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The Worldwide Leader in Dong Shots

A profile of A.J. Daulerio, editor of Deadspin and procurer of, among other things, cell phone pics of Brett Favre’s penis.

Gabriel Sherman GQ Feb 2011 15min Permalink

Best Article Media

The Web Is a Customer Service Medium

But the web is not just some kind of magic all-absorbing meta-medium. It's its own thing. And like other media it has a question that it answers better than any other. That question is: Why wasn't I consulted?

Paul Ford Ftrain.com Jan 2011 10min Permalink

Business Tech Media

Huffing and Puffing

On the (disputed) origins of the Huffington Post.

William D. Cohan Vanity Fair Feb 2011 Permalink

Business Media

The New Gawker Media

Nick Denton is rebooting his entire Gawker empire—and his vision is drawn more from TV than blogs.

Felix Salmon Reuters Dec 2010 25min Permalink

Politics Media

An Interview With WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange

The unedited transcript of an interview with Julian Assange for the cover story of Forbes’ December issue. His next target? A major U.S. bank.

Andy Greenberg, Julian Assange Forbes Nov 2010 20min Permalink

Business Media

Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing

Its editors still live in different cities, still work different careers, and still treat Boing Boing as a (lucrative) hobby.

Rob Walker Fast Company Dec 2010 Permalink

Tech Media

My Summer on the Content Farm

The perpetually underpaid author takes a moonlighting job with Demand Media, publisher of search-engine optimized articles with titles like “Hair Styles for Women Over 50 With Glasses”, absurdity ensues.

Jessanne Collins The Awl Nov 2010 10min Permalink

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The Long Tail

The article that spawned a school of thought; an elegy for the age of the megahit and a primer for the niche-based future.

Chris Anderson Wired Oct 2004 20min Permalink

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Search and Destroy

A profile of Nick Denton.

Ben McGrath New Yorker Oct 2010 40min Permalink

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The Hamster Wheel

In the last decade, newsrooms across the country have adopted a “do more with less” strategy. It’s a kamikaze mission.

Dean Starkman Columbia Journalism Review Sep 2010 15min Permalink

World Media

All the News That’s Fit to Animate

Jimmy Lai, a Hong Kong tabloid tycoon, thinks he’s found the future of journalism: an animation assembly line that can crank out clips recreating–or anticipating, or imagining–breaking news.

Michael Kaplan Wired Aug 2010 20min Permalink

Science Health Media

Huff Po is crazy about your health

The cozy relationship between “the internet newspaper” and bogus medicine.

Rahul K. Parikh Salon Jul 2009 15min Permalink

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The Savior of Condé Nast

Scott Dadich, 34, has been described by a former boss as a “combination of Pelé and Jesus” and is now tasked with figuring out the future of the magazine. All he’s got in his new Times Square office: an iPad and a book of George Lois’ Esquire covers.

John Koblin The New York Observer Aug 2010 Permalink

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“Paywall Will Underperform”

An interview with Clay Shirky on “why no medium has ever survived the indifference of 25-year-olds.”

Decca Aitkenhead The Guardian Jul 2010 10min Permalink

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Look at me!

A young journalist’s low-paid odyssey through publications from the Hong Kong iMail to Gawker adrift in the “nothing-based economy.”

Maureen Tkacik Columbia Journalism Review May 2010 30min Permalink

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Rage Machine

Andrew Breitbart’s empire of bluster.

Rebecca Mead New Yorker May 2010 30min Permalink

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How to Save the News

Yeah, you’ve seen that headline before. The difference? This time it’s not journalists trying to do the saving. It’s Google.

James Fallows The Atlantic May 2010 Permalink

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Issue 9: The Intellectual Situation

The editors of N+1 recap the revolution that is/was the internet with pit-stops to survey the Bolshevik Revolution, the NYT’s messy relationship with tech, and the value of an ad.

Editors of N+1 n+1 Apr 2010 35min Permalink

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The Man the White House Wakes Up To

How the daily e-mail from Mike Allen, Politico’s star reporter, has become a morning ritual for Washington’s elite.

Mark Leibovich New York Times Magazine Apr 2010 Permalink

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