It’s easy to see the downside of citizen journalism when right-wing bloggers attack rape victims, but those same tools have also been used to expose government secrets and reveal crucial information… Read more »
First Look Media seems to be suffering from a severe case of management dysfunction, and that could be because the company seems to have built an elaborate corporate structure before it… Read more »
The Intercept — a magazine that is part of Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media — has written a piece about the departure of Matt Taibbi, who was supposed to be running… Read more »
Billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar says First Look Media, the new journalistic venture he is backing with a $250-million investment, will now be focusing more on a series of experiments aimed… Read more »
John Cook, editor of First Look Media’s investigative news vehicle The Intercept, says the site is still trying to hire writers and editors and put an editorial structure together, and so… Read more »
It’s easy to get demoralized by all of the upheaval and chaos in the media sphere, but there are plenty of reasons for optimism about both media in general and journalism,… Read more »
eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture — on which he plans to spend as much as $250 million — is now known as First Look Media, and has an unusual… Read more »
Is objectivity in journalism an outdated concept that has been replaced by transparency and disclosure, or is that a recipe for unbalanced coverage? Glenn Greenwald and the NYT’s Bill Keller debated… Read more »
Those who think journalism isn’t dying but being reborn now have two major experiments to watch — Jeff Bezos trying to revive the Washington Post and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar launching… Read more »
The Washington Post’s delay in responding to complaints about a piece that one of its columnists wrote is just another sign of how out of touch many media outlets are when… Read more »