This morning, a new buyout offer began circulating in The Washington Post newsroom. This is the paper’s fifth round of buyouts since 2004. The Washington Post Company, which owns the Post, Slate, a community newspaper group, and an educational… Read more

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Anti-ACTA-Demonstration in Paris (Foto: D. Julien; Quelle: Flickr CC BY 2.0) Der Netz-Protest gegen amerikanische Gesetzentwürfe zur Bekämpfung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen (SOPA und PIPA) Anfang des Jahres zeigte Wirkung. Nun steht die nächste Nagelprobe ins Haus: Das ACTA-Abkommen geht in die entscheidende Phase und das Netz läuft erneut Sturm. Für den 11. Februar sind hunderte Demonstrationen geplant. Am 18. Januar 2012 ließ das Internet die Muskeln spielen: Unzählige Webseiten rund um den ...  show all text

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Some said Roland’s tweets about the H&M David Beckham Super Bowl ad were the equivalent of urging violence against gay men.

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Six of the top 10 super PACs active in the 2012 elections have received money from untraceable sources, including nonprofits and shell corporations, according to a report released today by two progressive advocacy groups.

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Syrian activists inside besieged neighborhoods in the city of Homs posted more disturbing and often graphic video clips on YouTube on Wednesday, showing what they said was the deadly toll of new attacks on civilian areas.

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An Internet troll who posts allegedly hateful and racist remarks on Facebook's RIP sites, seems blase about his activities when he is intercepted by a BBC reporter.

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Last year marked the 150th anniversary of the start of the American Civil War, a milestone commemorated by The Atlantic in a special issue (

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Bill Keller: I heard you like copyright. You wrote one provocative print column about it on Sunday, one blistering blog followup on Monday, and pointed to a third Times op-ed piece from Sunday (headline: "Perpetual War: Digital Pirates amd Creators") that says basically the same thing.  So here's an interesting data point: on Saturday, the New York Times blatantly and willfully violated the copyright of another publisher -- our publisher, actually. On the Times op-ed (web) page. And in a blog f...  show all text

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The Atlantic covers news and analysis on politics, business, culture, technology, national, international and life on the official site of The Atlantic Magazine.

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UPDATE Thanks for excellent questions. I am leaving now but will return for a cleanup run around 6pm EST today and will answer as many more as I can at that time Here's a little more background on my career: I've been a national correspondent for The Atlantic since the late 1970s. Through about half that time I've lived in Washington DC. In the other half, I've lived in and reported from Seattle, Berkeley, Austin, Tokyo, Kuala Lumpur, Shanghai, and Beijing. I spent two years as chief White Ho...  show all text

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Remember all that talk of how the supporters of SOPA/PIPA were "humbled" by the protests of January 18th, and how they had learned their lessons about trying to push through a bill without actually involving the stakeholders? Remember the...

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Guardian News & Media to take minority stake in US media and technology network as part of sale for undisclosed sum The digital media news website paidContent has been acquired by the US media and technology network, GigaOM. Guardian News & Media confirmed on Wednesday that paidContent had been purchased by GigaOM in for an undisclosed amount. The publisher of the Guardian and MediaGuardian.co.uk paid £4m for the ContentNext Media websites, which include paidContent and mocoNews, in July 2008. ...  show all text

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Hot off the press release presses: tech blog GigaOm has acquired paidContent (and parent company ContentNext) from The Guardian. Rumors of the acquisition were first reported by Peter Kafka at AllThingsD. Wrote GigaOm founder Om Malik in a blog post: “ The ethos of paidContent and our company are in sync. GigaOM’s core belief is that as connectivity becomes ubiquitous, it changes everything from society to business to we the people. paidContent from the very beginning has been built on the idea...  show all text

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Media and Internet giants at odds over dealing with purloined content on the Web may need to agree first on exactly how bad the problem is.

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Yes, it’s true: We are joining GigaOM. And the combined group will be a powerhouse, with more than 20 writers and editors, a strong presence on the East and West coasts and in Europe, and coverage of everything from media and big data, to the cloud and mobile, to book publishing and online video—not to mention the startup scene in various markets. It’s a very exciting development for us, as ContentNext and GigaOM share so many of the same goals and have such similar cultures. We both believe fu...  show all text

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First the news: Yes, the rumors are true. We are indeed buying the assets of ContentNext Media from Guardian News & Media Limited. And no, we are not disclosing the terms of the deal, except that we are buying the entire group of properties — paidContent.org, mocoNews.net, contentSutra and paidContent:UK and that a representative of Guardian News & Media will join our board of directors as an observer. A few weeks ago when Paul Walborsky, CEO of GigaOM, came to the board and suggested that we ...  show all text

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High court judges consider whether Paul Chambers' tweet about blowing up Robin Hood airport was a joke or a real threat

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Trying to keep up with the latest developments in campaign financing? Join the Sunlight Foundation in Washington, D.C., for a two-day training session for journalists, April 21-22, 2012.

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As Sky News clamps down on staff Twitter updates, corporation tells reporters to file copy before tweeting it BBC journalists have been told not to break news stories on Twitter before they tell their newsroom colleagues. The new rules, which apply to all of the corporation's correspondents, reporters and producers, were announced on Wednesday a day after it was revealed Sky News had told its journalists not to repost information from any Twitter users who are not an employee of the broadcaster...  show all text

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The paper, struggling to overcome the decline in advertising, has reduced the size of its newsroom staff by more than 200 people over the last three years.

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On Tuesday a young Sky News producer became a cause celebre, on Twitter at least. Under the hashtag #savefieldproducer he became one of the most-discussed subjects on the social networking service, after the leaking of what appeared to be a restrictive new social media policy at Sky.

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When it comes to copyright enforcement, American content companies are already armed to the teeth, yet they persist in using secretly negotiated trade agreements to further their agenda. In the past weeks, Americans have been realizing that the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) might not have been the Great War, but a short battle in hostilities of grander proportions. This is not the first time copyright policy-making has lacked balance, lost its sense of proportion, or threatened civil liberti...  show all text

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There’s a reason why The Onion’s recent HuffPo-tweaking satire — ‘Huffington Post’ Employee Sucked Into Aggregation Turbine / Horrified Workers Watch As Colleague Torn Apart By Powerful Content-Gathering Engine — resonated with so many reporters. “It’s because nobody wants to feel like a cog,” Salon editor-in-chief Kerry Lauerman told me. “I think it’s our fear as journalists that we’re turning into cogs of a machine.” Lauerman referenced that Onion piece in a Tuesday blog post that outlined a ...  show all text

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Norwegian developer Even Westvang has taken public data about how his compatriots move around their country and leave home and visualised it in this beautiful animation

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You can follow someone on Twitter and friend them on Facebook, but real friends are people you break bread with.

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