“Paper is dying, but it’s just a device.” So says Nick Bilton, editor in the New York Times research and development lab. Bilton talked with Wired about what he sees as the future of news delivery, and paper, in his view,  is not going to go away, but it will play a smaller role i...

These days it's all about making your free web site "go viral" right? Maybe that was the all-too-common business plan in recent years - but many people were uncomfortable with that vision at a time of relative economic well-being. You can imagine how crazy such a plan sounds now. Well-known PR pro J...

"We want the dead to rest easy, knowing their obligations are taken care of."MICHAEL GINSBERG, of Kaulkin Ginsberg, a consulting company to the debt collection industry. -- NY Times I personally believe the debts of the dead should be erased. The fact that prick insinuates the dead won't rest easy i...

It seems like it was my first day on the job; I don't remember -- sometime in that early era of my career with GateHouse Media -- Boston.com linked to a story on a GateHouse New England Web site. It was about a murder and a GateHouse reporter had the scoop. The link from the Boston.com home pag...

In your funereal Thursday media column: the Rocky Mountain News is dead, we'll all see more dead soldiers, the New York Times is dying slowly [UPDATED: ad layoffs], and Tribune is dying quickly: After almost 150 years in business, the Rocky Mountain News is dead. It's the first major big-city paper ...

"[T]he issue of toilet paper has become less of a joke (except when celebrities express an opinion) and more of a cause: since the fluffy kind cannot be made from recycled paper, conservationists argue, consumers can do their part to protect the environment by buying the rougher stuff." I just have ...

It's Thursday—the day when the New York Times Style section constructs tenuous trend stories designed to infuriate us about largely illusory issues! Woo hoo! Today's trend: crazy parents turn their kids into health food zombies! Sure, you want to teach your kids to eat healthy food. But some p...

The New York Post issued an angry non-apology for Sean Delonas' monkey cartoon. The New York Times issued a mealy-mouthed non-apology for its winking John McCain(*cough*SEX*cough*)-lobbyist story. Please; it's very important to non-apologize correctly: Don't say 'If you were offended...'—Or wo...

By Sean Mills Noticed something interesting today on the web. Not once, but twice, News Corp properties said something nice about The New York Times, or at least referenced their content as interesting and discussion worthy. First, Andrew LaVelle of the Wall Street Journal penned this post to the Di...

Noticed something interesting today on the web. Not once, but twice, News Corp properties said something nice about The New York Times, or at least referenced their content as interesting and discussion worthy. First, Andrew LaVelle of the Wall Street Journal penned this post to the Digits blog, bas...