Alexander C. Kaufman

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Madeleine Brand ‘Presses Play’ on New Noon Show on KCRW

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Madeleine Brand launched her new KCRW show “Press Play” on Monday after spending over a year off public radio airwaves. Long a rush-hour fixture in Los Angeles, she quit her [...]

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If Vox Media is the Next Condé Nast, Will Ezra Klein Build its <i>New Yorker</i>?

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Jim Bankoff sounded brazen in December 2012 discussing his plan for his little digital publisher Vox Media to someday rival the magazine titan housing The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Wired [...]

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Matt Yglesias Named Executive Editor of Ezra Klein’s New Vox Media Venture

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Matt Yglesias will serve as executive editor of the new Vox Media venture founded by Ezra Klein, FishbowlNY has learned. “That is my title,” Yglesias confirmed to FishbowlNY in an [...]

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Does <i>WSJ</i> Have a Problem Disclosing Conflicts of Interest?

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A letter published by The Wall Street Journal on Saturday drew criticism from Jewish groups and readers for comparing recent protests targeting San Francisco’s wealthiest residents to a series of 1938 [...]

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<i>WSJ</i> Allows Former News Corp. Exec to Compare ‘War’ on Rich to Nazi Anti-Semitism

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Nearly eight decades ago, Germans, enraged by Nazi Party propaganda, burned and destroyed Jewish shops and synagogues, killed 91 Jews and arrested 30,000 more, deporting them to concentration camps. To [...]

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Why Rupert Murdoch Bought Out YES Network Two Years Early

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When Rupert Murdoch bought 49 percent of the Yankees- and Brooklyn Nets-focused YES Network over a year ago, he pledged to take a majority stake after three years. On Friday, [...]

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No, Slate Hasn’t Hired Jeb Lund

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Nearly a year ago, Gawker writer Jeb Lund outed his real identity, having long blogged under the nom-de-plume Mobutu Sese Seko, the infamous Congolese dictator. Another revelation: He was leaving Gawker. On [...]

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5 Ways Journalists Are Starting to Jam With Biz Stone’s Jelly

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A week ago, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone launched his new venture, a crowdsourced question-and-answer service called Jelly. And some social media editors are already getting a taste for it. The [...]

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How an <i>LA Times</i> Reporter Learned to Face Death to Understand Life

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In the 2010 HBO documentary about his life, Dr. Jack Kevorkian espoused what he had learned after years of helping disease-addled patients end their own lives: Once you accept death [...]

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Former <i>NY Times</i> Mobile Editor Heads to Meetup

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Top editors just can’t resist shiny new job titles in the Silicon startup scene lately. Nearly a week ago, The Wire editor Gabriel Snyder announced his jump from the Atlantic [...]