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Jill Abramson Plays the Tech Neophyte at SXSW
This talk was covered six ways to Sunday. (http://www.imagethink.net) New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson spoke at SXSW in Austin, Tex. yesterday, further proof of her tolerance for...
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Attempts to Answer the Question: ‘What is Yahoo!?’
David Carr used his Media Equation column this week to ask: What is Yahoo? pegged to the new appointment of former Google-r Marissa Meyer in the company’s top spot. It’s a funny column (“After five...
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Media Briefs: Let Pat Kiernan Live!
Can we just let NY1’s Pat Kiernan live? Fareed Zakaria apparently can’t, at least not with all these haters. Neither can a food journalist upset over food journalists dictating the world’s food fads,...
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Fear of a Black Pundit: Ta-Nehisi Coates raises his voice in American media
Before Ta-Nehisi Coates was a superstar at The Atlantic, he was fired from three consecutive writing jobs. Well, not quite fired. “I’m still not exactly sure what happened,” he said, sipping a single...
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David Carr Ran into Amanda Bynes in the Emergency Room
What are the odds? New York Times media reporter David Carr slipped in the rain on Thursday night and broke his arm in three places. In an odd twist of fate, Mr. Carr, while waiting to be treated at...
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Erin Lee Carr Leaves Vice for The Verge
Erin Lee Carr. Erin Lee Carr has left Vice, where she was a video producer, for The Verge. Ms. Carr, daughter of Times media reporter David, joins The Verge as a video producer and will work on video...
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Morning Media Mix
(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) Just when it looked like all hope was lost for serious news, “an unlikely cavalry has come roaring over the hill with serious money, fresh ideas and no small amount of...
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Morning Media Mix
(Illustration by Lauren Payne.) “What if Gawker tried to out an anchor at Fox News and no one cared?” writes David Carr. But what if David Carr devoted a whole column to said outing of a Fox anchor and...
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The Media, Unexamined No More
Alain de Botton speaks at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. (Photo by Beowulf Sheehan) The pop philosopher and self-help author Alain de Botton has taken on an impressively wide array of subjects, such as...
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Do You Suffer From DVR Deficiency? Wrestling the Sunday Night FOMT Paradox
FOMT! (HBO) Back in the old days, the only thing you could watch on Sunday nights was 60 Minutes. Maybe The Simpsons, if your parents were cool. (Old days, in this context, refers to the mid-90s.) Now...
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Morning Media Mix: Comcast Edition
David Cohen, executive vice president at Comcast. (Photo via Getty Images) David Carr has some questions for Comcast ahead of its appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, when the...
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Morning Media Mix: Yahoo Takes a Beating
Marissa Mayer. (Photo via Getty Images) Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer wants in on the TV racket, as the Wall Street Journal reported last week. David Carr looks askance in his latest column. “I...
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The New York Times Displays Healthy Self-Confidence During NewFronts...
Few news organizations are as adept at conveying the sense of their own exceptionalism as The New York Times. The paper heavily emphasized the value of the Times brand this morning in a bid to attract...
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Morning Media Mix: Mostly Murdoch
The Daily News splashily delivered 40,000 petitions from their save the horse carriage campaign to city hall, but the mayor didn’t really care and sent an aide to pick up the sacks emblazoned with what...
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Media Mix: John Oliver Takes on Native Advertising (Video)
On his Sunday night news comedy show, Last Week Night Tonight, John Oliver spent 11 minutes humorously explaining the inherent ethical problems that result from native advertising. “The line between...
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New York’s Most Prominent Smokers Weigh in on Bumming Culture
Smokers in 1944, back when cigarettes were cheap. (Photo via Getty Images) It is a scenario familiar to most habitual smokers in New York. Step outside, light up and wait, with no small amount of...
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New York Times Advertising Reporter Stuart Elliott Takes Buyout
The New York Times building. (Photo: Amanda Cohen/New York Observer) New York Times advertising reporter Stuart Elliott is the latest longtime staffer to take a buyout package from the paper. Mr....
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Rumor Roundup: Hermione Way’s Vibrator Gets $, Jay-Z Visits Facebook and Free...
Game of Groans Photos from Sean Parker’s Big Sur wedding bash have finally hit the Internet, and they reveal an orgiastic confluence of
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David Carr, 1956-2015
There is no one in New York media circles who wasn't personally touched by this man, this fine, fine man. I have never known anyone who was more generous with his time or sage about his industry.
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David Carr’s Blazing Star
For those of us who cover the media industry, the categories of friends, colleagues, acquaintances, competitors, sources and subjects have a tendency to blur together. That was especially true for...
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