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Parents Grill Department of Education Over Private Student Data Cloud

"I know that you're just a messenger, so I want to make sure you deliver this message properly to your supervisors," parent and City Council candidate Jelani Mashariki told the Department of Education's deputy chief academic officer Adina Lopatin at a Borough Hall town hall packed with families Mond ... More >>

Who is Stockpiling and Sharing Private Information About New York Students?

Most New York City public school parents don't know that their child's personal information will be available to third-party companies through a new data-sharing initiative.   Parents and advocates opposed to the new initiative believe it will put sensitive student information at risk and allow com ... More >>

After Gun-Control Talk Reportedly Banned on Fox News, Murdoch Turns to the Post

It appears that media mogul Rupert Murdoch may have some level of, dare I say, morality and compassion inside of him. A day after New York Magazine reported that higher-ups at Fox News directed producers and reporters to avoid engaging in gun-control talk, Murdoch's New York Post published an edit ... More >>

Make Way for More Media Giants: FCC Paving Way for Titans to Cross-Own Entities

The FCC may allow the media landscape in top-20 markets to resemble the one in New York City -- where media mogul Rupert Murdoch is permitted to own television stations and newspapers. The internet has been abuzz for the past month with news that FCC chairman Julius Genachowski circulated a plan to ... More >>

Forbes: Mike Bloomberg Still Has Way More Money Than You Do

Forbes released its 30th annual ranking of the 400 richest Americans yesterday, and there's a 99.9 percent chance that you didn't make the list.Mayor Mike Bloomberg did, though, finishing 10th on the list with a net worth of about $25 billion.But Bloomberg isn't the only person in New York with way ... More >>

New York Post Prints Cartoon Of Muslims Complaining About Surveillance As Terrorists While Debate Rages On

As issues that arose following revelations of the NYPD's zealous surveillance of Muslims throughout the Northeast are still far from being resolved, the New York Post published a cartoon by Sean Delonas depicting those Muslims that see these actions as an invasion of privacy as bomb-making terrorist ... More >>

New York Post Defends Front Page Photo Of Kelly Accuser

​On Thursday, we alerted you to the New York Post's front page, which despicably featured a photo of Greg Kelly's accuser and scare quotes around the word "rape." We weren't the only ones who thought that. Other media outlets like Daily Intel and Jezebel expressed similar sentiments, and a Fac ... More >>

100 Most Powerless New Yorkers

A 'power list' for the rest of us

Anonymous Doesn't Actually Want to Destroy Facebook

​Stop backing up your Facebook photos, because hacker collective Anonymous' plot to kill the 'book was all a big misunderstanding. Not a hoax, exactly; there was once a plan by an Anonymous user named Speakeasy and associates to raise awareness about Facebook's privacy policies and start an al ... More >>

New York Observer Editorial Defends Rupert Murdoch; Jared Kushner is a Close Friend

​An opinion column in today's New York Observer titled "Murdoch and His Critics" calls the UK phone hacking scandal "deplorable" right away, but spends the remaining nine paragraphs defending News Corporation CEO Rupert Murdoch, who happens to be a close personal friend of Observer publisher J ... More >>

Anonymous Members Raided by FBI; Hacker Group Claims to Have News Corp. Emails

​A day after the online sect LulzSecurity pulled their own hack on Rupert Murdoch, members of the most the widely-known hacking collective Anonymous, from which LulzSec spun off, have been raided by the FBI. (There doesn't seem to be a direct connection other than the media attention currently ... More >>

Rupert Murdoch, In Good Company: A Social History of Pieing

​The "woah" moment of Rupert Murdoch's appearance in the British parliament this morning wasn't a revelation in the hacking scandal, it was the attempted pie-attack on the News Corp. patriarch. The pie-thrower, Jonathan May-Bowles, identifies himself on Twitter not only as Jonnie Marbles, but ... More >>

Sean Hoare, News of the World Whistleblower, Found Dead Amid Murdoch Hacking Scandal: 'Not Suspicious'

​Now there's a dead body involved. In the juiciest twist yet, at least for non-media obsessives, the man who helped reignite the investigation into News Corporation's widespread, long-known-about phone hacking was found lifeless in his UK home on Monday. Sean Hoare, who told the New York Times ... More >>

Rudy Giuliani: Don't Rush to Judge Rupert Murdoch; Cops Seek Upper East Side Groper; Pet Store Praised for Ban on Drunk Buying

​• Rudy Giuliani, longtime friend of Rupert Murdoch, says we shouldn't so easily judge Murdoch with regard to that little hacking scandal but should instead, "Give people the presumption of innocence," and not jump to conclusions. (Full disclosure: a law and lobbying firm in which Giuliani i ... More >>

Keith Olbermann Takes New York Times Out to the Ballgame; Anthony Weiner Invests in Them

​Media reporter and movie star David Carr takes on a giant ego in a feature from this weekend's New York Times Magazine, posted online today, about Current TV host Keith Olbermann. After Olbermann's unceremonious exit from MSNBC, the loudmouth anchor spent most of year the silent except for on ... More >>

Roger Ailes of Fox News Thinks Sarah Palin Is a 'Stupid...Idiot...Loose Cannon,' ...or 'Smart'

​The cover of New York magazine this week features another Fox News/Republican party exposé from reporter Gabriel Sherman (see also: "Chasing Fox," Sarah Palin), this time focusing on the network's boss Roger Ailes, who never fails to make an interesting (and infuriating) subject with his pro ... More >>

Osama, Obama Mix-Up Is Because of 'Bin' in Laden; NYC Reporters Fight at City Hall

Above is a newscaster confusing the names "Osama" and "Obama" three times within 30 seconds. She's far from the only one! In fact, it happened enough times in the media that the Columbia Journalism Review decided to look into why. Also in a Friday edition of our daily Press Clips media column: Repor ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden Death Pictures Now in Freedom of Information Act Limbo

​Since President Barack Obama decided that the pictures of Osama Bin Laden were too gruesome to make public, lest they inflame violence or be used as anti-U.S. propaganda, it will be up to journalists to force transparency from the administration. (That, or Obama could have them leaked, thereb ... More >>

Julian Assange Essay Slams New York Times; Vice Media Is Rich as Hell and Respectable

​The relationship between the New York Times and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange soured amid a power struggle, resulting in a detailed account of their break-up from the newspaper in which Assange is described as "a bag lady," as well as "arrogant, thin-skinned, conspiratorial and oddly credu ... More >>

Senator Schumer Coaches Colleagues on Press Call; The Guardian To Expand Stateside

Chuck Schumer, media adviser​On Tuesday morning, a telling little bit of the relationship between high-ranking politicians and the press was exposed when New York Senator Chuck Schumer was caught chatting prematurely on a conference call about the budget process with his fellow lawmakers. Schu ... More >>

Glenn Beck Could Start His Own Channel; Media Matters Sick of Liberals Losing

​When we last hated ourselves enough to spend any time at all thinking about Fox News' best host that cries, Glenn Beck, his people and his bosses were both floating the idea that neither needed the other. Beck's (amazing) ratings have dipped and his shtick has worn a little thin, Fox News whi ... More >>

Huffington Post Folds AOL Sites, Hires a Few More; Howard Stern Sues Sirius Radio

Boss​Arianna Huffington's website, recently joined with (bought by) Tim Armstrong's AOL in an attempt to usurp the internet content throne together, has been making all sorts of media news headlines early in this 2011, and up to this point, they have fit into one of two categories. First, ther ... More >>

Kathleen Parker and Eliot Spitzer Break Up; The Daily Free Until March 21

​The joke possibilities are endless, but we'll leave it to Jay Leno: fact is, Kathleen Parker has departed the show half named after her, CNN's Parker Spitzer, after only four, under-performing months. Starting on Monday, the show will be called In The Arena, "an ensemble program," which still ... More >>

The Daily Loves Dogs and Other Ongoing iPad Newspaper Issues

​It's been just under two weeks since Rupert Murdoch and Apple announced the debut issue of their iPad newspaper The Daily at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. "In this exciting new era, we believe The Daily will be the model for how stories are told and consumed," said Murdoch, the News ... More >>

I Dropped My iPad at the Launch of The Daily

​Rupert Murdoch looked regal. When I got to the revolving doors of The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum it was swarming with people frantically operating smart phones, but I saw beyond them, to the screen assembled against the back wall. It was sixteen iPads wide by sixteen iPads high and there, s ... More >>

Mark Salter Wrote O, the Obama Novel; The Daily Launching For Real This Time

​O: A Presidential Novel is the fictitious telling of the 2012 presidential campaign from an anonymous insider -- or at least "someone who has been in the room with Barack Obama" -- which has been met with a pretty collective "meh" from the media, both when it comes to its mysterious creator a ... More >>

Julian Assange Is Blackmailing Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. With WikiLeaks

​Teasing a forthcoming interview with Julian Assange, the New Statesmen has published excerpts online in which the WikiLeaks founder claims to have "insurance" files on both government and media, including one "broadcast organization" and Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Assange is no strang ... More >>

The 2010 Media Holiday Party Circuit Crash-Map

​For my second-to-last Press Clips, Day 27, we have a very, very special treat. Every year, many of the New York-based media companies who produce a large portion of American media that is consumed across the country gather after months of conspiring...to get shitface drunk. Behold:

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 >>

Fade to Black: Bloomy Schools Pick Cathie Black Is Down for the Count

​ Less than 24 hours after everyone decided that a special panel to evaluate Cathie Black as schools chancellor had to be in the tank for Mayor Bloomberg, the group voted an overwhelming thumbs down for the publishing exec. So much for assumptions. Black got just two out of eight votes on the ... More >>

Sarah Palin's Publisher Suing Gawker: Are the Pageviews Worth the Price? (UPDATED)

​HarperCollins is suing Gawker Media for publishing excerpts of Sarah Palin's new autobiography, America by Heart, before its release date. On Thursday, Palin tweeted: "The publishing world is LEAKING out-of-context excerpts of my book w/out my permission? Isn't that illegal?" Gawker's respons ... More >>

Why the New York Post's iPad App is Amazing, Awesome, and Completely Necessary (Video)

​Remember that time Apple released this thing called the iPad and a bunch of people who worked in media were like ooh I wonder if it's going to save us so pretty wanna touch and everyone else was like it's just a giant fucking iPhone I don't get it and then people went out and bought it? Well, ... More >>

Press Clips: Do Not Let Robert Thomson Behead Anyone This Week, Please

​VICTORY! for a New York City newspaper, while the rest are going down, down, in an earlier round. A new, familiar byline at New York's Vulture, and a new, familiar byline at AgencySpy. The iPad is still just The iPad, but Twitter is definitely still Twitter. Howard Kurtz at The Daily Beast is sti ... More >>

NYC's Golden Gossip Era Fades

Gotham gossip loses grip, fights off rabble. Rattled tattletales tell all.

Anatomy of an Error: Why Nobody Got Fired From the New York Post This Week

Via NYM.​We reported Wednesday on the turmoil an embarrassing New York Post correction caused in the newsroom, fueled by what we heard was rage called down from the top: News Corp owner Rupert Murdoch. Fun times. We've now got more details on what happened, and what came of it.

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TheirSpace?

A rumor that a community-built Web behemoth has become a corporate trap

Viacom Execs Get $100 Mil

CBS parent's stock fell while duo raked in dough for on-the-job training

N.Y.'s Power Couple

Reverend Al Sharpton and Rupert Murdoch join forces to fight television technology

John B. Evans, 1938-2004

A Former Voice Publisher

The Pusillanimous 'Post'

Reporter Sues News Corp. for $10 Million

Pontorno's Complaint

Ex-Murdoch Employee Reveals 'Secret Society'

Executive Bitch Slapping

The Widening Wage Gap Between Male and Female Managers Is a Corporate Equivalent of the Cultural Backlash

Telecom for Dummies

Touring the Media Industrial Complex

Conservatives in Drag

Fox News Wears Veil of Neutrality

Digable Planet Community

Connect Launches Af Am Site as Next Step in Minority Content Empire

Winners Take All

The Seventh Annual Village Voice Sportswriters Poll

Billionaire Boys Club

The Scoundrels among the NBA owners

Rupert's Welfare