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YouTube Launches Reporter Center|Wikipedia Co-Founder Helped The Times|Hachette Reorganizes Auto Brands|Atlantic City Paper's Editor Says Goodbye With Top Ten List|Spitzer Blogs For HuffPo - Posted June 29, 2009
WebNewser: YouTube launched its Reporters Center today, featuring instructional videos, tips and advice from journalists like Katie Couric, Bob Woodward, The New York Times's Nicholas Kristof, and Arianna Huffington. New York Times: More information about the lengths the Times went to to keep reporter David Rohde's kidnapping off the media's radar: Wikipedia... [FishBowlNY]

YouTube Launches Reporter Center|Wikipedia Co-Founder Helped The Times|Hachette Reorganizes Auto Brands|Atlantic City Paper's Editor Says Goodbye With Top Ten List|Spitzer Blogs For HuffPo - Posted June 29, 2009
WebNewser: YouTube launched its Reporters Center today, featuring instructional videos, tips and advice from journalists like Katie Couric, Bob Woodward, The New York Times's Nicholas Kristof, and Arianna Huffington. New York Times: More information about the lengths the Times went to to keep reporter David Rohde's kidnapping off the media's radar: Wikipedia... [FishBowlNY]

Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years - Posted June 29, 2009
If one thing could push Michael Jackson's death off the front pages of news Web sites around New York, it is the sentencing of Ponzi scheme perpetrator Bernard Madoff. Earlier today, a federal judge sentenced Madoff to 150 years in prison -- the maximum sentence. Madoff's attorneys had requested a 12-year sentence,... [FishBowlNY]

Madoff Sentenced To 150 Years - Posted June 29, 2009
If one thing could push Michael Jackson's death off the front pages of news Web sites around New York, it is the sentencing of Ponzi scheme perpetrator Bernard Madoff. Earlier today, a federal judge sentenced Madoff to 150 years in prison -- the maximum sentence. Madoff's attorneys had requested a 12-year sentence,... [FishBowlNY]

On The Menu: Gannett Might Be Bankrupt, But HuffPo's Expanding - Posted June 23, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, GalleyCat's Jason Boog and editorial director Rebecca Fox barreled through technical difficulties to discuss some breaking media headlines of the day. This morning, Rebecca and Jason discussed news that USA TODAY publisher Gannett might have to declare bankruptcy and the launch of The... [FishBowlNY]

On The Menu: Gannett Might Be Bankrupt, But HuffPo's Expanding - Posted June 23, 2009
Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, GalleyCat's Jason Boog and editorial director Rebecca Fox barreled through technical difficulties to discuss some breaking media headlines of the day. This morning, Rebecca and Jason discussed news that USA TODAY publisher Gannett might have to declare bankruptcy and the launch of The... [FishBowlNY]

HuffPo Launches New York Page - Posted June 23, 2009
Our sister blog WebNewser has news about The Huffington Post. One week after announcing the appointment of a new CEO, the online pub has launched a new section: Huffington Post New York. The new section, which launched yesterday with blog posts from with blog posts from Nora Ephron, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.),... [FishBowlNY]

Friday's RTCA Dinner Wrap Up|Meredith Titles Show Ad Growth In July|Gawker's Denton Says He's Not Bored|NYT's Pogue Takes Heat For Speaker's Fee|Dumenco Continues Anti-HuffPo Campaign - Posted June 22, 2009
FishbowlDC: Coverage of the Radio & Television Correspondent's Association Dinner, including reviews of keynote speaker John Hodgman. minOnline: Four of the top five magazines showing ad sales growth in July are Meredith titles: Fitness, Family Circle, Ladies' Home Journal and More. Flex rounded out the top five. Washington Post: Howard Kurtz interviews Gawker's... [FishBowlNY]

Kidnapped NYT Reporter's Escape Brings Press Blackout To Light - Posted June 22, 2009
Over the weekend, news broke that Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter David Rohde had escaped from captivity in Afghanistan, where he had been held for the past seven months. The news brought relief to a community overwhelmed by stories of violence against and arrests of journalists in Iran and the... [FishBowlNY]

Columbia Panel Examines Business Press Post-Crisis: "They Followed Conventional Wisdom" - Posted June 17, 2009
Last night's panel (from left to right): Ackman, Starkman, Madrick and Morgenson Last night, we headed up town to Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism for a panel discussing the future of business journalism. The panel, which was called "Now What? Business Journalism After the Meltdown," featured New York Times assistant business and... [FishBowlNY]

Columbia Panel Examines Business Press Post-Crisis: "They Followed Conventional Wisdom" - Posted June 17, 2009
Last night's panel (from left to right): Ackman, Starkman, Madrick and Morgenson Last night, we headed up town to Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism for a panel discussing the future of business journalism. The panel, which was called "Now What? Business Journalism After the Meltdown," featured New York Times assistant business and... [FishBowlNY]

Updated: Huffington Post Gets New CEO - Posted June 15, 2009
Eric Hippeau, managing partner of venture capital firm SoftBank Capital, has been named CEO of The Huffington Post. Hippeau, a HuffPo board member, is taking over for Betsy Morgan, who joined the online pub in October 2007 from CBSNews.com. She is leaving the company and vacating her spot on the board,... [FishBowlNY]

Mirror Awards Take Heat For Honoring Huffington - Posted June 1, 2009
Advertising Age's Simon Dumenco is outraged that Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications is awarding Arianna Huffington its Fred Dressler Lifetime Achievement Award at next week's Mirror Awards, and not just because AdAge has never won a Mirror prize. Dumenco is upset because, to him, Huffington represents all that... [FishBowlNY]

Huffington Post Expands Business Side With Two New Positions - Posted May 27, 2009
As other media companies contract, the Huffington Post continues to expand, and its adding people who can bring in more money to fund its expansion. Today, the online pub announced that its had added a CFO, Eric Ashman, formerly CFO at TheStreet.com. Additionally, HuffPo said ex-Elle associate publisher Samantha Fennell will be... [FishBowlNY]

Obama Presser: 'Sam Stein, Huffington Post -- Where's Sam?' - Posted February 10, 2009
Those of you watching President Barack Obama's first national press conference last night — and due to the blanket press coverage it was hard to miss — may have done a small double take when the President called on Sam Stein of The Huffington Post for a question. Considering the... [FishBowlNY]

Obama Presser: 'Sam Stein, Huffington Post -- Where's Sam?' - Posted February 10, 2009
Those of you watching President Barack Obama's first national press conference last night — and due to the blanket press coverage it was hard to miss — may have done a small double take when the President called on Sam Stein of The Huffington Post for a question. Considering the... [FishBowlNY]

Top 2008 News Stories that Don't Begin With 'O' - Posted December 23, 2008
Barack Obama is not the only top story of 2008! Over at The Morning Delivery Bill Lucey has done some digging and uncovered websites such as HuffPo, Salon, and yours truly (technically mediabistro.com) who crowned others the most newsworthy this year (hello Sarah Palin!). You can find his full... [FishBowlNY]

The Huffington Post's World Page to Highlight 'Global Stories and Voices' - Posted December 4, 2008
FBNY has more details on The Huffington Post's newly launched World News page. According to HuffPo the page will include content from "editorial partners with correspondents in more than 50 countries" as well as "foreign policy experts and advocates." Says Arianna: "As the recent Mumbai attacks made so painfully... [FishBowlNY]

The Huffington Post Takes On the World - Posted December 3, 2008
Looks like The Huffington Post is set to go international. The website has just added a World News page to its already packed masthead. And considering the terrible news out of Mumbai this weekend and the apparent inability of the U.S. media to deal with it, maybe the timing... [FishBowlNY]

The Huffington Post Gets $25 Million in Funding - Posted December 1, 2008
Recession? Not according to The Huffington Post! After months of speculation about the future of Arianna Huffington's website post the election — would traffic drop off? would she sell it? — HuffPo has just announced it has secured $25 million in funding from the California based venture capital... [FishBowlNY]

Post Election News Slump Hitting Politico, TheAtlantic.com Thriving - Posted November 21, 2008
There's been plenty of talk the last few weeks about a post-election viewer slump both online and on television. Over at 538.com Nate Silver has taken his pollster powers and applied them to politically-oriented websites to see how these sites are faring now that the election has concluded. The results... [FishBowlNY]