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...
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...
(NEWSER) – The Daily Mail may have just uncovered the world’s most expensive Halloween costume: Behold the “Human Slinky,” which you can buy r...
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...
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...
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.
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.
Margulies has written two plays that act out the "what if" scenarios that publishers should seriously be thinking about.
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.
So, we weren't joking. Counsel for TheWrap sent a cease and desist letter today to Patrick Spain, the CEO of Newser....
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...
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...
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.
The age of "the newspaper guys" might be ending, but the media moguls will live on.
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...
Just as so many save-our-business types are castigating news aggregators as pirates, Slate takes up the aggregating craft.
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."
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
New York Times Columnist David Carr says "Google, The Huffington Post, and Newser have built their audiences and brands on other people's labors."
There's the letter from the Times threatening criminal prosecution that arrived in our offices at Newser the other day.
