Mr. Watson, the head of Ozy Media, said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show that Ozy “is going to open for business.” Ron Conway, an early investor, was critical of his remarks.
Ozy was always a mirage and is a salutary lesson, not least to the Ford Foundation, which is a very demanding grantor and yet appears not to have realised that Ozy was a house of cards.
Producers say they were led to believe they were making a talk show for A&E, which said no to the program. “You are playing a dangerous game with the truth,” the top producer wrote in his resignation email.
“This guy is the biggest shyster I have ever seen in my life,” Osbourne said,
This has to be one of the most amusing angles on this ridiculous story.
A fun product has the same downsides as booze. Instagram’s own internal research makes the case better than any critic. About the author: Derek Thompson is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he writes about economics, technology, and the media.
Not a bad piece, though I continue to believe Facebook is too enormous and too effective to regulate.
What do you do if something is "like cigarettes"? If you can, you quit.
I know Dick well but I would say the answer is "no" if you want to reach certain audiences or feel you have a public duty to do so.
Frances Haugen, the whistleblower behind a series of damaging revelations about Facebook, is adamant that she wants to help the social media giant and not foment hatred of it.
The Public Interest Journalism Fund has bankrolled 110 new journalism jobs - the biggest investment yet from this recent government initiative. News media companies welcomed this boost - but critics claim giving the fund $55 million of public money undermines editorial and financial independence.
Some of you know I was involved in getting this idea implemented. I have some reservations how it is actually working and what is being funded but it seems to me the principle and methods are appropriate.
The board approved a “letter of intent” that could eventually lead to the Sun-Times becoming a subsidiary of Chicago Public Media, and ended a years-long search for a CEO by naming its interim, Matt Moog, to the post.
Sounds similar to what happened in Philadelphia which appears to have worked out really well: deep public interest journalism, sustainable business, and a really valuable connection to academia.
A month ago Piers Morgan gave the thumbs up to Ofcom’s high profile ruling clearing him of breaching the Broadcasting Code over his comments about Meghan Markle on ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
Interesting perspective from a media lawyer expert on what the ruling -- supposedly in favour of Piers Morgan -- means and how it came about.