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Britain Plans Resort For Chinese Tourists In Wales

newser.com | Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: Europe Travel, UK, United Kingdom, Newser, United Kingdom Travel, Pantglas Estate, Wales Travel, Europe, Wales, UK Travel, Travel News

With Chinese tourism to the UK booming, a developer is planning a resort village aimed at their specific needs. But it's not exactly a stone's throw f...

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Movie Snack Theft Costs Texan 80 Years

www.newser.com | Posted 11.21.2011

Read More: Texas, Counterfeit Money, Man Arrested With Counterfeit Money, Newser, Weird Texas, Texas Crime, Weird News News

And you thought your multiplex overcharged for snacks. Two hot dogs, two sodas, and a tub of popcorn has cost one Texas man 80 years in prison—becau...

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WATCH: 'Human Slinky' Costume On Sale For $1M

www.newser.com | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Costumes, Human Slinky Costumes, Video, Slinky, Newser, Halloween Costumes, Funny Halloween Costumes, Human Slinky, Weird News News

(NEWSER) – The Daily Mail may have just uncovered the world’s most expensive Halloween costume: Behold the “Human Slinky,” which you can buy r...

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New EU Rule: Kids Can't Blow Up Balloons

www.newser.com | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Games, Newser, European Union Balloons, Children, Balloons, European Union, Blowing Up Balloons, Child Safety, Weird News News

Blowing up balloons is now a bust for kids in the European Union. The popular activity is too dangerous for children under the age of 8 to do unsuperv...

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Michael Calderone

Salon CEO Calls For 'American Spring'

HuffingtonPost.com | Michael Calderone | Posted 11.26.2011

Read More: David Talbot, The Backstory, Google, Salon.com, Michael Wolff, Video, Newser, Great Recession, Media News, Wall Street Journal, Salon, Media News

NEW YORK -- David Talbot has seen Salon go through several iterations since founding the site in 1995. He was Salon’s editor-in-chief for a decade a...

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Here's Why Dilbert Loves Newser

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newser.com, Dilbert, Michael Wolff, Wolff's Newser, Newser, Scott Adams, Media News
Michael Wolff

It's often a bitch to explain new media. None of this stuff makes much sense if you don't use it--and if you resist it. It's as irritating as it is opaque.

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So the Publishing Business Didn't Die, After All

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Wolff, Publishing, Newser, Publishing Industry, Media News
Michael Wolff

While many traditional publishers still figure on the top 100 publishers list, more than half of the list consists of publishers who didn't exist 10 years ago, half again of which did not exist five years ago.

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Publishers Can Take Warning from Broadway's Collected Stories

James Sims | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sharon Waxman, Oprah Winfrey, Newspapers, Book Publishing, Kitty Kelly, Newser, Broadway, Rupert Murdoch, The Wrap, Nikki Finke, Media, Sarah Paulson, New York City, Ipad, Entertainment News
James Sims

Margulies has written two plays that act out the "what if" scenarios that publishers should seriously be thinking about.

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Sound and Fury: Here's What Sharon Waxman Really Wants

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sharon Waxman, The Wrap, Michael Wolff, Newser, Content Aggregators, Media News
Michael Wolff

Sharon Waxman's claims are so exaggerated, and big lie-like, that, in my suspicion of anyone shouting about ethics in a crowded theater, it suddenly occurred to me to run a quick ethical search on her.

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The Wrap Sends Newser Cease & Desist

The Wrap | Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sharon Waxman, Sharon Waxman Michael Wolff, The Wrap, Newser, Michael Wolff, Media News

So, we weren't joking. Counsel for TheWrap sent a cease and desist letter today to Patrick Spain, the CEO of Newser....

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The New News: I Can Say Anything You Can Say Shorter

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sharon Waxman, The Wrap, Michael Wolff, Newser, Journalism, Content Aggregators, Media News
Michael Wolff

Let me say it again: News used to be a scarce commodity; but then the Internet turned it into a vast surplus, too great for anybody to consume in what...

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Newser.com: Why Michael Wolff and Co. Are Way Over the Line

Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aggregation, Thewrap, Newser, News Aggregators, Michael Wolff, Online Journalism, Content Aggregators, Media News
Sharon Waxman

We aggregate news here at TheWrap along with producing a great deal of original content. But I'm starting to think hard about the line between lifting content and aggregating it. Exhibit A for me is Newser.com.

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Sharon Waxman vs. Michael Wolff: Newser Steals Wrap Content!

The Wrap | Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sharon Waxman, The Wrap, Sharon Waxman Michael Wolff, Newser, Michael Wolff, Media News

In our 14 months of our operation, Newser.com, with an audience of about 3 million unique viewers per month, has sent us precisely 1,600 users. But it...

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From Pulitzer to Murdoch - The Newspaper Guys and Beyond

Adam Taylor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paywalls, News Corp, Newser, Joseph Pulitzer, Nick Denton, Gawker New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine, Michael Wolff, Media Moguls, New York Post, Gawker, Rupert Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch Wall Street Journal, News Corporation, James Murdoch, Newspapers, Media News
Adam Taylor

The age of "the newspaper guys" might be ending, but the media moguls will live on.

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Newser's iPhone App: Are We Nuts?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Future of Journalism, Iphone, Michael Wolff, Media, Newser, Online News, iPhone Apps, Media News
Michael Wolff

The most popular news medium became, over the last 10 years, the computer, effectively putting newspapers out of business and changing the nature of t...

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Slate Joins Newser: This Is How to Save the News

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aggregator, Michael Wolff, Wolff's Newser, Newser, The Slatest, Slate, Content Aggregators, Content-Aggregators, Aggregated News, Newser.com, Washington Post, Media, Journalism, Media News
Michael Wolff

Just as so many save-our-business types are castigating news aggregators as pirates, Slate takes up the aggregating craft.

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Video: Newser Has Dramatic Traffic Drop, Report

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Wolff, Newser, Media News
Andy Plesser

Earlier this year, I interviewed Newser co-founder Michael Wolff. In his report, Wolff explains some of the reasons for the decline in his site's traffic, citing changing "distribution deals."

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I'm Proud to Kill the News

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Newser.com, Michael Wolff, Wolff's Newser, Newser, Media, News, Journalism, Pilkington, The Guardian, Annie Leibovitz, Media News
Michael Wolff

The Guardian in London ran a piece Tuesday by my friend Ed Pilkington, the paper's correspondent in New York, about the financial woes of the photogra...

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Mark Cuban Is a Big Fat Idiot--News Will Stay Free

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Michael Wolff, Wolff's Newser, Newser, Mark Cuban, Content-Aggregators, Media, Newsercom, Journalism, Newspapers, Media News
Michael Wolff

Cuban is a man of snappy, attention-deficit sort of opinions (some of which, for all I know, may be wise. His opinion the other day, to which, I assume, he gave his usual amount of consideration, involved Newser.

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I Don't Get Health Care Reform -- and Neither Do You

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Michael Wolff, Newser, Health Care, Barack Obama, President Obama, Politics News
Michael Wolff

There is no fixed proposal for what exactly this reform is or how precisely these reform goals will be accomplished. There are just arguments over the nature and methods of reform.

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Do I Have to Pay for Your Health Care?

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Health Care Reform, Goldman Sachs, Michael Wolff, Newser, Health Care, Politics News
Michael Wolff

The Democrats want me to pay for your health care and I am trying to think how I feel about this. With a 5.4% tax on anything above $350,000, we're n...

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Goldman Sachs: Raise Your Hand If You Still Want to be Rich

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Michael Wolff, Bernard Madoff, Newser, Business News
Michael Wolff

Goldman is that all-American model of wealth: if they can do it, I can too. The fear is not that things are going to come crashing down, but that Goldman is the harbinger of things going up.

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Will Newser End Without Newspapers?

Rob Fishman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arthur Sulzberger Jr., New York Times, Michael Wolff, Death of Newspapers, Newser, Boston Globe, David Carr, Media News
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?

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It's Not Your Father's News

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, New York Times, Newspapers, Web Journalism, Bloggers, Newspaper Industry, Newser, Media News
Michael Wolff

New York Times Columnist David Carr says "Google, The Huffington Post, and Newser have built their audiences and brands on other people's labors."

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The New York Times Is Falling Down, Falling Down...

Michael Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York Times, Michael Wolff, Newspapers, New York Times Suing, Newser, Newser Getting Sued by the New York Times, Media News
Michael Wolff

There's the letter from the Times threatening criminal prosecution that arrived in our offices at Newser the other day.

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