Amy Howe used to think 3,000 live blog participants was a lot. Thursday, more than 500,000 users tuned into SCOTUSblog to find out how the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on health care and what it meant. Read more »
I thought it would be cool to be retweeted by the President, but it kind of sucked. Read more »
Atlantic Media continues its push to remake its properties with a digital-first business model with the hiring of Jessica Perry as Digital V… Read more »
Time Magazine is offering some special content to Foursquare users who check in at the Republican National Convention in Tampa in August or… Read more »
Missing Keith Olbermann during Countdown-less Iowa caucus coverage on Current TV? Olbermann tweeted that he’ll be back Wednesday night but t… Read more »
As it has done on its website, the New York Times (NYSE: NYT) is experimenting with a mix of free and paid content through its standalone ne… Read more »
This summer, Politico signed a deal with Random House to publish four instant e-books about the 2012 presidential campaign. Now Politico has… Read more »
As election season approaches, Random House’s Crown Publishing is teaming up with political website RealClearPolitics to publish a four-book… Read more »
YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) is launching a new politics site today that it hopes will offer a “holistic” view of the candidates on the campaign tri… Read more »
Usually my e-mail from Starbucks (NSDQ: SBUX) is about the new reserve coffee or some other promo about the company’s products. But the mess… Read more »
National Journal, the politics and public policy publisher headquartered in Washington, D.C. and owned by the Atlantic Media Group, is looki… Read more »
Patch, which has continued to grow rapidly in the wake of AOL’s purchase of the Huffington Post earlier this year, is launching 33 hyperloca… Read more »
Late Monday afternoon, Arianna Huffington tweeted a picture from AOL (NYSE: AOL) headquarters with the note “Valentine’s Day transition meet… Read more »
Tim Armstrong, already the largest individual shareholder in AOL (NYSE: AOL) as well as chairman and CEO, nearly doubled his stake in the co… Read more »
The Washington Post will be hawking its election day coverage by buying a “promoted trend” on Twitter, marking the first time that a news co… Read more »
Just in case it wasn’t abundantly obvious to any of the 200,000-plus in attendance how serious he was about his message, Jon Stewart closed… Read more »
The period after Labor Day marks the official start of the political season, so Fox News believes it’s the right time to introduce its first… Read more »
When Robert Allbritton put the money and power of Allbritton Communications behind a new DC political news site in 2007, no one knew what to… Read more »
Since the Supreme Court struck down limits on corporate spending on political candidates ads, media companies have been salivating over the… Read more »
The Huffington Post is making its second acquisition in less than a month, buying up poll aggregator Pollster.com from polling firm YouGov P… Read more »
Nate Silver’s popular political blog, FiveThirtyEight, is moving over to the NYT just in time for election season. Silver says in a blog pos… Read more »
It doesn’t get much more surreal than this. I’m headed north from Miami on the second deck of the Tri-Rail train using an AT&T (NYSE: T) 3G… Read more »
Confirmed: The companies have confirmed the acquisition in a release. Bloggers Ed Morrissey and AllahPundit will join the new company, and t… Read more »
Several broadcast companies that reported earnings in the past few weeks have pointed out that TV station revenues were down due to the lack… Read more »
There’s one other big event going on today — a presentation of the state (as opposed to the slate, as Microsoft’s Lewis Shepherd helpfully… Read more »
With $3 million in venture-capital funding in the bank and 21 full-time reporters on its masthead, Tucker Carlson’s political news site, The… Read more »
The juggernaut called Politico keeps on rolling, nevermind the recession, thank you. And some changes in company structure may hint at what… Read more »
President Obama sent text messages to his supporters during the election, and now he’s preparing to send messages to all citizens regarding… Read more »
The government is working on “drastically amending” the Press and Registration of Books Act of 1867, which regulates the print media in the… Read more »
If you have a war chest of $16 billion to throw at TV and print advertising, you don’t need to mess around with piddly little banner ads, ri… Read more »
Updated: The Daily Caller, the Huffington Post-style political news site being set up by right wing pundit Tucker Carlson and former Dick Ch… Read more »
Left-leaning political blog Talking Points Memo (TPM) is losing its deputy publisher, Andrew Golis. Golis is headed over to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHO… Read more »
Polling firm Rasmussen Reports has received a “major growth capital investment” from media private equity firm Noson Lawen Partners. The com… Read more »
In Pakistan, it turns out, if you forward an SMS joke about President Asif Ali Zardari, you’ll have little to laugh about for 14 years. Paki… Read more »
The founders of SpinSpotter.com, a now-defunct website that let users flag cases of “bias” and “spin” on the internet, are trying anew with… Read more »
When Al Gore-backed progressive, creative TV channel Current launched in 2005, the idea was to run on-air the best user-submitted videos fro… Read more »
Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) and CNN have surveyed CNN’s online audience and found that of those people with mobile internet 56 percent access onli… Read more »
Cellphone coverage during the inauguration was spotty and text messages arrived sometimes an hour after they were sent during today’s inaugu… Read more »
– The Orchard (NSDQ: ORCD) Moves Into Japan: The Orchard has formed a strategic alliance with Japanese company Avex, which is the key share… Read more »
There were two standout mobile events in 2008: The Beijing Olympics and the presidential election — in the latter, text was a critical comp… Read more »
