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Newser's iPhone App: Are We Nuts?

Michael Wolff | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media


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...

Slate Joins Newser: This Is How to Save the News

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.25.2009 | Media


Michael Wolff

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

Video: Newser Has Dramatic Traffic Drop, Report

Andy Plesser | Posted 09.21.2009 | Media


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."

I'm Proud to Kill the News

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Media


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...

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

Michael Wolff | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media


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.

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

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.22.2009 | Politics


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.

Do I Have to Pay for Your Health Care?

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics


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...

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

Michael Wolff | Posted 08.16.2009 | Business


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.

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?

It's Not Your Father's News

Michael Wolff | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media


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."

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

Michael Wolff | Posted 03.28.2009 | Media


Michael Wolff

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