USA TODAYIntent on clearing their names, Gordon and his sponsor teamed up again. They brought one of those Internet doubters — Travis Okulski from the car blog Jalopnik — down to Charlotte under the ruse…
Business StandardErin Andrews is set to join ‘Dancing with the Stars’ as a new host, replacing Brooke Burke-Charvet. The 35-year-old journalist, who competed on season 10 of the ABC’s dancing competition, will take over as…
BBC NewsThree journalists from al-Jazeera have denied all charges at the start of a trial in Cairo that has raised concerns about freedom of speech in Egypt. Egyptian-Canadian bureau chief Mohamed Fahmy, Australian reporter Peter…
BloombergNine security officers and a journalist were among the fatalities since yesterday as security forces moved to clear out the main protest camp in Kiev. Thousands gathered on central Independence Square, where burning barricades surround…
SC MagazineAttackers in the Target breach used phishing emails containing malware to steal system credentials from Fazio Mechanical Services, according to a report by technology journalist Brian Krebs. The emails containing malware were sent out…
ABC OnlineThe parents of Australian journalist Peter Greste, set to face trial in Egypt for aiding members of a terrorist organisation, say he seems to be holding up well despite his “shameful” treatment by an…
Houston ChronicleLONDON (AP) — A former tabloid journalist told Britain’s phone hacking trial on Monday that he intercepted voicemails with the knowledge of senior executives — not just at the now-defunct News of the World,…
CelebuzzThis time the object of his pranking was actor Bradley Cooper. The American Hustle star received what appeared to be some very inappropriate and unwanted attention on the red carpet. The 25-year-old Ukrainian journalist somehow…
Sydney Morning Herald… his Twitter page that the country had lost “one of its finest ambassadors”. The journalist’s family said in a statement on Saturday: “The Dumor, Gbeho and allied families with deep sorrow announce…
USA TODAYThe wife of an Indian minister was found dead in a New Delhi hotel room, days after she engaged in a Twitter dispute with a Pakastani journalist she accused of stalking her husband. A…
Sydney Morning HeraldNew Delhi: An Indian minister found his wife dead in a five-star hotel room yesterday shortly after she used Twitter to expose his alleged affair with a Pakistani journalist. Sunanda Pushkar Tharoor, the…
Telegraph.co.ukFrance’s first lady Valérie Trierweiler has been hospitalised suffering from stress after she learned of President François Hollande’s alleged affair with an actress, it was reported on Sunday. The 48-year-old journalist was admitted to a…
Fox NewsDonald Forst, a veteran newsman who led New York Newsday and the Village Voice as they won Pulitzer Prizes and also worked at more than a dozen other newspapers, died Saturday at age 81….
Times of IndiaNEW DELHI: By the time a journalist asked prime minister Manmohan Singh about the possibility of his coming out of retirement if Congressmen felt that a likely UPA 3 could not survive without…
BBC NewsPolice in Ukraine have arrested three suspects over the severe beating of an anti-government activist and journalist, Tetyana Chornovol. In a TV interview from her hospital bed she said the assailants had broken her…
CNN(CNN) — Tetiana Chornovol, a prominent Ukrainian civic activist and journalist beaten on Christmas, said she has a long list of enemies, and that she was sure she would die during the attack. She spoke…
Mirror.co.ukRussia has formally dropped criminal charges against activists arrested on a Greenpeace ship protesting against oil drilling in the Arctic. The environmental protesters and a former Mirror video journalist were seized by authorities and thrown…
BBC NewsTens of thousands of mourners are expected in Johannesburg for a memorial service for Nelson Mandela. US President Barack Obama and the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will be among those paying tribute. The…
Ozzie Newsome, the 57-year-old Cleveland Browns Hall Of Fame Tight End, and as Baltimore Ravens General Manager, the man who was the architect of the team’s two Super Bowl wins, was taken to a local…
Part 1 of 3: The story of being an Atlanta Falcons fan from the UK during the dark times before the internet and Sky TV to the heartbreak of the 2013 NFC Championship game. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
Ryan Davis. The video game journalist died while away on his honeymoon with his new wife. But guess what folks? No one knows why Ryan Davis died. Ryan Davis was just 34 years old and…
Edward Snowden has a new girl in his life: Sarah Harrison. According to WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange, Sarah Harrison is a UK native and member of the WikiLeaks Legal Defense Team. According to accounts, she’s…
UPDATE: Edward Snowden Reportedly To Fly To Oslo, Norway After Moscow. Edward Snowden, the NSA Whisleblower boyfriend of Lindsey Mills, is as of this writing at Moscow Sheremetyevo International Aiport, having arrived on Aeroflot flight…
Is CNN making more personnel changes or did marketing just forget to include it’s weekend anchor, and all-around fill-in-guy Don Lemon? And what about Ali Velshi, who is CNN’s business go-to-guy? Well, Ali’s leaving CNN…
Kobe Bryant’s second major injury this year, a probable torn achillies against the Golden State Warriors at home at Staples Center, has so upset his fans and basketball observers, that they took to Twitter to…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS1WaPkcP_k The Masters is entering its second round as this blog post is being assembled and the buzz of the tournament is Tiger Woods, and for two reasons: 1) he’s the World’s Best Golfer once…
Christopher Jordan Dorner is the fired / retired Los Angeles Police Officer and former Navy Lieutenant. He’s 33 years old and for a set of reasons he details below, has elected to wage war against…
On December 28th 2011, Sanjiv Handa, a friend of mine, passed away of a heart attack. It’s now one year later (time flies) and Sanjiv was the person who kept Oakland on its political and…
This is really annoying: The Nieman Journalism Lab created a series of articles on the “future of journalism” where they looked to people they openly said were the “smartest people we know” then put up…
The Associated Press’ Borys Krawczeniuk, a writer with the Times Tribune of Scranton, Penn, called an obvious white supremacist group called the European American Action Coalition, a “white rights group” and for reasons not explained,…
The Gold Dust Lounge, the famous San Francisco bar on Powell Street that was the focus on a sad battle between the Bovis Brothers and the Handlery Hotel Family, is closing and today’s it’s last…
Oakland probably has the most sexually diverse election race ever. What if I told you that in the District Three Race for Oakland City Council, two of the leading candidates were Gay, and in another…
The Cannes Film Festival is just a day away and what’s the Paris Match headline photo? This one you see of Nicole Kidman in Paperboy. The so-called “retro” movie starring Nicole Kidman and Zac Effron…
Julie Buehler is a one-woman army of awesomeness poised to take the sports media World by storm. I met Julie just before the 2012 NFL Draft, and the video above was made on the first…
Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio Wants Colt’s Jim Irsay Off Twitter Twitter has certainly changed the way people converse, creating access to previously distant celebrities and notaries. And more importantly, the media has had to…
Melinda Beck, a journalist with welcomed me as a psychological expert and contributor to her article, The speed at which the technology industry is infiltrating our lives is taking a toll on our psychological…
Flash: Geraldo Rivera apologizes for Hoodie remark! Apparently the combination of his son’s and America’s outrage over his Hoodie remark has caused the famous commentator and television journalist to see the error of his ways….
To many Bert Sugar is a boxing legend and detailed sports journalist. To this blogger, he was one of the first people I met at my first NFL Draft, in 2005. He passed on today,…
For some reason not yet explained conservative political blogger Andrew Breitbart passed away at 43 years old. Perhaps some key as to his passing lay in the observation that he looked a lot older than…
Very sad news today. Pioneer female journalist Marie Covin of the London Times was killed in Syria. According to CBS News Lara Logan, Covin was in Syria to get what Logan said was a first-person…
East Bay News Service journalist and friend Sanjiv Handa passed away due to causes not yet officially known on Tuesday. His family is holding a memorial service this Saturday morning at 11 AM. Here’s the…
[caption id="attachment_14777" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sanjiv Handa"][/caption]Sanjiv Handa, RP? Still can’t believe it. It’s a good idea to blog to get out of my head the idea that in my reality Sanjiv Handa, Oakland’s Gargoyle – hea…
Sanjiv Handa, RP? Still can’t believe it. It’s a good idea to blog to get out of my head the idea that in my reality Sanjiv Handa, Oakland’s Gargoyle – head of the East Bay…
I have been reading Newsweek since 2003 and when Jon Meacham was the Editor it was at its peak. It was doing great – Newsweek was my favorite magazine, but then in 2010 changes were…
Usually I try to keep my opinions out of blog posts since I am a journalist and I try to be objective, but since this is a blog post I am allowed to express my…
The news is all over that TechCrunch Founder and Editor Michael Arrington may step down from running the blog not just to operate a new venture capital fund, but because the rumor is he was…
At some point, the real time and date I will not disclose, I’m going to subject San Francisco Chronicle Executive Vice President and Editor-At-Large Phil Bronstein to one of my video interviews. This one a…
Grayson Daughters is a friend who’s never at a loss for words, and this occasion at the Mashable Atlanta Social Media Day Party was no exception. Sporting a name tag that read “Mark Halperin,” the…
The activist Professor Cornel West has goals and agendas that are, at best, only partially apparent to the rest of us despite his academic prominence and countless interviews; it’s reasonable to assume that his priorities…
Editor, journalist, political consultant, and former Congressional Campaign Manager Thomas Hayes According to Reuters, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, John Behner, is becoming a target for Tea Partiers who may resort to…
