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More People Work at Fusion Than Are Reading Its Most Popular Post
Sam Biddle · 06/02/15 02:25PMSince its official launch in 2013, Fusion has aimed to be a haven for sweet millennial clicks and a place for journalists to make a lot of money while practicing “post-text” journalism. You can debate whether it’s accomplished either of those things, but one thing that can’t be debated is that no one is actually reading Fusion.
Hell Is Working at the Huffington Post
Anonymous · 06/02/15 12:30PMThe Gawker Guide to This Year's Pulitzer Prizes
Leah Finnegan · 04/20/15 03:05PMHow Can Brian Williams Possibly Return to NBC News?
J.K. Trotter · 04/07/15 03:28PMVanity Fair has published a lengthy dissection of NBC’s long-troubled news division and its most visible public persona, the disgraced Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. Any remaining faith in reversing NBC’s death spiral, sources tell the journalist Bryan Burrough, appears to be rapidly evaporating. But Burrough’s piece leaves at least one important question hanging: How on earth can Brian Williams ever return to NBC News?
Writing Lessons: Philip Gourevitch Is a Bad Blogger
Tom Scocca · 03/27/15 03:34PMTucker Carlson’s Brother Called de Blasio’s Spokeswoman “LabiaFace”
J.K. Trotter · 03/25/15 05:08PMDid you know Daily Caller founder Tucker Carlson has a 44-year-old brother and his name is Buckley Swanson Peck Carlson? It’s true. We were reminded of this fact after Rosie Gray at BuzzFeed published an email Buckley sent to a Bill de Blasio spokeswoman today. The message manages to be both sexist (Buckley refers to the spokeswoman as “LabiaFace”) and incompetent (he accidentally CC’d the very spokeswoman he was referring to). Here it is:
News Industry Shrugs, Prepares to Hand Entire Business Over to Facebook
Leah Finnegan · 03/24/15 11:20AMFacebook, a dull and endlessly scrolling record of personal propaganda and content headlined in two or more sentences, isn't satisfied with the way its 1.4 billion users (most non-sentient) consume the news. According to the New York Times, it takes an epic eight seconds for the average Joe Facebook User to load an outside news link, clicked on in Facebook, in a new browser tab or window. Unacceptable.
New Times Op-Ed Writer Has a Colorful Past With Racist Publications
J.K. Trotter · 03/18/15 04:58PMToday the New York Times announced its selection of 20 new op-ed writers who will contribute to the paper on a monthly basis. Editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal told Capital New York that his staff selected contributors with “a broad range of viewpoints and subjects and backgrounds and geographical locations and every kind of form of diversity that you can think of.” This commitment to a diversity of viewpoints is remarkably strong, as indicated by the paper’s inclusion of science writer Razib Khan.
Why Is the Times Quoting This Quack About the Danger of AppleWatches?
Leah Finnegan · 03/18/15 02:20PMIn Wednesday's New York Times, Nick Bilton, a Styles columnist who writes about technology as you might expect a Styles columnist to, makes a foray into science journalism, questioning if "wearable tech" could be harmful to our bodies—could wearable computers, like the AppleWatch (onsaleApril24atyournearestAppleStore) be as dangerous to us...as cigarettes?
Plagiarist of the Day: Mic News Director Jared Keller
J.K. Trotter · 02/11/15 02:40PMMike Bloomberg Actually Tried to Buy The New York Times: Report
J.K. Trotter · 01/23/15 10:40AMMike Bloomberg, the billionaire and former Republican mayor of New York City, has never had an easy relationship with the New York Times. He even told New Yorker editor David Remnick that “he detests the New York Times … [he] thinks that the New York Times has an opinion page on the front page and he loathes it.” But that didn’t prevent Bloomberg—who already controls his own shop, Bloomberg News—from trying to buy the paper.