By JAKE COYLE
Cassy Hayes and Jasmine Coleman were among the first fans to arrive outside the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles where Michael Jackson was brought and later pronounced dead.
How had Hayes, 25, and Coleman, 21, heard the news so quickly?
Twitter.
The two young women had learned about Jackson’s health like so many [...]
By Jeff Jarvis
Following the frighteningly dangerous thinking of Judge Richard Posner – proposing rewriting copyright law to outlaw linking to and summarizing (aka talking about) news stories – now we have two more lemming lawyers following him off the cliff in a column written by the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s Connie Schultz.
First note well that Schultz [...]
By Gillian Reagan
Among the many lessons learned from this “new media revolution” spurred by the violent protests in Iran, one is that we are all aggregators.
The Huffington Post, Andrew Sullivan and Nate Silver are not the only ones. Anyone posting links to stories about the protests, putting an #iranelection hashtag on a Tweet, or embedding [...]
Site’s Users Spread The Word in Real Time
By Howard Kurtz
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 David Carr
Calling itself “a daily online magazine of Jewish news, ideas, and culture,” Tablet magazine began publishing Tuesday. The Web site is a project of the nonprofit Nextbook Inc. and the sister organization of Nextbook Press, which publishes a line of Jewish-themed books. Tablet lists an impressive bunch of contributors and is edited by [...]
By Elizabeth Blackwell
Sell yourself.
It’s an entrepreneurial slogan we’ve had drilled into us. What we often forget is that it applies equally to a solo-practitioner CPA or corner deli as it does to multinational corporations. Sometimes the public needs a reminder of what you do, how well you’re doing it and, most importantly in this economic [...]
By Jeff Bercovici
Forget about political winds and social trends. The dominance of Fox News in the cable ratings race has lasted through wartime and peacetime, boom and recession, Republican and Democrat. It’s not a product of circumstance — it’s a law of nature: irresistible, irreducible and seemingly immutable.
In the just-ended May ratings period, Fox once [...]
By Ana Marie Cox
Intense interest in the Obama administration has swelled the ranks of the White House press corps. Outlets such as Politico have thrown a basketball team’s worth of bodies at the project, and outlets that didn’t even exist until recently — Fivethirtyeight.com, the Huffington Post — have created their own White House correspondent [...]
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and BRAD STONE
If your local newspaper shuts down, what will take the place of its coverage? Perhaps a package of information about your neighborhood, or even your block, assembled by a computer.
A number of Web start-up companies are creating so-called hyperlocal news sites that let people zoom in on what is [...]
by Walter S. Mossberg
As newspapers, magazines and TV stations face dire economic challenges, and journalism moves increasingly online, debates are raging about how best to preserve quality news and commentary while still making money.
There’s lots of experimentation with different approaches. Many journalists, old and new, are operating as stand-alone bloggers, but finding it hard to [...]