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Now that the current sale process is complete, the Philadelphia daily papers have their fifth owner in six years. Below is a detailed time line of events, with links to Poynter Online coverage on this sale and previous ownership transitions… Read more
Here is a compilation of Ben Montgomery’s tweets from his father’s wake and funeral (related story):
Heading to Oklahoma to bury my father. Maybe I’ll live tweet this shit.
I wonder how many other people on… Read more
Entrepreneurial journalists need to be focused on social media in every facet of their businesses, writes Steve Buttry.
Buttry, who is director of community engagement at TBD.com, highlights seven services (Twitter and YouTube make the list twice)… Read more
Ben Elowitz, CEO of Web publisher Wetpaint, says that with the rise of social networks, search engine optimization will inevitably be replaced by social media optimization. SEO techniques such as “keywords, hacks, paid links, and technical engineering” worked well… Read more
Elusive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is scheduled to appear in London on Monday with Daniel Ellsberg, best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1971. The appearance follows the Friday release of about 400,000… Read more
When Spiro Agnew was compelled to resign the vice presidency after pleading no contest to tax evasion charges, I made the mistake of accepting an invitation to appear on David Susskind’s televised talk show. It was, I naively thought,… Read more
Mark Pincus, CEO of FarmVille creator Zynga, said Thursday that companies like his, Facebook, Pandora and others are still in the midst of building out the infrastructure of the social Web.
MG Siegler writes that Pincus described the… Read more
These excerpts were transcribed from the Oct. 21, 2010 “Talk of the Nation,” as NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard and NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik discussed the news organization’s decision to end its contract with analyst Juan Williams.
Alicia Shepard:… Read more