When The Washington Post started drawing heat for its latest “Mouthpiece Theater” video, in which Post staffers Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza suggested it would be appropriate for Hillary Clinton to drink “Mad Bitch” beer, the paper made the problem go away-literally. As a Post spokesperson noted via email to several outlets, including CJR, the […]

Sony Corp. plans to offer two new e-reader devices priced at $199 and $299, a move that intensifies competition in a burgeoning market dominated by rival Amazon.com Inc.
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The BBC’s Wild China was a successful co-production last year with CCTV, the Chinese state broadcaster. Photograph: Gavin Maxwell/BBCThe BBC’s ambitions in China, one of the world’s fastest-growing television markets, could be undermined by the government’s anger over a recent Kate Adie documentary about the Tiananmen Square massacre.
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With its ability to collect articles and sell advertisements against them, Google has already become a huge force in the news business - and the scourge of many newspapers. Now its subsidiary YouTube wants to do the same thing to local television.
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For all the concern and uproar over online privacy, marketers and data companies have always known much more about consumers’ offline lives, like income, credit score, home ownership, even what car they drive and whether they have a hunting license. Recently, some of these companies have started connecting this mountain of information to consumers’ browsers.
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Like everyone else I’ve watched the print media world fall apart over the last few years. The poster child for that industry is the New York Times, of course, and their many missteps in recent memory have been well chronicled. In early 2008 Marc Andreessen started a New York Times Deathwatch, and the company’s […]

When Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired and the author of “Free: The Future of a Radical Price,” gave an interview to Spiegel Online International (which was reprinted in Salon) that ran yesterday, he approached the task with a strategy that is familiar to those of us who cover sports and politics. Rather than directly […]

CNN’s Lou Dobbs dove back into the issue of whether President Obama is a United States citizen on Tuesday, shortly after the president of CNN’s United States news operation repeated his contention that there is, in fact, no question to debate.
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The conspiracy theorists who have claimed for more than a year that President Obama is not a United States citizen have found receptive ears among some mainstream media figures in recent weeks.Despite ample evidence to the contrary, the country’s most popular talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh, told his listeners on Tuesday that Mr. Obama “has […]

New York Times Co. on Thursday reported a surprise profit thanks to deep cost cuts and a one-time tax benefit, as Chief Executive Janet Robinson said she is planning more cuts and pushing harder on selling off assets as she tries to restore the company’s health.Ms. Robinson also has been working on the next critical […]