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What's really wrong with the White House Correspondents' Dinner?
It is, really, an occasion for the people in all quarters of Washington, so often at cross-purposes, to ditch the pretense that they don't know each other and have nothing to gain from each other. It's Washington on carnival time, a release valve from the pressure of doing the work those watchers in Spokane that Brokaw is so worried about expect of the city's political and media elites. More
Gillibrand makes a statement for the beer-and-Jameson demographic
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was the second guest for Buzzfeed's beer-themed interview series last night in Washington, and, while she made some minor news about a women's dinner with President Obama, the real news was her drinking. More
The quotable Roger Ailes; the Buzzfeed 'counternarrative'
The Lineup collects the media stories, big and small, that are on our radar each day. More
Ben Smith sets off Andrew Sullivan's 'Orwell bells' in Flatiron fracas
A standing-room-only crowd packed the hang-out area on the 11th floor of Buzzfeed's Flatiron District headquarters last night, draining plastic wine glasses and beer bottles, but tasting blood. More
(3)'People have alternatives': Bloomberg issues a warning to his would-be successors about New York
Mayor Michael Bloomberg today warned that the gains the city has made in the tourism and tech sectors and in public safety should not be taken for granted. More
(1)In the house of BuzzFeed, Bloomberg laments the effects of social media
Mayor Michael Bloomberg doesn't think much of the impact social media's had on governance, and he said as much today, during a press conference in the offices of BuzzFeed, whose business model is premised on social media-driven virality.
Thanks to social media, said the mayor, "we have an instant poll on whether anything is good before you even get a chance to explain it or answer all the questions in terms of how it's gonna to work. " More
Notes on the media on the media
We're addicted to the measurability of the web, but we by no means have done everything we can to understand how those measurements should guide strategy or content for any individual site you can name, not from the outside. And we're all on the outside of every other site. More
A goodbye to teary newsroom scenes? Why Friday's wake at the 'Times' was undercovered
hile I and other media reporters were scrambling to keep track of and break news on every single buyout-taker whose name was leaking out of 620 8th Avenue over the past two weeks, we all missed the more colorful scenes that were unfolding in the newsroom last Friday. Buzzfeed's Doree Shafrir explains why, and I add a few ideas too. More
(1)Behind the Sandy covers; BuzzFeed's longform pivot; the new 'no comment'
The Lineup collects the media stories, big and small, that are on our radar each day. More
BuzzFeed L.A. bureau brings in familiar names: Richard Rushfeld, Kate Aurthur (who's leaving Tina Brown)
The Lineup collects the media stories, big and small, that are on our radar each day. More
BuzzFeed (yes, BuzzFeed) begins search for 'longform editor'
"Long-form pieces — assigning them, editing them, finding great art for them — are very time- and resource-consuming," said Doree Shafrir, BuzzFeed's culture editor and recently the author of a personal essay on night terrors for the site that could qualify as fitting the long-form standard. "It seemed to make sense to have someone who could be able to devote all of his or her time to getting them right," she added. More
(1)From a founder of The Huffington Post, an online video-news platform with cable in its crosshairs
Ken Lerer, a cofounder of The Huffington Post, will join some usual suspects in a new video news venture, which today revealed its executive team and its name after months operating in stealth mode. More
In Tampa, a ravenous media gobbles up the scenery
For some years now, there have been two celebrity sets at these conventions, operating in parallel and only sometimes intersecting; and then, almost always, on the convention floor, where news goes to die. More
BuzzFeed, 'New York Times' will collaborate on live video at conventions
As part of the collaboration, BuzzFeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith and the team of political reporters he's built up since being lured away from Politico last December will be featured in nytimes.com video spots during and leading up to the conventions later this summer. More
Obama's 'roof hits': New details, old story
Does any of this matter, politically? Is this important, say, compared to the recent revelation from another Washington Post writer that Mitt Romney, when he was in high school, bullied a gay student? (That question is already being asked by people who very much want the answer to be "yes.") More
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