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Center for Investigative Reporting, The Bay Citizen explore merger 8 Feb 2012 | 09:24 pm
By CIR Staff | February 7, 2011 The Center for Investigative Reporting and The Bay Citizen agreed today to formally explore a merger, a move that would combine the oldest nonprofit investigative news...
KQED-FM Today: Bay Area News 25 Aug 2011 | 01:51 pm
Today's program on KQED Forum: The Bay Area News Group announced yesterday it will consolidate its 11 daily East Bay newspapers and eliminate 120 jobs. With advancements in digital technology, news o...
Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki 9 Aug 2011 | 01:31 pm
It's been sixty-six years since the U.S. military dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, in the process ending World War II, by destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing massive number of c...
Salon Founder David Talbot Returns to the Helm on Interim Basis 9 Jul 2011 | 06:32 am
According to an 8'K filing with the SEC: "On July 7, 2011, Salon Media Group, Inc. (the “Company”) appointed David Talbot, a member of the Company’s Board of Directors, as interim chief executive off...
Google Subpoenaed by FTC 25 Jun 2011 | 04:12 am
According to its 8-K just filed with the SEC, Google has received a subpoena from the FTC, indicating that an antitrust investigation is going forward: On June 23, 2011, Google Inc. received a subpoe...
Salon CEO Gingras Resigns 23 Jun 2011 | 05:35 am
According to an 8-K filing with the SEC, "On June 21, 2011, Mr. Richard Gingras resigned from his position as the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Salon Media Group, Inc. (the “Company”), effe...
An App to Help You Find a Parking Place (But You Still Need to Figure Out How to Parallel Park On Your Own) 19 May 2011 | 07:28 am
The current tech boom is driven partly by location-based apps over mobile devices, or what you might call a Lomo push that employs a lot of coders in Somo and elsewhere around San Francisco. And the ...
Journalism and Innovation 26 Mar 2011 | 02:54 am
Here is the text version of a speech I gave at an event to benefit San Francisco State University's journalism department last night in downtown San Francisco. March 24, 2011 Around the middle of 199...
Link: Women's Use of Social Media: "More Thoughtful and Intentional" 29 Jan 2011 | 11:59 am
Now on 7x7.com: Women's Use of Social Media: "More Thoughtful and Intentional" "Since it's a cliche that men and women are as different as, say, Venus and Mars, it should come as no surprise that the...
Little Startup Fwix Takes on AOL, Google and Yahoo in Local Search Battle 21 Jan 2011 | 06:59 am
"If this is the first time you've heard of Darian Shirazi, it's a safe bet it won't be the last..." (Link to 7x7.com) http://www.7x7.com/arts/berkeley-dropout-darian-shirazis-plan-win-hyperlocal-game...
