February 27, 2009
The Rocky Mountain News has rolled the presses for the last time. Here's your Media Crack another-one-bites-the-dust edition: Everyone is competing to be more-elegiacal-than-thou in Romenesko-mourning the Rocky Mountain News, a Denver newspaper which, in the end, was only notable for being the loser...
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Owen Thomas
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February 03, 2009
Last March, the NYT noted how well rich guy-targeted publisher Doubledown Media was doing: " Trader Monthly and similar publications do not need to worry 'until their readers give up their private planes.'" That happened! Alas, Doubledown Media has shut itself down. It ran out of money. Its bank cut...
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Hamilton Nolan
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May 07, 2008
Frivolous backstabbing egocentric money media war! The protagonists: Tim Sykes (pictured), who made a big name for himself as an under-30 hot shot hedge fund guy by starring in a reality show called Wall Street Warriors , and then proceeded to lose all his money and try to remake himself as a media ...
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