TBD.com, a Washington-based experiment in online hyper-local journalism from Allbritton Communications, creators of the political news site Politico, launched this morning with much fanfare. Whether the new startup’s blend of local… Read more »
The most interesting thing about WikiLeaks and its release of 90,000 secret Afghan documents earlier this week isn’t the details of the U.S.-backed war in Afghanistan — it’s what the incident… Read more »
Mark Josephson, CEO of hyper-local news aggregator Outside.in, isn’t concerned about AOL pouring $50 million into its Patch.com hyper-local news operation. He says that while they are both going after local… Read more »
News consumption has become a fundamentally social experience, and consumers are no longer loyal to a specific site or a specific new outlet, according to a joint research report from the… Read more »
Legendary Canadian folk singer Gordon Lightfoot joins the growing list of celebrities that Twitter has reported were dead when they were in fact very much alive. But all the social network… Read more »
Saul Hansell, who left the New York Times to help run AOL’s new Seed project, says his first big project is finding writers who will interview every single one of the… Read more »