The New York Observer » Wall Street Journal http://www.observer.com Just another WordPress site Tue, 14 Feb 2012 18:01:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Executive Editor Edward Felsenthal Departs Daily Beast In the past week, the Newsweek Daily Beast Company has lost three high-level staffers and recouped some long-lost Newsweek veterans, suggesting a major overhaul as executive management comes to grips with a disappointing first year. Early last week, Tina Brown announced that she’d lured back Dan Klaidman, a longtime managing editor of Newsweek and its Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/11/executive-edward-felsenthal-departs-daily-beast/ WSJ Debuts its E-Book Bestseller List The Wall Street Journal ran its first bestseller list for e-books over the weekend, with data provided by Nielsen BookScan. It's pretty much identical to all the other bestseller lists, which means its non-fiction list is also topped by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard's Killing Lincoln and its list includes self-published authors. The Times Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/10/wsj-debuts-its-e-book-bestseller-list/ The Indypendent Raise Money to Publish the Occupy Wall Street Journal[Updated] [UPDATE: It's not the Yes Men behind The Occupy Wall Street Journal, it's The Indypendent. Capital NY has the story.]

Media activists The Yes Men are raising money on Kickstarter to publish a four-page broadsheet about the 99% represented at Liberty Plaza called The Occupy Wall Street Journal, Animal NY noticed.

The Yes Men's previous news pranks provided political commentary through the lens of the city's existing media. The "We're Screwed!" New York Post suggested that global climate change is one issue that actually merits tabloid-style histrionics. What looked like a liberal idealist's fantasy edition of the New York Times was actually based on President Obama's campaign promises.

The Occupy Wall Street Journal, by contrast, aims to be an earnest and functional news outlet.  Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/09/the-yes-men-raise-money-to-publish-the-occupy-wall-street-journal/ Wall Street Journal Page One Editor Alix Freedman Named Reuters Ethics Editor Alix M. Freedman has been named Global Editor for Ethics and Standards at Reuters. She comes from the Wall Street Journal, where she was deputy managing editor and page one editor. Before that she oversaw ethics and standards of high-impact stories in the paper and on the Dow Jones newswires. Ms. Freedman won a Pulitzer for her tobacco industry reporting. Full memo from editor in chief Steve Adler below. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/09/wall-street-journal-page-one-editor-alix-freedman-named-reuters-ethics-editor/ Conan Floundering on TBS Conan O'Brien's reign as TBS's late-night host is more turbulent than the cable net might have expected, reports the Wall Street Journal. During Mr. O'Brien's season on the air, TBS's viewership among the 18-to-49 key demographic has fallen 11 percent and the network canceled its other late-night show, George Lopez's Lopez Tonight. Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/08/conan-foundering-on-tbs/ Murdoch and His Critics Regarding the scandal that has roiled Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire, a few things seem clear. The phone-hacking scandal in London is deplorable. Journalists have violated the privacy of ordinary citizens and, it is alleged, the law of the land in the United Kingdom. Tabloid reporters from the now-shuttered News of the World showed a Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/07/murdoch-and-his-critics/ Times‘s Joe Nocera Lambastes Murdoch, Enjoys ‘Seeing the Tables Turned’ The Times's Joe Nocera has finally gotten his chance to shine during the current News of the World scandal, intoning last week that Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal had been characterized by lack of ethics and "weirdly, sometimes surprisingly unsophisticated coverage of business" and going yet further today. "There is something undeniably rich about Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/07/timess-joe-nocera-lambastes-murdoch-enjoys-seeing-the-tables-turned/ Softball Report: Daily Beast Takes One for the Team…in the Face The New York Media Softball League continues to heat up as landlocked editorial staffers channel their sublimated rage into line drives. Two-time champions the Wall Street Journal Capitalists faced off against the Newsweek/Daily Beast team during Week 2 of the league’s exhibition play. In 2010, the only team to slay the mighty Beast was Newsweek. After a tumultuous year in which the properties merged and the editorial reins were handed to Tina Brown, the combined entity can be sure of at least one outcome: a better, tougher softball team.
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]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/06/softball-report-daily-beast-takes-one-for-the-team-in-the-face/ ‘WSJ’ Editor Robert Thomson Is Le Dissed The e-G8 tech summit sponsored by French President Nicolas "No Sleep 'Til Tripoli" Sarkozy kicked off Tuesday in Paris, and a few hours into it Off the Record found Robert Thomson, the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and close friend of Rupert Murdoch, outside the main white tent in the Tuileries Garden. Mr. Thomson Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/media/wsj-editor-robert-thomson-le-dissed ‘WSJ’ Bearish on Marital ‘Bonds?’ Over the last year, a narrative emerged in the work of Wall Street Journal relationship columnist Elizabeth Bernstein.

It started with "The Tricky Art of Sleeping Together," "Helping a Loved One Fight Depression," "Sick of This Text: 'Sorry I'm Late'," "Sorry? Really? Behind the Apology Gap," "Coping With Adult Temper Tantrums" and "She Talks, But Does He Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/wsj-relationship-columnist-divorce-05172011 Airplane Mag Disses WSJ Report on Bloomberg’s Jets "This isn't newsgathering; it's titillating gossip…Perhaps the article was more about Bloomberg LP's juggernaut appetite for market share on Dow Jones's turf. Shame the jets were caught in the crossfire."

--Nigel Moll of Business Aviation, on the WSJ story about Bloomberg's jet-setting habits.

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/politics/trade-mag-calls-wsj-report-bloombeg-titillating-gossip The Wall Street Journal Does Not Love Quora If you follow techies in the Twittersphere, you know that hundreds of thousands of people on the Internet have met, fallen in love with and married Quora, the hottest startup question-and-answer scene.

The Wall Street Journal just discovered Quora, however, and did not fall in love: "I found it uninviting, geeky and poorly explained," Katherine Boehret Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2011/media/wall-street-journal-does-not-love-quora Nintendo, Releasing 3D Videogame, Fears for the Children’s Eyes Nintendo is already warning parents to keep children under six from using its new handheld 3D device, the Nintendo 3DS.

"For children under the age of six, looking at 3D images for a long time could possibly have a negative impact on the growth of their eyes," Nintendo warned on its Japanese website, according to Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/media/nintendo-releasing-3d-videogame-fears-childrens-eyes 2.5 M. Entrepreneurs Make Their Own Jobs Every Year It's widely accepted that new businesses are the most important source of new jobs, The Wall Street Journal says.

That's when you look at official jobs numbers. But when you look outside the offical numbers, startups are even more important.

Young startups don't always incorporate immediately. That means productive Americans toiling on laptops at their kitchen Read More

]]> http://www.observer.com/2010/media/25-m-entrepreneurs-make-their-own-jobs-every-year Angry Birds and Other Must-Have Apps Collect More Personal Data Than You Think Angry Birds thinks it can get away with anything.

The addictive iPhone app asks for permission to access a user's location, but a Wall Street Journal investigation says it's harvesting--and delivering--much more. Your contacts, city, latitude and longitude, phone ID and username and password are all collected and sent to third parties.

The WSJ says it's pretty Read More

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