Henry Blodget

The Huffington Post Gets Blacker, Howard Kurtz Gets Paid as Press Clips Returns

​Press Clips has long, if intermittently, been the name of the media column at the Village Voice, years ago on paper in the hands of journalists like Sydney Schanberg and Keach Hagey, before being brought to this blog by some untamed rabble-rouser called Foster Kamer. But as a wise man once wr ... More >>

Who is the Media Person of the Year? (or "This Discussion Panel is On Fire, A Play in One Act.")

​At 12PM today at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute -- less than a block away from the Village Voice offices -- a panel discussion sponsored by I Want Media convened to discuss their 9th Media Person of the Year award. The panel -- featuring the New York Times' David Carr, Mediaite's ... More >>

Alex Alvarez Escapes MediaBistro for Abrams Gulag of Mediaite

​Who among New York City's media set has never read a single MediaBistro mailer or blog? Nobody. Which is strange, because it's not like they break crazy news or anything! But it is a clearing house for two things: (1) Everything That Happens in Media, Especially in New York City and (2) Good Tale ... More >>

Press Clips: Jared, Ivanka, and the New York Observer on Gossip Girl (Video)

Target audiences: they happen.​The New York Observer hits the big time, getting a cameo on Gossip Girl. And who from their editorial staff was there? Gawker gets murked by some Taiwanese guys. Business Insider is making another hire. Speaking of which, Media Party Season has arrived, unless, o ... More >>

Press Clips: Joe Pompeo Leaves Business Insider for Yahoo

​The second part of the change-up at Business Insider comes down the transom! A leaked memo about protest at Fox News, and, hey, activists! Here's how to get around those pesky security arrangements. This American Life host Ira Glass is...singing Elliott Smith. Rupert Murdoch has surrendered t ... More >>

Press Clips: Parker Spitzer Goes For Ratings Glory, Doggy Style

​It is no longer hailing, but it's supposed to be freezing outside. Inside, I have a fan blowing on my face. It's Tuesday. Press Clips, Day 12, Late Edition, right here:

Press Clips: "10 Reasons Nick Denton is an Asshole"

​Well, since it's now hailing outside, I'm stuck inside the office until it lets up just enough for me to run from our office to the Astor Place 6 using my emergency Umbrella Mafia-umbrella without getting completely drenched. Might as well do this thing. Press Clips, Day 11, Late "Hailpocolyp ... More >>

How CNN's Parker Spitzer Came and Got Off: The Review

​Last night, our long-awaited dream finally manifested in reality: Eliot Spitzer and That Conservative White Chick With A Pulitzer came on CNN for an hour, and then, got off. Before we knew it, Larry King was farting on Lance Bass, and it was over. Reviews have ranged from the "Eh!" to the "UG ... More >>

The Parker/Spitzer Liveblog!

​Parker/Spitzer, the biggest thing to happen to CNN since Larry King farted on Octomom, is finally here. Our former governor Eliot Spitzer and his foil, the saucy Putlizer-prize winning conservative columnist, Kathleen Parker, are about to go on the air.

Breaking: Koran-Burning Pastor Terry Jones Cancels Koran-Burning in Exchange for Reported Promise to Move 'Ground Zero Mosque'

​Damien Cave, the New York Times' Miami bureau chief, has just Tweeted out that at a press conference, the potential Koran-Burning Pastor Terry Jones of Florida has decided to cancel his Koran-burning. He supposedly got a promise from the Feisel Abdul Rauf, the imam behind Park 51 (AKA the "Gr ... More >>

Facebook Places: It's Basically Foursquare for Facebook (UPDATED) with Yelp

​"This is gonna be a really fun, interesting summer," Mark Zuckerburg noted a few minutes ago from a live, streaming press conference. He was not talking about the lead-up to The Social Network, the movie about what a not-nice person he is. What was he talking about? Facebook Places, which he' ... More >>

Press Clips, Late Day Edition, Day 3: Biters, Fakers, and Mistake-Makers

​Day 3 of Press Clips, and we're....here. I think that chewed pencil is going to be our logo. Anyway: Your late Wednesday media column where we pick apart the things we want to pick apart has arrived. Onward:

Henry Blodget's Money Talks: New Cash, Same Strategy

​Yesterday, The Business Insider's chief Henry Blodget announced a new round of funding to the world in a blog post explaining that the company just scored a cool $3M in the form of backing from a venture capital firm, RRE Ventures. That's more than the company's had since they started. TBI an ... More >>

BlogBeat: The New Yorker Is Working on a Profile of Nick Denton

​After a long hiatus, the column that cost this company a cool mil in advertising has returned! BlogBeat is back, and this week, we're coming out swinging. The New Yorker's working on a forthcoming profile of Gawker Media owner Nick Denton; Guest of a Guest has some disclosure indiscretions; a ... More >>

The Media T-Shirt Project!

​It's Summer, and as we all know, many businesses get slow in the summer. Media is one of these businesses, and in media, you have to diversify in order to stay afloat, or something. It's bad enough you have to concern yourself with the terrible fate of blogger burnout in this heat! But making ... More >>

The New York Times Will Never Burnout of Blogger Burnout

​In today's New York Times Media & Advertising section is an article about blogger burnout. Like many things that get written in the New York Times about bloggers that isn't written by David Carr or Brian Stelter, it sadly merits a blog post making fun of how (A) Insipid and bush-league it i ... More >>

Video: The Business Insider and Henry Blodget Screamed at by Crazyperson for Four Minutes

Since today's apparently the day we clear out all the news of people going apeshit on media properties far and wide, here's this: a guy screaming about blog network The Business Insider, its owner Henry Blodget, and some TBI writers. For three minutes and forty-five seconds. On video. Somewhere in t ... More >>

The Gizmodo iPhone Case: Editor Brian Lam's Off-Record Email to Steve Jobs

​Well, journalists, just remember: Off-record don't mean nothing to a court subpoena. Gizmodo, who had a huge, huge story when they paid for an iPhone prototype that was lost in a bar, is now experiencing that wonderful tidbit of information. Their editor, Brian Lam, shot Steve Jobs' public em ... More >>

SEC Sues Goldman Sachs for Being Goldman Sachs

This case won't be a big deal unless John Paulson (above) becomes a defendant. Don't count on that.The SEC finally accused Goldman Sachs of securities fraud, in a civil suit filed Friday. But this thing sounds a whole lot more dramatic than it really is. For one thing, the name of evil co-conspirato ... More >>

Newsweek Still Has Yet To Learn Valuable Lesson on "Tempting Fate" Apparently

Good christ. Via Henry Blodget at the Business Insider - who simply and astutely titles his post "Uh oh" - here's the new Newsweek cover. In all of its glory. And we do mean "glory."

BlogBeat: Sharon Waxman Won't Be Jacked by Michael Wolff

Michael Wolff will aggregate Sharon Waxman's smile. Sharon Waxman wants to mace Michael Wolff's face.​In this week's Monday BlogBeat, Hollywood blogger Sharon Waxman goes to war with Vanity Fair columnist and Newser entrepreneur Michael Wolff over getting her content stolen; a disgraced New Yo ... More >>

Media Moves: Joe Pompeo Leaves the NY Observer for Business Insider

​Peacing out: Joe Pompeo, managing editor of The New York Observer, leaving the pink paper for Business Insider. The news was broken by Observer media reporter Felix Gillette via Twitter. This comes in the wake of Clusterstock editor John Carney's firing, and the consequent shitshow (also acce ... More >>

Blodget and Salmon on Blodget vs. Salmon: The Last Word

​Last week, a war of words broke out between two fairly notable New York media presences. It was started after an editor was fired last week, the news of which we broke here. And we thought we'd try to end it here, too, by speaking with both about the spat.

Breaking: Clusterstock Editor John Carney Fired by Business Insider

​Gawker Media owner Nick Denton Tweeted earlier this evening, asking if the rumors he'd heard about Business Insider editor John Carney's firing were true. Well, Nick, here's your answer: John Carney, managing editor of financial news and gossip vertical Clusterstock at Business Insider, was l ... More >>

Wall Street Crime Blockbuster: Goldman's Lucrative Bets Against America

One of the year's biggest corporate-crime blockbusters, and the New York Times publishes it on Christmas Eve, when as few people as possible will read it: In "Banks Bundled Bad Debt, Bet Against It and Won," Gretchen Morgenson and Louise Story reveal how Goldman Sachs (and others) gamed the system, ... More >>

How New York City's Seven Newspapers Are (Nearly) Surviving

Print is undead—and NYC is the only city where you can still read all about it

Rejecting Allah-like powers, Obama vows end to 'dictating' in Mideast

Al Jazeera's morning report, proving once again that it's ridiculous censorship for U.S. cable outlets to not carry the Arab world's most powerful news outlet. Dick Cheney's dream of an imperial vice presidency lording over all the world's oil fields is now officially dead. President Barack Obam ... More >>

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