The news junkies can’t get enough of her

By Nathania Johnson
The New York Times has a piece about the “new” style public relations in this day and age of blogs, Facebook and Twitter. They follow a publicist Brooke Hammerling as she develops a strategy for new startup Wordnik. An investor wants to avoid tech blogs such as TechCrunch due to his opinion that [...]

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
 

For seven months, The New York Times managed to keep out of the news the fact that one of its reporters, David Rohde, had been kidnapped by the Taliban.
But that was pretty straightforward compared with keeping it off Wikipedia.
Times executives believed that publicity would raise Mr. Rohde’s value to his captors as a [...]

By Greg Bensinger
June 23 (Bloomberg) — New York Times Co., publisher of the namesake newspaper, is likely to begin charging users to access its news on mobile devices before it does so on its Web sites, the head of digital operations said.
Times Co. is considering paid subscriptions on devices including Apple Inc.’s iPhone because they [...]

By Amanda Ernst
Last night, we headed up town to Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism for a panel discussing the future of business journalism.
The panel, which was called “Now What? Business Journalism After the Meltdown,” featured New York Times assistant business and financial editor Gretchen Morgenson, investor Bill Ackman, Jeff Madrick, editor of Challenge Magazine, and [...]

By Joe Strupp

It is the spring of Twitter, after the winter of Facebook, and nearly a decade of blogging. So how are newspapers handling a lot of this newfangled social media madness? Many editors are still not sure how to police the growing Twitter trend and Facebook “friending” phenomenon. Since much of it relies on [...]

Site’s Users Spread The Word in Real Time
By Howard Kurtz
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Is Twitter no longer an ultra-hip refuge for the perpetually plugged-in?
Now that Time’s cover has certified it as part of mass culture, the quirky little Web site can hardly be dismissed as a mere oddity. And the masses that have jumped from MySpace to Facebook to [...]

By: Alexander Burns 

Former White House adviser Karl Rove lashed out at New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd on Fox News Channel Wednesday, saying Dowd was a “nasty, snarky person” with a “twisted, bitter little heart.”
“I think Maureen Dowd is a bitter, twisted, deranged columnist for The New York Times who misses no opportunity to show [...]

The Obamas may have the smartest, most finely calibrated press operation in White House history, parceling out scoops (The New York Times), partisan talking points (the Huffington Post), and First Family tidbits (the celebrity mags) to a desperate media. Just don’t ask them to admit it.
By Michael Wolff

Bill Burton is the baby-faced political op [...]

By David Kaplan
Just as her promotion to social editor was being announced this morning, Jennifer Preston posted her first tweet. She introduced herself and asked “How should @nytimes be using Twitter?” At that point, she had a few dozen followers, but by the end of the day, she had amassed more than 2,400. While [...]