift ratings. So far in the month of May, our household has watched exactly two minutes and one second of live television. NBC’s broadcast of “the most exciting […]
OTTAWA — Relations between Rob Ford, Toronto’s mayor, and The Toronto Star, the highest circulation newspaper in Canada, have never been cordial. Irritated by its reporting on his behavior as a volunteer football coach, Mr. Ford has not given The Star an interview since his election as mayor in 2010 and has consistently declined to […]
It turns out that, yes, you can take it with you when you head for that great reading room in the sky. All my mourners will have to do is tuck my Kindle (and cable) into my casket and I’ll be set. Grave goods like these will be the envy of heaven or hell. Why […]
When Facebook goes public in the coming weeks, there will be a lot of winners. Among them is one of the stalwarts of the tech industry, Microsoft, which has a small stake in the company. But Microsoft has an even bigger bet on Facebook through an alliance between its Bing search engine and the social […]
News Corp hit back at assertions made by the Leveson inquiry’s lawyer last week that its chairman and chief executive Rupert Murdoch may have been lying to it when he gave evidence. As part of a two-pronged fightback by the company, Rhodri Davies QC, counsel for its subsidiary News International, told the inquiry that attacks […]
PICTURE yourself as a historian in 2035, trying to make sense of this year’s American election campaign. Many of the websites and blogs now abuzz with news and comment will have long since perished. Data stored electronically decays. Many floppy disks from the early digital age are already unreadable. If you are lucky, copies […]
Nearly 7,000 people in the United States die each year while waiting for an organ transplant. It is a number that Facebook hopes to lower with its vast network of 161 million members in this country. The company announced a plan on Tuesday morning to encourage everyone on Facebook to start advertising their donor […]
Now that Facebook has set its share prices, valuing the company between $77 billion and $96 billion, the question is whether it will be able to convince investors that it’s got a sustainable business model, can keep growing and find new ways to generate revenue. And because advertising revenue is such a big part […]
Rupert Murdoch accused a senior lawyer at the News of the World of being behind a “culture of cover-up” that prevented the News Corp chairman from finding out the true scale of phone hacking at the Sunday tabloid. Mr Murdoch, 81, told Lord Justice Leveson at an inquiry into media practices that the phone […]
The term “digital pedagogy” has now achieved the same status as “interdisciplinarity” or “entrepreneurial scholarship.” We express enthusiasm about it publicly, while privately confessing that we don’t exactly know how to do it. My own early efforts might charitably be described as clumsy. (Example: my horrible tic, since cured, of blurting out “It’s like […]
Out of bankruptcy, Minnesota’s largest newspaper is starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. In 2009, the Star Tribune found itself on a dubious list: Time’s 10 Most Endangered Newspapers in America. That was the year Minnesota’s largest daily entered into bankruptcy after rounds of cost-cutting couldn’t help the company […]
THE sudden roar erupting from the Jägerklause bar in east Berlin’s bohemian Friedrichshain district late on a recent Sunday sounded like the usual soccer-match pandemonium. But the crowd inside, with their jeans and sneakers and easygoing looks, didn’t seem like typical soccer fanatics. Nor did they look like political operatives — but that’s what […]
A ribbon unfurls in the colors of the Venezuelan flag, while a drum roll announces the show’s title sequence and a trumpet tootles. Block-letter words pop up on the screen: “humanity,” “struggle,” “socialism.” It looks for all the world like a “Daily Show” parody. And then comes a close-up of the show’s host and […]
The first thing to be said about the lawsuit filed last week by the Justice Department against Apple and five book publishers is that the defendants very well may be guilty. There does seem to have been collusion among them to fix the price of e-books. But even if the book publishers’ actions were […]
The media marketplace may be expecting an advertising rebound this year, but at least one group isn’t benefiting so far: magazines. The number of ad pages in U.S. consumer magazines fell 8.2% during the first quarter of 2012 from the year earlier period, according to research by the Publishers Information Bureau. The quarter is […]