‘Smart’ Electric Utility Meters, Intended to Create Savings, Instead Prompt Revolt is a New York Times story that perhaps suggests a deeper truth: People don’t want their utilities to get smart on them. Except, occasionally, on request. Like, when a bill one month is strangely high.
These paragraphs encapsulate several [...]
In response to yesterday's column by David Carr that accused the Wall Street Journal of post-Murdoch news filtering towards the conservative, WSJ editor-in-chief Robert Thomson replied that the New York Times is jealous of the Journal's success. 
Gawker has published a list of the New York Times staff who are thought to have accepted the optional buyouts offered in [...] On Sunday, the New York Times published an Editors' Note detailing a conflict of interest:
The "Place" feature about Miami in the T magazine travel issue on Nov. 22 included a reference to the 8 oz. Burger Bar. The writer has had a long personal relationship with a co-owner' [...]
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Google announced a new project they have been working on with the New York Times and the Washington Post, called News by Topics. Displayed above is an example topic, The War In Afghanistan.
I like the timeline feature, with various stories arrayed by date, and displayed in [...]
The New York Times was in some good business news yesterday showing a slowdown in print ad decreases and reporting that it will not sell the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. 
Google has launched a new type of topics page as an experiment, in partnership with The Washington Post and The New York Times, called Living Stories.
Here is a video explaining the concept:
Saul Hansell, the veteran technology reporter and columnist for The York Times has left the paper to join AOL's new "Seed" unit, a mostly automated news site.
The site been getting some mixed notices lately from some media watchers.
Saul is the first "live" journalist to join the new venture. ' [...]
I spend a lot of time talking about the notion of "collaboration." So whenever I have a good example of the value of collaboration, I try to highlight it.
Only one month after a Spot.Us-funded project was also published in the New York Times, we have another great example [...]
The deadline for the previously announced New York Times optional buyouts was yesterday and according to a memo sent out by editor Bill Keller last Friday, the paper will be far short of meeting its goal of having 100 staff accept the offer. This will force [...] 
The final holdout labour union of The Boston Globe has approved changes to its labour contract similar to those that it rejected this past June while its parent company, New York Times Co., was threatening to sell or shut down the paper, reports Editor [...] 
Before we blog focus, I strongly recommend that you read David Carr’s New York Times piece called The Fall and Rise of Media. It’s a pretty extraordinary recent history of traditional media vs. “new media,” New York City, and the massive and convulsive changes that continue [...]
SAN FRANCISCO -- At the NewTeeVee conference this month, we caught up with Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies. The company has launched a new server appliance for transcoding live HD video at very fast rates, "faster than real time," the company says.
New York Times reporter Ashlee [...]
Earlier this month, eBay launched Inside Source, a style/fashion/shopping guide published by the auction giant. Here's the launch story in The New York Times.
Last week we caught up with the publication's editor Meredith Barnett at the eBay store, a temporary promotional facility on 57th Street. She tells us [...]
The Chicago News Cooperative is a startup news organization
serving the local Chicago area as an internet-based nonprofit news service. The longest thread in the history of this blog belongs to Why WQXR is better off as a public radio station, which I posted on July 26, and still has comments this month. The post followed a complex deal by which the New York Times divested its legacy classical [...]
Taboola is not a Middle Eastern grain dish, but an Israeli start-up that provides a solution to surface recommended videos for visitors to CNN.com, HowCast, 5min, Demand Media, the NBA, and now on The New York.
The company has placed cookies on some 50 million unique users and has built [...]
The New York Times is launching its new Chicago edition today, reports Editor & Publisher. The new edition, which will be included each week in the Friday and Sunday New York Times, will be composed of two additional pages of local news, policy, sports, [...] 
The New York Sun, was once a conservative 5 day paper published in the NYC region from 2002-2008 and was intended to pick up on the New York Times' lack of local coverage. It stopped publication on September 30th 2008 due to financial devastation.' [...] 
The circulation and printing offices of several large national and local papers have been raided by investigators of the Manhattan district attorney's office in a union corruption investigation.
