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Alexis Madrigal

  • Blogs

    June 6, 2013

    How the Hell Did Gavin Newsom Get Invited to Sean Parker's Wedding? (Update)

    Update: Thursday 12:25 p.m. Between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, Gavin Newsom mysteriously changed the job description on his website to eliminate all references to the Coastal Commission. Check out bottom of the story for screenshots of the new descriptions. Original Story 6/5: A 2.5 milli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2013

    Right-Wing Conspiracies Try to Wrest Media Shame Away From Broadcast, Twitter

    From print to broadcast to online, there's very little the media's gotten right about this Boston tragedy before getting it wrong multiple times. The New York Post exaggerated the death toll from Monday's Boston Marathon bombings by 400 percent before joining InfoWars in misidentifying three diffe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2012

    Desperate Newspapers Pin Hopes on Annoyed Readers

    News publishers have always treated readers like commodities -- because that's what readers are. The real customers for publishers aren't readers, but advertisers. Readers are the product. It's not quite that simple, of course, and more enlightened publishers treat readers with respect and cover the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Behind the Scenes at 48 Hour Magazine

    Heather Powazek Champ/FlickrSunday, 7:07 a.m. Alexis Madrigal and Mat Honan. Five hours left. ​This weekend, a group of San Francisco media friends got together and produced a glossy print magazine, start to finish, in just about 48 hours. The theme was "hustle," and they got 1,502 submissions fro ... More >>

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