Back To School Kindles
The freshman class of 2009 can be expected to arrive as every other freshman class does in new clothes, excited, well-scrubbed and horny, but many of them will also have Kindles under their arm.
The freshman class of 2009 can be expected to arrive as every other freshman class does in new clothes, excited, well-scrubbed and horny, but many of them will also have Kindles under their arm.
Bloomberg | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
July 9 (Bloomberg) -- New York Times Co. said in a survey of print subscribers that it's considering a $5 monthly fee for access to its namesake newsp...
Huffington Post | Peter Drivas | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media
In the latest installment of TIME's 10 Questions, New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller was asked by a reader in Portland, OR what he thought of...
Patricia Yarberry Allen | Posted 07.08.2009 | Business
The loss of sexual interest among menopausal women has clearly become no longer newsworthy in this time of falling stock prices and rising unemployment. Otherwise, why wasn't it big news when the uptown vibrator store had to close down because of the recession?
AllThingsD | Peter Kafka | Posted 07.08.2009 | Media
Every year, media moguls gather at the Allen & Co. Sun Valley conference to listen to each other gab, parade around in casual wear and occasionally ma...
Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics
In his catalog of Washington's public virtues and civility, David Brooks neglected to mention that George Washington owned, bought and sold his fellow human beings.
AP | Posted 07.08.2009 | Media
NEW YORK — The New York Times inadvertently published digitally manipulated photographs in the latest issue of its Sunday magazine, the newspape...
Dave Astor | Posted 07.08.2009 | Comedy
I'm a New Jersey resident who recently returned from a conference in California, and I'm here to report some surprising similarities and differences b...
Robert Naiman | Posted 07.07.2009 | World
Are those wielding power in Honduras today a "de facto" government, or are they an "interim" or "caretaker" government?
Leah Anthony Libresco | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media
By dismissing the media's assessment of her, Palin dismisses their entire metric for evaluation, without providing an alternative framework for determining merit.
Adam Hanft | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics
Want to be David Brooks? Just follow my free columnist-in-a box plan.
AP | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media
BOSTON — The Boston Globe's owners have reportedly postponed a deadline for potential buyers of the newspaper to submit their initial bids. The...
Robert Naiman | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
So far, whatever the Obama Administration has done has not caused the coup government to budge in its unwillingness to allow the democratically elected President of Honduras to resume his office.
Terry Gardner | Posted 07.06.2009 | Media
When you tell people you write travel articles, they often reply: "Gee, all the free travel must be swell!" Not true. Newspapers have strict ethical rules that prohibit accepting freebies.
The New York Observer | John Koblin | Posted 07.06.2009 | Media
In today's edition of New York Times cost-saving: Times editors are now strongly encouraging staffers to quit texting on their company cell phones, av...
Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 07.06.2009 | Business
Biden confessed that the Obama administration "misread" the depth of economic troubles it inherited and in doing so, displayed a chilling lack of understanding of the economic landscape.
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 07.06.2009 | Living
When it comes to customer loyalty, women aren't necessarily more loyal than men; it's just that their loyalties take a different form.
AP | Posted 07.06.2009 | Media
BOSTON — A deadline is approaching for the possible sale of The Boston Globe. The New York Times Co., which owns the Globe, has set a Wednesday...
Jim Luce | Posted 07.06.2009 | New York
Our biggest accomplishment was standing up for those torn down by the TV evangelists.
Giles Slade | Posted 07.04.2009 | Politics
Sarah's resignation confirms what her values actually are by defining what is most important to her. Governor Palin is going to keep as much of her newfound money as she can.
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media
While the Times is stubbornly manning the gates of the fancy Midtown office building it can't afford, The Huffington Post is churning out content and swimming in advertising dollars in its small workspace downtown.
The Street | Posted 07.03.2009 | Media
TheStreet.com: Michael Wolff has written in Vanity Fair that you want to buy The New York Times (NYT Quote), that you've planned out the deal in detai...
Norman Solomon | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media
The political rhetoric in Washington is close to 100 percent humanitarian, while the new supplemental infusion of U.S. spending for Afghanistan is 90 percent military.
Beau Friedlander | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics
Our presence is an ongoing affront to democracy and human dignity, and yet now that the damage is done, everyone's stuck between that rock and a hard place.
Michael Russnow | Posted 06.30.2009 | Business
Folks, AIG hadn't won the lottery in March, April and May and the news forthcoming about its actual worth hasn't been alarming the last week or so.
After a three-night stay in Moscow, the Obamas touched down in Rome on Wednesday so Papa President...
How would you like to live in the White House? Take the HuffPost Poll of World Leaders' Residences...
UPDATE: Paris Jackson also spoke. Watch her moving...
In the wake of Governor Palin stepping down from her job, new allegations...
I was sorry to watch, live on CNN, Edward R. Murrow and Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and...
The following post...
Below are photos from Michael Jackson's memorial, with Mariah Carey, Lionel Richie, Smokey Robinson,...
OH NOES! What happened on Fox and Friends today, people?
It's been a rocky year for Letterman and Palin. He joked...
Just for fun, the Huffington Post decided Tuesday night to...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Oscar G. Mayer, retired chairman of the Wisconsin-based meat processing company that bears his name,...
I'm liveblogging the latest Iran election fallout. Email me with any news or thoughts, or follow me...
It was with interest that I read Dr. Soram Khalsa's post on The Huffington Post...
It's summer, the time for weddings! A few of my friends are getting married this summer and fall, so lately...
When making a list of "smart animals," crows probably wouldn't be at the top for...
Giles Slade | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media