Remember 1995? I do. I was ten, I lived in Germany, and during the summer of that year my Dad bought me a magazine that would go on to inspire me to go into the magazine industry.
I had been into videogames for a few years, after I got my first Game Players, my love for [...]

Is it tacky to quote yourself? Let’s see, back in my second post here I was talking about Gawker and blogmills and their relation to the media. Toward the end I wrote something like this:
“…but what’d I’d like to read is a comparison of the biggest, most successful of these blogs, Gizmodo and Kotaku, with [...]

One of my favorite things to write about here is how the media covers Britney Spears. It should be no surprise, then, that today I’ve chosen to write about how the media covers Britney Spears.
David Samuels has a pretty expansive article in this month’s Atlantic where he follows a team of the paparazzi that keep [...]

I don’t know if you saw the nude pictures of Lindsay Lohan NY Mag printed recently, but chances are you did.
This cool story in Forbes tells the business repercussions:
“For a site that’s averaged around a million page views a day lately, the results were stunning. NYmag.com recorded a total of more than 40 million page [...]

James O’Shea, editor of the Los Angeles Times, was fired earlier this week. Important because this is the third editor the Times has been through in the past three years, and because O’Shea left with some biting remarks about how the LA Times is run, and about the newspaper industry in general. Everyone seems [...]