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Former Republican Senate Candidate Looks to Expand Local News Programming at His Station, WBIN - Posted October 7, 2011
Bill Binnie, a former Republican U.S. senate candidate, is planning to significantly expand local news programming at his eponymous station WBIN. "We see a real opportunity for an... [TVSpy]

jPad: Initial Thoughts On Some News/Journalism iPad Apps - Posted May 31, 2011
Part two in an ongoing series. Click here for part one. Waiting for me on Thursday after I got home from work was my new iPad 2. I was quite excited - the (relatively long) wait was over and I could start exploring what all the hype over the revolutionary gadget was... [10,000 Words]

Navigating Journalism Online: An Interview with George Kelly - Posted April 28, 2011
[caption id="attachment_3610" align="alignright" width="200" caption="George Kelly, Online Coordinator for the Contra Costa Times"][/caption] As newspapers and other traditional print media outlets make their way through the online atmosphere, it's important to take time... [10,000 Words]

Navigating Journalism Online: An Interview with George Kelly - Posted April 28, 2011
[caption id="attachment_3610" align="alignright" width="200" caption="George Kelly, Online Coordinator for the Contra Costa Times"][/caption] As newspapers and other traditional print media outlets make their way through the online atmosphere, it's important to take time... [SocialTimes.com]

The Top 25 Newspapers on Twitter - Posted April 5, 2011
The Wrap calculated the American newspapers with the most Twitter follows, and compared the results to a similar list compiled five months ago. It's... [FishbowlNY]

The Washington Post launches a new site design - Posted March 14, 2011
Sometime amidst the coverage of earthquake and tsunami in Japan, The Washington Post rolled out a fresh new design for its homepage, navigation and most of its subsections over the weekend. The new design is much more modern and clean than the old homepage that looked like something out of the late... [TVSpy]

Newspapers Bet You'll Pay for Ad-Free Content - Posted January 25, 2011
Ongo, a new subscription based news service backed by the Washington Post, Gannett, and the New York Times, is betting that users will pay $6.99 a month for ad free online news. Founder Al... [WebNewser - SocialTimes.com]

Michael Wilbon's Final Washington Post Column - Posted December 6, 2010
After more than 31 years, Michael Wilbon filed his last column f... [SportsNewser]

End Of An Era As Michael Wilbon Leaving WaPo - Posted November 18, 2010
In the latest sign that newspapers are a dying breed, Washington Post columnist Michael Wilbon is ... [SportsNewser]

Washington Post Has New Video For iPad App - Posted November 9, 2010
The Washington Post has a new ... [eBookNewser]

'Washington Post' Sponsors #Election, Hosts Twittercast - Posted November 2, 2010
Unsurprisingly, the top Twitter trending topic for today is #Election. After all, it's Election Day and the Washington Post has paid to make sure it... [PRNewser]

Pulitzer Journo Barton Gellman Joins Time - Posted February 12, 2010
TIME magazine has hired two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Washington Post journalist ... [FishbowlNY]

Michael Wolff Practices Irresponsible Tweeting, On Purpose - Posted January 25, 2010
Over the weekend, Michael Wolff sent out a Tweet speculating that Rupert Murdoch would be selling two of his ... [FishbowlNY]

FishbowlNY's 2009 Lists: In Memoriam - Posted December 28, 2009
Our favorite part of any award show is the memorial montage commemorating the lives of all those who passed away in the past year. While this year's headlines were populated by the tragic deaths of celebrities and other bold-faced names -- from Michael Jackson and ... [FishbowlNY]

Knight Foundation Pledges $200K To Huffington Post Investigative Fund - Posted December 22, 2009
Looking to the New Year, we're sure that non-profit journalism is going to play a big role in the world of media and reporting. The Huffington Post's non-profit arm, The Huffington Post Investigative Fund, came ... [FishbowlNY]

WSJ Reveals Plagiarism - Posted December 4, 2009
The Wall Street Journal posted a notice to readers yesterday revealing that a November 10 "New Global Indian" online column by freelance writer ... [FishbowlNY]

Washington Post Goes Local, Closes NY Office - Posted November 25, 2009
Let the pre-Thanksgiving bad news dump continue. Washington Post editor Marcus Brauchli ... [FishbowlNY]

Reuters Hosts Panel On "Shaky" Audience-Media Relationships - Posted November 13, 2009
Last night at the Thomson Reuters building in Times Square, Jack Shafer of Slate.com moderated a panel for millennium journalism entitled "Audience and the Media: A Shaky Marriage." The speakers at the event each came from a mainstream ne... [FishbowlNY]

Comcast, GE Close To Deal On NBCU|WaPo Newsroom Fight|Time Inc.'s Vivek Shah Departs|Gannett's New Guidelines|Business Press Struggles|Jay Leno - Posted November 2, 2009
TVNewser: Comcast ... [FishbowlNY]

David Carr, Columbia University, and the Future of Journalism - Posted October 20, 2009
New York Times' David Carr, always ahead of the curve. Two days ago, a full 24-hours before the news of the 100 staffers being cut from the big gray lady even hit the stands,... [FishbowlNY]

New York Magazine Figures Out Where News Comes From - Posted October 19, 2009
New York Magazine suffered a giant blow last week when it lost its owner Bruce Wasserstein. Still, the publication trucks on, just as fun and relevant as ever, and perhaps e... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo Baghdad Bureau Chief Heads To NYT - Posted September 22, 2009
Editor & Publisher reports today that The Washington Post's Baghdad bu... [FishbowlNY]

HuffPost Technology|CNBC Cancels Kneale|A Newspaper Bailout Bill?|Atlantic.com Blogger's Plea Could Save Magazine|Times Co. Corrects SEC Filing - Posted September 21, 2009
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Econ... [FishbowlNY]

HuffPo Launches Denver Local Site - Posted September 16, 2009
Yesterday, The Huffington Post launched its third locally focused site HuffPost Denver, just over a month after Howard Kurtz... [FishbowlNY]

SNL Character MacGruber Gets A Movie|31M Tune In To MJ Memorial|Froomkin Details HuffPo Job|WaPo Among Cyber Attack Targets|For Goodness Sake, Put On A Pair Of Pants On Friday - Posted July 8, 2009
AgencySpy: Following in the footsteps of the Coneheads, Mary Katherine Gallagher and Stuart Smalley, MacGruber (played by ... [FishbowlNY]

Washington Post Blogger Froomkin Finds New Home At HuffPo - Posted July 7, 2009
Our colleagues over at FishbowlDC have news about a new post for former Washington Post blogger ... [FishbowlNY]

Before The Scandal, WaPo Publisher Weymouth Talked New Revenue Streams At Aspen Ideas Fest - Posted July 6, 2009
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Slate's Emily Bazelon Confronts Twitter Impersonator -- And Now They're Facebook Friends - Posted June 24, 2009
Emily Bazelon, Slate.com editor and founder of recently launched Double X, has an int... [FishbowlNY]

Twitter Calls Out CNN, But Kurtz Misses The Boat - Posted June 15, 2009
Over the weekend, tempers flared over CNN's coverage -- or lack thereof -- of the Iranian election and subsequent protests. Frustrated viewers took to Twitter to voice their concern over CNN's oversight or lack of interest in the foreign controversy, creating the hashtag #cnnfail, which was a tr... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo Readies For Newsroom Integration|"Jon & Kate" Web Site's Traffic Soars|MB Bloggers Get Real|Tension's High At Boston Globe - Posted June 3, 2009
FishbowlDC:... [FishbowlNY]

Menu: Did NYT Miss A Chance To Break The Watergate Story? - Posted May 26, 2009
Our new FishbowlNY editor Amanda Ernst joined the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast this morning. ... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo Names Style Editors|"Today" Show Promotes Vlogger|Elle In "The City"|Paste Raises $166K|Charting The End Of Newspapers - Posted May 22, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c... [FishbowlNY]

Newsweek Editor Profiled In Advance Of Relaunch - Posted May 13, 2009
Next Monday, Newsweek will reveal a new, reformatted, slicker version of itself. If you want a little hint as to what the new Newsweek will be like, you can check out the New York Observer... [FishbowlNY]

paidContent.org - Video SEO EveryZing Raises $8.25M Third Round ... - Washington Post - Posted May 11, 2009
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U.S. Government Quitting Print Media - Posted April 23, 2009
In a cost saving measure, the Department of Homeland Security told its employees to give up subscriptions to papers such as ... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo to Offer Another Round of Buyouts - Posted March 26, 2009
Even as word gets out that Washington Post Co. CEO Donald Graham... [FishbowlNY]

WaPo Forces ABC to 'Fix' Its Web Series Name - Posted March 22, 2009
ABC News' decision a few weeks back to name their new daily Web series 'The Fix' struck more than a few people as strange. Those of you who follow politics will already know that ... [FishbowlNY]

Forbes.com Ranks the Liberal Media Elite - Posted January 23, 2009
Forbes.com has compiled a list of the 25 Most Influential Liberals in US Media, which depending on who you are includes most of the East Coast, or begins and ends with ... [FishbowlNY]

NYT Newsstand Copies Already Sold Out? - Posted January 21, 2009
We're hearing that there is not a newsstand copy of New York Times to be found in NYC at the moment. Are people finding this to be true? Is it because people are snapping up multiple copies? UPDATE: Apparently the Times building itself, on 41st Street be... [FishbowlNY]

Morning Media Menu: January 16 - Posted January 16, 2009
Today on Morning Media Menu — our audio podcast based around the mediabistro.com Morning Newsfeed and mediabistro.com blog network — we talk about yesterday's plane crash on the Hudson and the fact that everyone survived(!)... [FishbowlNY]

Election '08: Even in Hindsight the Media Loved Obama More - Posted November 10, 2008
The Monday morning election quarterbacking continues. Perhaps you won't be surprised to hear that, according to those who write about such things, the media did not perform well. Over at the Washington Post the resident ombudsman ... [FishbowlNY]

Obama Sells Out Dead Tree Editions of Local Newspapers - Posted November 5, 2008
We've noticed a number of people twittering and facebooking today that they couldn't find a copy of various papers this morning. Turns out they weren't imagining it! The Daily News sold out of even the extra printed copies of their regular morning edition and plan... [FishbowlNY]

Page Six Magazine Hires Sara Cardace - Posted October 13, 2008
FBNY has confirmed that Sara Cardace will be joining Page Six Magazine as a senior staff writer, beginning October 23. Cardace is currently a contributing writer at New York Magazine, as well as the interviews editor at Vulture, nymag.com's arts and entertainment ... [FishbowlNY]

Fox Calls CNN "Partisan" In New Ad - Posted August 25, 2008
Fox News is taking on CNN in another print ad today. Last night TVNewser told you about the ad taken out in the Chicago Tribune. Now HuffingtonPost has the story behind another ad which is running today in the The Washington Post, Multichannel News and The Wall Street Journal... [TVNewser]

WaPo Names Brauchli Top Editor - Posted July 7, 2008
Politico, FishbowlDC and Portfolio have been predicting it ... [FishbowlNY]

LAT In 90 Seconds - Posted January 29, 2008
Did George Clooney Call The Cops on Brit? Probably not, but consider this HuffPo item when reading today's lede: "Police ... [FishbowlLA]

Rising Star Finalists - Posted February 6, 2007
After the jump, you'll find the finalists for FishbowlDC's Rising Star competition. Congrats to everyone for being nominated and making it into the 2nd round in our first "Rising Star" competition. The winners will accompany mediabistro.com and Fis... [FishbowlDC]