Boston Globe Owner Set To Start Health News Website
John Henry, the billionaire owner of The Boston Globe, formally unveils a new publication on Wednesday dedicated to coverage of health, medicine and life sciences. The new offering, called Stat, will...
View ArticleThis Former Venture Capitalist Is Trying To Change Education One Town At A Time
Ted Dintersmith is on a whirlwind tour of trying to change education in America, one community at a time. Dintersmith, a former venture capitalist, is executive producer of "Most Likely To Succeed," a...
View ArticlePhilly.com 'Gutted' By Layoffs
More than half of Philly.com’s editorial staff and 25 percent of Daily News editorial staffers were among the 46 people laid off by Philadelphia Media Network, according to the employee union head....
View ArticleBBC told to emulate Buzzfeed by producing 'informal' short videos where...
BBC journalists have been told to follow youth-friendly media such as Buzzfeed and Vice by making more “dynamic” and “informal” short videos in which the reporter acts as “a friend” to the viewer. The...
View ArticleFusion Enlists NYU And Parsons Students To Try And Disrupt Election Coverage
NEW YORK -- Critics have long diagnosed what's wrong with election coverage. Too much politics and too little policy. Pack journalism on the campaign trail. Obsessive attention paid to each poll,...
View ArticleTime Inc.’s People Launches “People Shop” E-Commerce Destination (Time Inc)
(Source: Time Inc) “Our long-standing work with Joyus has proved that we understand the value of marrying content and commerce.” adds Jess Cagle, Editorial Director of People and Entertainment Weekly....
View ArticleHow Jennifer Hudson Stepped Into A Role She Never Imagined
Jennifer Hudson is already an Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe Award winner. But now she's gunning for a Tony Award. Entertainment journalist Karu F. Daniels catches up to the vocal powerhouse as she...
View ArticleNBC, MSNBC Shake Up Digital Operations
NEW YORK -- NBC News Chairman Andy Lack on Tuesday named the BBC's Nick Ascheim to lead digital efforts for both NBC News and MSNBC, management's latest attempt at unifying the broadcast and cable...
View ArticleBuzzFeed Changes Editorial Standards To Allow Sponsorships In Entertainment...
BuzzFeed’s editorial standards were modified earlier this week to allow for greater collaboration between the...
View ArticleSpotlight
In our current age of clickbait articles and nonsensical "listicles" passing for news, it feels like the role of traditional journalism is being called into question more and more. As such, it's...
View ArticleWe Did The Prank Test That Ben Carson’s Talking About
In an interview with BuzzFeed News on Monday, Curtis Bakal, an editorial assistant at the satirical Yale Record who says he helped write the fake test, said he was “99% certain the way Carson remembers...
View ArticleGawker Has A New Editor-In-Chief
Alex Pareene has been named the new editor-in-chief of Gawker, the news outlet announced Tuesday. The company congratulated Pareene, a veteran Gawker staffer who recently returned to the news site as...
View ArticleWant Your Own Personal Satellite? Reaching Space Is Becoming (Relatively) Cheap
Satellites are shrinking, and so is the cost to build them and shoot them up into orbit. Cubesats, which weigh 1.33 kilograms or less, have become popular for researchers with grants and federal...
View ArticleRNC Suspends Partnership With NBC News For February Debate
Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus sent a letter to NBC News Chairman Andrew Lack on Friday, informing him that the party was suspending its partnership with the network after...
View ArticleSammy Davis Jr. Biopic, Series In The Works With Byron Allen’s Entertainment...
Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios is developing a movie, TV series and documentary on Sammy Davis Jr., based on Matt Birkbeck’s biography “Deconstructing Sammy.” -- This feed and its contents are the...
View ArticleBen Carson’s West Point Claim Is Latest Controversy To Rattle His Campaign...
Ben Carson has been having a rough time since he ascended to front-runner status in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. As the brighter lights of scrutiny that accompany a candidate's...
View ArticleThis Hot Tech Scaleup Is Winning the Talent Wars. Here's How.
Mark McDonald and Josiah Humphrey turned Appster into an app development powerhouse. Their secret: Understanding how to find great people and make them want to stay. Like many fast-growing technology...
View ArticleStrangling of Turkish Journalism - Televised Live
The scenes on Wednesday, all broadcast live, were unimaginable in an even fourth-world country. From the early hours on, a large police force, including plainclothes officers, assembled at the gates of...
View ArticleHow Instagram Turned a Fashion Bloggers Passion into a Multifigure Company
If you don't know -- now you know Danielle Bernstein! She is female fashion blogger who started out as a street blogger and now has a full fledged multifigure company. On October 30th weWoreWhat...
View ArticleShuttering Of City Room Reflects Larger Evolution At The Times
The New York Times’ popular City Room blog, which chronicled New York City goings-on large and small, is no more. Times reporter Andy Newman announced the blog’s closure in a post Monday, explaining...
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