Seventy-nine days later, though the BP Oil Disaster is still raging, the energy giant's new July 27 timeline has given some a cause for optimism. But a new Associated Press investigation shows we might have more problems to worry about: 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells in the Gulf of Mexico run the...
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The latest interesting installment in the reality show world comes not from the U.S. or Britain, but all the way from Malaysia. The show, "Imam Muda" (or "Young Leader"), seeks to find a young, male, Muslim "leader for these times."
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MTV has reportedly begun the search for the network’s first Twitter Jockey, an internet savvy individual who will act as a liaison between MTV viewers and executives via the eponymous social networking site. Duties include reporting on MTV events, interacting with the audience through tweets, and sporadically crawling away from the computer to appear...
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Rod Blagojevich’s former chief of staff and one-time law school roommate Alonzo Monk took the stand at Blago’s corruption trial yesterday as one of the first witnesses to testify. But this isn’t a student court case between bunk mates about a stolen sweater. This is the real deal, and Monk has a lot to...
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Some people lay face-down in shark infested water with a tube strapped to their head and call it snorkeling. AP reporter Rich Matthews does essentially the same thing, but instead of sharks in the water there's oil, and instead of snorkeling, he calls it investigative reporting.
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Univision, the dominant Spanish language network in the United States, is further inserting itself into the red-hot debate about immigration policy.
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Joe Biden just handed the media an easy comic relief story (and a gaffe), but with the great power to entertain also comes the great responsibility not to offend. So how did the mainstream media chose to report the story without using Biden's off-color adjective for the health care bill law?
Ink-stained wretches, it's not just you! The social media and Twitter elite fret about the future of journalism too — and wonder how it will survive the digital revolution. At SXSWi, there was no shortage of panels obsessively deconstructing this topic (and tweeting about it, natch).
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White-label video publishing company thePlatform has rolled out new features that will allow video publishers to utilize social sharing functionality in their video players, enabling viewers to embed clips on social networks and personal web sites. The new features will also allow publishers to monetize those video views by extending advertising onto embedded players...
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As I wrote in January, Walmart is indeed interested in buying Vudu, the online movie service. I was off about one thing, though--the price.Walmart will be paying more than $100 million for the service, people familiar with the deal tell me. That's much more than the $50 million I had previously heard Vudu was...
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