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“Of the web, not on it”: Emily Bell on the success of The Guardian and what she plans for the Tow Center

Before Emily Bell crossed the pond to head up the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia's J-school, she led the Guardian's website, helping to build it into one of the most heavily trafficked news sites in the world. At a lunch talk at Harvard's Shorenstein Center today, Bell shared her insights into what made...

Amazon’s WikiLeaks Author Explains Why He Yanked His Book–And Why He’s Selling It Again

You might think twice about publishing a WikiLeaks e-book if you got threatening emails, too. An odd chapter to a weird story.

Amazon Explains Why It’s Okay to Sell Books About the WikiLeaks Stuff It Won’t Host

Because it's commentary. Duh. Though Amazon could have made that clearer from the jump.

How I Won the Washington Post Pundit Contest with Social Media

I'll forgive you if you don't yet know it, but I'm America's Next Great Pundit -- or at least that's what Washington Post readers decided last week. After reading everything from blogs to live Q&A chats to video roundtables to traditio...

Daily Beast’s Tina Brown Brags About "Interesting Discussions" With Newsweek

How are things at the Daily Beast, which turns two today? Awesome, says Tina Brown--so awesome that Barry Diller may end up pawning the thing off to Newsweek and new owner Sidney Harman.

Turning Right

A biography of Norman Podhoretz and a history of the magazine he edited tell the story of the neoconservative movement.

Benjamin Balint’s Inside Look at Podhoretz’s Commentary

Benjamin Balint’s inside look at Commentary is just one of several new books about Norman Podhoretz and his influential magazine.

Confirmed! Reddit Users Really, Really Dislike Pop-Up Ads.

It is all Apple, all the time in techland this week. Except at Reddit, where the social news site's users spent most of yesterday obsessing about something else: A rogue ad.

Dr. Horrible’s Commentary! The Musical Makes it Onto iTunes

We love us some Dr. Horrible, so we’ve been wondering if the commentary tracks from the video — which had previously been unavailable except on its DVD — would ever make their way to some sort of digital distribution. And now, thanks to a tweet by Horrible co-writer Maurissa Tancharoen, we’ve learned that Commentary! The...