David Carr

Help! I Don't Wanna Die!

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

We're not interested in big, glossy spreads of the superpeople who run the economy and its constituent parts. So what should those who cover business be writing about, and not? Here are some early suggestions.

At the Top of Their Game: Giants 44 - Raiders 7

Greg Hanlon | Posted 10.12.2009 | New York


Greg Hanlon

More than anything, the Raiders of this era are characterized by mental errors; indeed, such boneheaded plays helped the Giants to take a 28-0 lead one minute into the second quarter.

Jason Linkins

Olbermann Retracts "Fox-Twa" on Glenn Beck

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.09.2009 | Media


In the wake of the Van Jones resignation, an aggrieved Keith Olbermann took to the pages of DailyKos and issued a call for an online witch hunt of Glenn Beck. Cooler heads now prevail.

Raise Your Hand if You Think Media People Have a Future

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.07.2009 | Media


Michael Wolff

Media people are deeply nostalgic for the media -- for when it paid big money and was an exclusive sort of place.

The NY Times Made Me Do It

Charles Warner | Posted 08.16.2009 | Media


Charles Warner

The nation's journal of record; America's first draft of history; the Grey Lady, -- the New York Times -- got it wrong and that the crowd-sourced, open-source, oft-criticized Wikipedia got it right.

Nick Denton: A Third of Gawker Media Posts Are Video Centric: NYT's David Carr Explains the Power of the Moving Image

Andy Plesser | Posted 07.07.2009 | Media


Andy Plesser

Gawker's extraordinary degree of video integration into news reporting and blogging is a big deal and very exciting.

Will Newser End Without Newspapers?

Rob Fishman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media


Rob Fishman

Michael Wolff depends entirely on working journalists to make his case that newspapers suck. Wolff can't source a blog without the Times, but we're supposed to renounce the paper?

Initiating a Culture of Compensation

Rob Fishman | Posted 03.20.2009 | Media


Rob Fishman

As a J-school student, I ask myself: is it crazy to pay for an education in a profession that refuses to charge for its services? Giving away news for free was a terrible folly. It's time now to move on and cough up.

Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: January 7, 2007

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media


Well, the big news today is that after all manner of tough talk from Harry Reid, vowing to never seat a Senator appointed by Rod Blagojevich, the Sena...

David Carr Attempts Bizarre Joker Impression (VIDEO)

NY Times | Posted 02.07.2009 | Media


Today the New York Times' Carpetbagger Blog features a video of eccentric media reporter and memoirist David Carr reporting on The Dark Knight's awar...

The Blind Man and the Elephant is the Media on the Financial Crisis

Yvette Kantrow | Posted 01.15.2009 | Media


Yvette Kantrow

In 2008, the financial media was saddled with an enormous task: explaining the unexplainable. The subprime mortgage mess, which began life as a seemin...

David Carr and Rex Sorgatz: Guide to Minneapolis

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media


NYT media columnist and Night Of The Gun author David Carr and Fimoculous lady-killing link-blogger Rex Sorgatz, both former denizens of Minneapolis, ...

Arianna And David Carr At The DNC (VIDEO)

The New York Times | David Carr | Posted 09.26.2008 | Home


The New York Times has video of David Carr interviewing Arianna Huffington at the HuffPost's DNC Oasis....

Welcome To The Huffington Post Oasis

Huffington Post | Posted 09.25.2008 | Living


The Huffington Post Oasis offers journalists, delegates, bloggers and others a chance to take a break from the frenzied pace of the Democratic Nationa...

Live From Denver: LiveBlogging The HuffPost Oasis

Verena von Pfetten | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living


Verena von Pfetten

Greetings from Denver! Your friendly HuffPost Living Editor is here to keep you posted on all the happenings at this fine Oasis of ours, including visitor commentary and VIP interviews with David Carr, Laurie David, and Don Hazen.

David Carr On Relapse, Misogyny, HBO's "The Wire": Our Interview

Huffington Post | Adam Rose | Posted 09.24.2008 | Media


To say New York Times media columnist David Carr has had a troubled past would be an understatement. A former crack addict, he beat cancer to gain cus...

New York Times Reviews — And Loves! — Timesman's Book

New York Times | Pete Hamill | Posted 09.06.2008 | Media


This fierce, self-lacerating tale opens on the morning after St. Patrick's Day, 1987, in Minneapolis. David Carr, a young newspaperman, is being issue...

Will David Carr's Night Of The Gun Save The Memoir?

New York Observer | Leon Neyfakh | Posted 08.07.2008 | Media


t's not immediately clear when you get to the end of NYT columnist David Carr's new book, The Night of the Gun, whether you've just seen the memoir re...

David Carr Memoir Excerpt: From Crack Addict To The New York Times

New York Times Magazine | David Carr | Posted 07.25.2008 | Media


On the face of it, I am no more qualified to take my own inventory than the addict with the fetid dreads who spare-changes people on the subway while ...

Fox's New Low? Not Really

Charlie Reina | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media


Charlie Reina

I wish the NY Times' David Carr had called me first. I could have told him a few things about those lovely people that might have surprised even him.

Bill O'Reilly Takes On New York Times, Cries Foul

Huffington Post | Posted 07.16.2008 | Media


On Monday's "The O'Reilly Factor," Bill O'Reilly took on the New York Times and defended "Fox & Friends" for their Photoshopping of Times reporter Jac...

Fox's Poison Pill PR, And How It Boomerangs Back

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 07.15.2008 | Media


The big news today is the NY Times takedown of Fox News PR. Considering the subject matter and impetus, I mean "takedown" in the nicest possible way.

Vanity Fair's Michael Wolff: "If Newsweek Is Around In Five Years, I'll Buy You Dinner"

Huffington Post | Adam Rose | Posted 06.12.2008 | Media


Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff said today he'd be surprised if newsmagazines like Newsweek survive the next half-decade, given how much the...

New York Times Columnist David Carr's Memoir On Crack Addiction, Recovery: Excerpt

New York Magazine/Daily Intel | Posted 05.17.2008 | Media


We just got our hands on an early, early copy of New York Times columnist David Carr's memoir, The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darke...

Advice For Budding Journos: Establish A Brand

New York Observer | Doree Shafrir | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media


When The New York Times hired 21-year-old Brian Stelter to write about digital media and television for the paper's Business section, most stories abo...