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Four Ways Lists Make Us Immortal, According To Umberto Eco
5:48AM Ryan Tate | Italian novelist Umberto Eco, the go-to intellectual for journalists worldwide, has deconstructed the human obsession with all things list-y. The bottom line for editors: Your listicles help readers brush off a terrifying universe of infinite chaos. More »
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Papers Find Facebook Status Too Risque To Print
9:39PM Ravi Somaiya | The Post and the Times both covered this story, about a man accused of robbery whose alibi was a Facebook status update. Both papers though, censored the update itself, which was apparently “indecipherable”. Except it wasn’t. More »
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Wall Street Journal Takes On Local News
6:12AM Hamilton Nolan | The Wall Street Journal is planning to hire a dozen new staffers to cover local news in NYC, Media Decoder reports. Let us point out every last implication to this news! More »
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The Great Newspaper Firewall Is Coming. And?
1:57AM Hamilton Nolan | Newsday is going to start charging for its awful website. One columnist there quit over it. The New York Times says it will make a decision on charging for its (good) website “within weeks”. Then what happens? More »
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The Layoff Parade: Teen Vogue, Forbes, Time Inc.
4:20AM Hamilton Nolan | In today’s dark media column, the layoff train is rollin’ down the tracks that many magazines now regret installing in their offices. More »
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Gigantic Seagull Stalks Aussie Newsman
4:30AM Hamilton Nolan | Look out behind you, Australian newscaster Peter Hitchiner; it’s the world’s hugest f—king seagull. Right behind you. [Thanks, A.]
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Was Gourmet’s Death The Magazine Bottom?
4:54AM Hamilton Nolan | In today’s media column: a sunny theory about Conde Nast, and the AP’s crazy scheme, for money. More »
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Magazine’s Product Of Year Doesn’t Actually Exist
10:09AM Ryan Tate | Popular Mechanics just named TechCrunch publisher Mike Arrington’s tablet computer one of its top ten products of 2009. Which is amazing — amazingly ridiculous — given no one outside TechCrunch has even held one. More »
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