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By Kat Stoeffel 12/12/11 8:35am

Politico’s Ben Smith to Teach BuzzFeed How to Report

A major editorial expansion is in the works at BuzzFeed, the viral content aggregator best known for its panda slideshows, and it will be led by an unlikely figure.

Ben Smith, Politico senior writer and longtime New York politics reporter, has been named editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed, the company announced today.

According to the release, Mr. Smith will help the site get into the business of original editorial content, hiring new reporters and launching new content sections.

BuzzFeed's content sections are currently limited to "lol", "cute", "win", "fail", "omg", "geeky", "trashy", and "wtf?". The site recently snagged two writers from Gawker Media, Jezebel's Whitney Jefferson and Gawker's Matt Cherette. There are whispers of a redesign early next year. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 10/19/11 6:28pm

Changes

Politico Poaches Ginger Gibson Off the Chris Christie Beat

Chris Christie is out of the GOP primary race but one of the top reporters covering the New Jersey Governor got Politico's nomination today. Ginger Gibson, currently a political reporter at the Star-Ledger, begins as a Politico national politics reporter on November 7. Prior to covering Governor Christie, Ms. Gibson "drew notice for her aggressive coverage Read More

2 By Kat Stoeffel 8/26/11 11:11am

Magazines

Anna Wintour: Apolitical Editor, DNC Fundraising All-Star

Vogue editor Anna Wintour is one of President Obama's 27 mega-bundlers--individuals who collected $500,000 or more in donations apiece for a joint account for Obama’s 2012 campaign and the Democratic National Committee, reports Politico. Other mega-bundlers include former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine and Hollywood producer Jeffery Katzenberg. With phone calls and Calvin Klein-co-hosted dinner parties, she's Read More

11 By Foster Kamer 8/05/11 5:56pm

Verdicts

“Hip-Hop BBQ” as Defined by Fox News

And the verdict is in! Read More

5 By Foster Kamer 8/05/11 12:41pm

Haters Gon Hate

Fox News vs. Politico: ‘Obama and His Rapper Friends Did Not Fix Economy’ Report Classic Case of Awful Aggregation

Media Matters screen-grabbed what you're seeing on the left from the Fox Nation website earlier today. Yes: it's real. They didn't provide context, but we will. Read More

By Kat Stoeffel 5/06/11 2:31pm

Party Pics

Politico Senior Editor Gregg Birnbaum is Duh, Winning

We always knew we liked Gregg Birnbaum, from his obsessive Hillary Clinton campaign blog, his glorious exit from the Post in December and his resemblance to Cabin Boy's Chris Elliott. Now, a tipster points us to the New Jersey Star-Ledger, which shows Mr. Birnbaum getting patriotic at Ground Zero on Sunday night after Osama Read More

1 By Hunter Walker 11/09/10 2:16am

Shots Fired

FishbowlDC’s Betsy Rothstein Has Beef With The Washington Post

FishbowlDC editor Betsy Rothstein called out the Washington Post on Monday with a blog post that accused the paper of taking two stories from other outlets without attribution -- Politico's story about Keith Olbermann's campaign contributions and FishbowlDC's scoop about the ouster of TBD.com editor Jim Brady.

WaPo reporter David Montgomery's article Read More

1 By Hunter Walker 11/05/10 10:36pm

Scoops

Meet The Young Reporter Who Rocked MSNBC’s World

The journalist who broke the story that got Keith Olbermann suspended from MSNBC is a recent college grad who's been working in D.C. for less than six months..

Simmi Aujla was a member of Brown University's class of 2009. She joined the staff at Politico in May. On Friday morning, she exposed MSNBC Read More

By Hunter Walker 11/05/10 1:48pm

Lean Forward

Keith Olbermann Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is With Donations to Dems

MSNBC host Keith Olbermann donated a total of $7,200 to three different Democrats prior to Tuesday's election. NBC, like many other news organizations, has a policy against its employees making political contributions.

Olbermann gave $2,400 apiece, the maximum allowable by law, to Arizona Reps. Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords, and to Kentucky Senate candidate Jack Read More

By Nate Freeman 11/03/10 9:36pm

Media Parties

Politico Pats Itself on the Back With a Big, Fancy, Caviar-Stuffed Election Night Soirée

It being election night and all, Washington, D.C. witnessed its fair share of parties last night. Win or lose, there's going to be catered food around when the returns start coming in.

And Politico threw a big party, too! The Capitol Hill-centric paper — free when taken from D.C. street bins but a cool $2,000 Read More

By Nate Freeman 10/26/10 12:36pm

Paywalls

Politico to Launch Subscription News Service

Politico announced last night it will be launching Politico Pro, a subscription service that will provide reporting and analysis in the areas of health care, energy and technology to those who pony up the fee, The New York Times reports.

Since 2006, Politico has posted a wealth of content to its website and placed Read More

By Zeke Turner 8/09/10 11:08pm

Launches

Last Night at the ‘TBD’ Launch: Funyuns!

“When I came in my office this morning, there was somebody where my chair is passed out in a sleeping bag,” Erik Wemple, editor of the brand new Albritton-owned Washington local news site TBD, told the Media Mob this afternoon over the phone. “That is what I came into. Pretty much everyone else is Read More

By Zeke Turner 8/04/10 4:35pm

Twitter news

Dow Jones Reporter to Politico: ‘FUCK YOU’

Dow Jones Newsletters reporter Samuel Rubenfeld is displeased with Politico over an article about a recent deal in the Senate.

"Hey @politico," he wrote on his Twitter account this afternoon, "do I have to say it again? FUCK YOU. How about posing this in a policy angle? Can't do that, huh."

We emailed Read More

By Zeke Turner 7/19/10 1:25pm

Tearjerkers

Gravitas at High Metabolism Blogs: ‘It Was Like Bootcamp, the Politico.’

The New York Times reports today on burnout among young writers working at "high metabolism" websites like Gawker and Politico. The story that emerges, however, is more about the kind of people who work at those places than the pressures of writing online today.

At Politico several reporters thought that an April Fool's email Read More

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Politico’s Ben Smith to Teach BuzzFeed How to Report

Politico Poaches Ginger Gibson Off the Chris Christie Beat

Anna Wintour: Apolitical Editor, DNC Fundraising All-Star

“Hip-Hop BBQ” as Defined by Fox News

Fox News vs. Politico: ‘Obama and His Rapper Friends Did Not Fix Economy’ Report Classic Case of Awful Aggregation

Politico Senior Editor Gregg Birnbaum is Duh, Winning

FishbowlDC’s Betsy Rothstein Has Beef With The Washington Post

Meet The Young Reporter Who Rocked MSNBC’s World

Keith Olbermann Puts His Money Where His Mouth Is With Donations to Dems

Politico Pats Itself on the Back With a Big, Fancy, Caviar-Stuffed Election Night Soirée

Politico to Launch Subscription News Service

Last Night at the ‘TBD’ Launch: Funyuns!

Dow Jones Reporter to Politico: ‘FUCK YOU’

Gravitas at High Metabolism Blogs: ‘It Was Like Bootcamp, the Politico.’

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