In Gawker - Posted 3 weeks ago

Meredith Bryan observes in the NYO today that hello! niceness is back! On the internet, and in New York in general. Goodbye to cynicism! This inte...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 4 weeks ago

This has not been a good month for looking over your shoulder and copying your classmates work: Just last week, Gerald Posner from The Daily Beast res...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA - Posted 5 weeks ago

It was Slate's Jack Shafer's story that brought attention to the chief investigative reporter for Daily Beast Gerald Posner's lifting from other sourc...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 5 weeks ago

Gerald Posner, an investigative journalist and contributor to Tina Brown's The Daily Beast (not to mention a frequent guest on MSNBC's Hardball), has ...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA - Posted 5 weeks ago

This got caught in a classic Friday news dump because we missed the first article by Jack Shafer at Slate.com interviewing chief investigative reporte...

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In Gawker - Posted 5 weeks ago

The Daily Beast writer who confessed Friday to unintentionally lifting several sentences from a Miami Herald article also copied passages on four ot...

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In Gawker - Posted 5 weeks ago

First Rahm Emanuel called a plan he didn't like 'fucking retarded.' Then Sarah Palin called for his resignation. Then he apologized and made nice. Now...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 12 weeks ago

Magazine and newspaper publishers may have missed the boat when it comes to the Internet, but they are determined to be ahead of the curve when the ta...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 17 weeks ago

Last night at the Thomson Reuters building in Times Square, Jack Shafer of Slate.com moderated a panel for millennium journalism entitled Audience an...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 18 weeks ago

The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cSean Hannity Uses Glenn Beck's Protest Footagewww.thedailyshow.comWebNewser: MSNBC.com and Onvia h...

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In Gawker - Posted 19 weeks ago

Politico it is a tiny niche newspaper in DC with a money-losing website is expanding! They are going to do a local news thing out there in Washi...

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In Gawker - Posted 25 weeks ago

In your fading Friday media column: America's most august lefty magazine learns how to makes Ca$h the Ebay way, Ivy League murder obsession explained,...

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In Gawker - Posted 27 weeks ago

A public memorial for longtime CBS News anchor Walter Cronkite was held earlier today at Lincoln Center. Here, a selection of the tributes, from two p...

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In Gawker - Posted 28 weeks ago

In your buttermilk-battered Wednesday media column: the NYT cafeteria gets a sterling review, Jack Shafer is a night-wandering insomniac, Graydon Cart...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlNY - Posted 29 weeks ago

The New York Times reported last night that -- starting this morning -- Slate.com is replacing its Today's Papers aggregator with a new Slatest fe...

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In Gawker - Posted 32 weeks ago

In your leaky Wednesday media column: A DC editor accidentally forwards an email convo with a reporter about Blackwater, which we reproduce for you in...

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In Gawker - Posted 32 weeks ago

Ed Henry is still bitter about a college rejection letter; Jack Shafer might be an actual robot and Susan Orlean's laptop is l33t. The Twitterati reve...

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In Gawker - Posted 32 weeks ago

So you know how the newspaper industry has long been whining incessantly about the internet killing journalism? Well, this isn't the first time they'v...

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In mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA - Posted 50 weeks ago

Jack Shafer writes in his column Bring Back Yellow Journalism in Slate:But every now and again, I wish the newspapers landing on my doorstep contain...

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In Gawker - Posted 51 weeks ago

Jack Shafer has had it with the weepy emails about how you lost Little Timmy forever to some overdose. He's a busy man. Save it for Cary Tennis. [via ...

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