A little while ago I went to a screening of ‘Page One: Inside the New York Times’, organised by the paper’s international newspaper the International Herald Tribune. The documentary follows The New York Times’ media desk during a turbulent time in media and raises lots of important questions. Read more »
David Carr and Brian Stelter at the New York Times talk about Rupert Murdoch’s planned iPad-only newspaper, due out in 2011. News Corporation is backing The Daily with a $30m budget. Read more »
Paid content has story of a very interesting news sharing start-up called Ongo, which has raised $12m from USA Today publisher-Gannett, the New York Times Company and the Washtington Post Company.
It is headed by former eBay executive Alex Kazim, who previously ran defunct blog aggregator Tokoni. At eBay he was a senior VP and president of Skype. Read more »
The Hollywood Reporter, part E5 Global Media, is to cease daily publication and become a weekly magazine as disappearing advertisers and loss of status in an industry that is dominated by entertainment blogs takes its toll on the once mighty trade press. Read more »
Wikileaks is working with London-based journalism nonprofit the Bureau of Investigative Journalism to release a massive cache of classified US military field reports related to the Iraq War. Iain Overton, according to a post on Newsweek’s Declassified blog. Read more »
How long can Andy Coulson last now that it has been confirmed that he will be interviewed by the Metropolitan Police? The Met will talk to David Cameron’s director of communications as part of fresh inquiries into the phone hacking case surrounding the News of the World and News International. Read more »
News Corporation has bitten back in progressing phone hacking saga and sent a letter to the New York Times following its investigation into the scandal. The paper’s story reignited interest in the illegal activities of Rupert Murdoch’s News of the World and Andy Coulson’s possible knowledge of that activity.
In a strongly word letter News Corp accuses the New York Times paper of failing to come up with new evidence. Read more »
As the government is called upon to launch a judicial inquiry into the phone hacking scandal at the News of the World you would think there was a news blackout with half of the national press ignoring the story. Read more »
Caroline Little, CEO of Guardian North America, departs after a culture clash: “It’s been challenging,” said Little. “This is a London-based company.”
Good piece in the New York Times on the struggle for survival of that particular kind of American newspaper – the alternative weekly newspaper, and in this case the San Francisco Bay Guardian, which recently won a six year legal battle with rival SF Weekly. Read more »
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