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May 8, 2012
The 10 Best Quotes from Steve Albini's Ask Me Anything on Reddit
Today, cranky lord of the mixing board Steve Albini submitted himself to an Ask Me Anything on Reddit. This means that random users asked him random questions for a few hours, and he gave responses as he saw fit. Many of the answers were very, very interesting. Steve Albini, of course, is the owner ... More >>
Blogs
April 10, 2012
Are People Finally Getting Bored with the Tech-Blog Circle Jerk?
At this point, I have to believe that all the people in the Pando Daily-TechCrunch-Uncrunched-whatever micro-universe have consciously incorporated their onanistic little circle jerk into their collective business model. You can almost picture it just that way: Michael Arrington, Sarah Lacy, MG Sieg ... More >>
Blogs
February 13, 2012
S.F. Not the Welfare State of Conservative Nightmares, New York Times Finds
San Francisco is a favorite punching bag of right-wing provocateurs who decry it as a West Coast bastion of European-style socialism. (Whatever that might be.) Sadly, even some of our city's local journalists buy into the pat image of San Francisco as a cautionary tale of the excesses of expansiv ... More >>
Blogs
February 10, 2012
Why The Bay Citizen Can't Hack It Alone Anymore
The Bay Citizen was funded with a $5 million gift from Warren Hellman to be an independent news organization in the Bay Area. But after two years in operation, it's being taken over by the Center for Investigative Reporting.How did this happen? Their billionaire died It turns out there actually ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Newspaper Guild Blasts Mayor Jean Quan Over Arrest of Reporters at Occupy Oakland
Plenty of people are unhappy all around about what happened in downtown Oakland Saturday evening -- journalists included. Hundreds of police in riot gear descended on a planned Occupy Oakland rally over the weekend, which escalated into another violent scene where more than 400 people were arrest ... More >>
Blogs
January 27, 2012
Michael Scott Moore, Former SF Weekly Writer, Kidnapped by Somali Pirates
Michael Scott Moore, who previously worked as a theater critic for SF Weekly, was reportedly captured by Somali pirates over the weekend while he was traveling to central Somalia to research for his book about Somali pirates. The LA Times reports that Moore was on his way to the airport when 15 m ... More >>
Blogs
January 6, 2012
Phil Bronstein Resigns from the Chronicle
Former Chron editor Phil Bronstein confirmed today rumors that he is indeed leaving the newspaper after more than three decades with Hearst. However, Bronstein, 61, isn't leaving the news business.The 61-year-old tells us he will be taking on a larger role at the Center for Investigative Reportin ... More >>
Blogs
December 16, 2011
San Francisco Among California's Top Three Job-Creating Cities
"Pandering to the conventional wisdom," former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller once observed, is "the mortal sin of journalism." There are plenty of journalistic sinners out there, particularly when it comes to the conventional wisdom on San Francisco.Self-consciously middle-of-the-ro ... More >>
News
December 7, 2011
SF Weekly Letters
"Pandering to the conventional wisdom," former New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller once observed, is "the mortal sin of journalism." There are plenty of journalistic sinners out there, particularly when it comes to the conventional wisdom on San Francisco.Self-consciously middle-of-the-ro ... More >>
Blogs
November 21, 2011
Ten Muppets You Probably Don't Know (But Should!)
The Muppets' staying power is an inspiration. What was borne from the silly idea of anthropomorphizing felt later forged a brand that has redefined the puppet industry, and greater entertainment industry, to this day. (The newest film, The Muppets, is scheduled for release Wednesday, Nov. 23.) And t ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2011
State Launches Investigation of Bay Area Lawyers Involved in Hunger Strike Negotiations
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has barred two Bay Area attorneys from entering Pelican Bay State Prison as a hunger strike drags on at the facility, asserting that it is investigating them for alleged illegal activity that compromised prison security.The attorneys are ... More >>
Blogs
October 4, 2011
Apple Unveils ~~iPhone 5~~ iPhone 4S Today
Unlike Apple CEO Tim Cook, we're going to cut to the chase and tell you what you really want to know from the Let's Talk iPhone event that kicked off at 10 a.m. today at Apple headquarters in Cupertino. For the tech journalists who sat through the three-hour conference, perhaps a more fitting nam ... More >>
Blogs
September 13, 2011
Anonymous Makes Everyone Reporters with a DIY Press Pass
Jonno Witts via FlickrAnyone can be a reporter, reallyAfter a half-dozen journalists were arrested during last week's BART protests because they did not have press passes, Anonymous decided to make it that much easier for just about anyone who can use the Internet to remain at the protests -- leg ... More >>
Blogs
September 6, 2011
Michael Arrington's Rhetorical Jiu Jitsu
The defense that Michael Arrington and TechCrunch have mounted against charges that the tech-news site has violated ethical norms comes down to: "Trust me." But of course, that won't cut it. As with laws, ethics rules exist because people can't be trusted to always police themselves. Even if m ... More >>
Blogs
August 11, 2011
Tech Blogger Off the Hook for iPhone Exposé
Screenshot from Jason Chen's video, April 2010Gizmodo tech blogger Jason Chen has been let off the hook for buying and writing about an unreleased iPhone 4 prototype left in a Redwood City bar by an Apple engineer. Chen, a senior editor at Gizmodo, made headlines last April when he released photo ... More >>
Blogs
July 11, 2011
Huffington Post Suspends Reporter for Rewriting Article
Arianna HuffingtonIf you're at all familiar with The The Huffington Post, the above headline should sound odd. The Website spawned by journalistic dilettante Arianna Huffington built its wild success, after all, largely on "aggregating" (read: rewriting without performing actual reporting) the ne ... More >>
Film
June 29, 2011
"Page One": Producer Kate Novak on Getting Inside the New York Times
Arianna HuffingtonIf you're at all familiar with The The Huffington Post, the above headline should sound odd. The Website spawned by journalistic dilettante Arianna Huffington built its wild success, after all, largely on "aggregating" (read: rewriting without performing actual reporting) the ne ... More >>
News
June 15, 2011
SFPD Tries to Fire Cop for Balking at Conducting Illegal Searches
Arianna HuffingtonIf you're at all familiar with The The Huffington Post, the above headline should sound odd. The Website spawned by journalistic dilettante Arianna Huffington built its wild success, after all, largely on "aggregating" (read: rewriting without performing actual reporting) the ne ... More >>
Blogs
May 3, 2011
No, Twitter Hasn't Replaced CNN
It's become perfectly predictable: Every time there's a major news event, people spend several days talking about how Twitter and Facebook are replacing traditional news organizations -- the (sigh) "MSM." Even if the word "replacing" isn't used, that's often the implicationIn the present case -- ... More >>
Music
April 27, 2011
Battles: Show Preview
It's become perfectly predictable: Every time there's a major news event, people spend several days talking about how Twitter and Facebook are replacing traditional news organizations -- the (sigh) "MSM." Even if the word "replacing" isn't used, that's often the implicationIn the present case -- ... More >>
Blogs
April 26, 2011
HuffPo to Expand to San Francisco
A job is when you are paid So, Arianna Huffington is making plans to expand her media empire, the Huffington Post, to San Francisco. Once we learned that, we had to call the guild workers here -- you know the ones who started the "Hey Ariana, could you spare a dime," Facebook page. It's hard to n ... More >>
Blogs
April 19, 2011
Bay Area Newspapers: How Much Longer Until They Are Extinct?
It's worse than you think.So you think the Bay Area's newspapers are bad now - they are only going to get worse. A new survey shows that local newspapers will continue to strip away what little staff and resources they have left. Newspapers will get leaner, despite the fact that they have already ... More >>
News
April 13, 2011
News Media Continues Its Slow Decline
It's worse than you think.So you think the Bay Area's newspapers are bad now - they are only going to get worse. A new survey shows that local newspapers will continue to strip away what little staff and resources they have left. Newspapers will get leaner, despite the fact that they have already ... More >>
Blogs
April 6, 2011
Newsroom Jobs Down 49.4% in Bay Area, 36.4% in U.S.
The good ol' days Bay Area news jobs have shrunk by nearly half in the last decade, which is a worse showing than newsrooms overall nationwide, which declined by about one-third, according to a new federally funded report. Not that we needed a federal report commissioned to tell us that the marke ... More >>
Blogs
March 21, 2011
Britain's Daily Mail Rips Off SF Weekly Cover Story
SF Weekly's U visa story, for all your churnalism needs.Browsing our Google alerts this morning, we came across an eerily familiar story about U visas -- "The 'crime visa': How 18,000 illegal immigrants got legal status by being the victim of crime." Oh, wait: This was actually our cover article ... More >>
News
January 12, 2011
Bait Car Pays SFPD to Entice Drivers to Steal Cars
SF Weekly's U visa story, for all your churnalism needs.Browsing our Google alerts this morning, we came across an eerily familiar story about U visas -- "The 'crime visa': How 18,000 illegal immigrants got legal status by being the victim of crime." Oh, wait: This was actually our cover article ... More >>
Blogs
December 28, 2010
New WiFi Hotspot in San Francisco? Bah Humbug!
This Just In: Radio-Wave-Borne Computer Messages Discovered In SF Office ComplexIn Year's Deadest News Week, TV Reports There's WiFi in an Office ComplexThe week between Christmas and New Year's is the news businesses' deadest. Bureaucrats, politicians and business honchos aren't in their offices ... More >>
Blogs
November 24, 2010
Village Voice Media Response to Ruling in California Below-Cost Pricing Suit
For more than a century, the California Supreme Court has interpreted antitrust law as protecting consumers from high prices, not protecting the profits of entrenched market leaders who fear competition. The Supreme Court's refusal yesterday to follow Justice Joyce Kennard's wishes and hear ... More >>
Calendar
November 10, 2010
The Thrill and the Agony
For more than a century, the California Supreme Court has interpreted antitrust law as protecting consumers from high prices, not protecting the profits of entrenched market leaders who fear competition. The Supreme Court's refusal yesterday to follow Justice Joyce Kennard's wishes and hear ... More >>
Blogs
October 1, 2010
The Story of 'Storify' -- Written on 'Storify'
Web journalists today operate within a "link economy." As well as doing their own reporting, they're responsible for "curating" information published elsewhere. The goal is to be responsive and collaborative -- to join the conversation around a story -- rather than ignoring what competitors are s ... More >>
Blogs
September 23, 2010
Mattel Launches News Anchor Barbie
Putting the "fox" back in Fox News.Just when you thought certain airheads on network cable news couldn't get anymore plastic, Mattel has immortalized the entire profession with its very own Barbie. Actually she won in the inaugural global vote. While the popular vote went toward a computer engine ... More >>
Blogs
September 17, 2010
NewsTilt Was An Obvious Disaster From the Beginning
Oh, the humanity...There's been a lot of discussion today about Paul Biggar's account of the demise of NewsTilt, an online startup that aimed to save journalism by connecting journalists directly with readers. NewsTilt would provide journalists with a web framework and help them to build communit ... More >>
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August 4, 2010
Representatives of the Media
Oh, the humanity...There's been a lot of discussion today about Paul Biggar's account of the demise of NewsTilt, an online startup that aimed to save journalism by connecting journalists directly with readers. NewsTilt would provide journalists with a web framework and help them to build communit ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2010
First Kremlin Tweet Sent from Twitter's San Francisco Headquarters
Hello everyone, I'm now on Twitter and this is my first messageThe history of Twitter is strewn with specialness -- celebrity tweets, happy birthday tweets, tweets advertising that the tweeter had just taken a nice dump -- but the company today enjoyed one of its most special days ever with the d ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2010
Caustic Scribe Hitchens Cancels West Coast Swing
A hitch in the plansWe've just received word of a metaphysical disaster: professional polemicist Christopher Hitchens has canceled a string of West Coast appearances, including one scheduled tomorrow afternoon at the Commonwealth Club.His excuse is "personal issues," and reading his books and art ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
Get a Newspaper Job, No 'Complexity, Analysis or Narrative' Required
I CAN HAZ NEWSPAPER JOBPaging David Simon: The San Diego Union-Tribune is reportedly laying off about 35 journalists from their newsroom, and replacing them with new "Jr. Staff Writers." What will these "Jr. Staff Writers" do? According to the journalismjobs.com posting: "Under supervision, will ... More >>
Blogs
June 17, 2010
YouTube Explains Top Secret 'News Experiment' to Local Media, But Doesn't Really
Sometimes this new media transition thing can be so, how you say, awkward. According to SFAppeal blogger Eve Batey, Google-owned video aggregator YouTube is up to some hush hush citizen journalism project here in our very own San Francisco. Apparently part of a select group of "San Francisco blogger ... More >>
Blogs
April 23, 2010
Four Bay Area Publications Win National Magazine Awards
A coveted Ellie.Every year since 1966, the American Society of Magazine Editors and Columbia University's school of journalism have issued National Magazine Awards, more commonly known as Ellie's (the trophies look at lot like elephants). The Bay Area cleaned up this year, with four local magazin ... More >>
Blogs
April 16, 2010
Apple May Lift Free Speech Limits on Pulitzer-Winning Cartoonist Mark Fiore
Less than a week after he won the Pulitzer prize for editorial cartoons -- making him the first recipient of journalism's Big Prize among online cartoonists -- Mark Fiore is getting a second shot at creating an iPad app from Apple, which had previously shunned his work because it lampoons public fig ... More >>
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March 24, 2010
Disruptive Students
Less than a week after he won the Pulitzer prize for editorial cartoons -- making him the first recipient of journalism's Big Prize among online cartoonists -- Mark Fiore is getting a second shot at creating an iPad app from Apple, which had previously shunned his work because it lampoons public fig ... More >>
News
March 3, 2010
S.F. State student who invoked Shield Law reveals murder scene photo in national contest
Less than a week after he won the Pulitzer prize for editorial cartoons -- making him the first recipient of journalism's Big Prize among online cartoonists -- Mark Fiore is getting a second shot at creating an iPad app from Apple, which had previously shunned his work because it lampoons public fig ... More >>
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September 23, 2009
Russian Ink
Less than a week after he won the Pulitzer prize for editorial cartoons -- making him the first recipient of journalism's Big Prize among online cartoonists -- Mark Fiore is getting a second shot at creating an iPad app from Apple, which had previously shunned his work because it lampoons public fig ... More >>
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July 8, 2009
Zak Smith
Less than a week after he won the Pulitzer prize for editorial cartoons -- making him the first recipient of journalism's Big Prize among online cartoonists -- Mark Fiore is getting a second shot at creating an iPad app from Apple, which had previously shunned his work because it lampoons public fig ... More >>
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May 20, 2009
Go Content! Beat Ignorance!
Less than a week after he won the Pulitzer prize for editorial cartoons -- making him the first recipient of journalism's Big Prize among online cartoonists -- Mark Fiore is getting a second shot at creating an iPad app from Apple, which had previously shunned his work because it lampoons public fig ... More >>
Dining
October 10, 2007
Students file class-action lawsuit against California Culinary Academy
Less than a week after he won the Pulitzer prize for editorial cartoons -- making him the first recipient of journalism's Big Prize among online cartoonists -- Mark Fiore is getting a second shot at creating an iPad app from Apple, which had previously shunned his work because it lampoons public fig ... More >>
News
February 28, 2007
Must Work for Free
By not paying their interns, some Bay Area publications may be violating the state labor code
News
November 30, 2005
Craig$list.com
The much-loved Web site is taking millions from Bay Area newspapers and causing layoffs that adversely affect coverage. And its founder's well-intentioned support of citizen journalism has a slim chance of fixing the problem.
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July 22, 1998
Mecklin
The much-loved Web site is taking millions from Bay Area newspapers and causing layoffs that adversely affect coverage. And its founder's well-intentioned support of citizen journalism has a slim chance of fixing the problem.
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