Edmund Lee
Edmund Lee is a writer in New York who covers media companies for Bloomberg News. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Conde Nast Portfolio, Advertising Age and elsewhere.
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Nicole Carty, 23, speaks during a meeting for participants of Zuccotti Park's Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York.
Campaign to Buy Los Angeles Times Hopes to Crowdfund $660 Million
Want to buy the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun and six other daily newspapers? No, I don’t mean at the newsstand. The Other 98%, a nonprofit organization, has setup a crowdfunding campaign to buy Tribune Co.’s newspaper business....
Read more »Time Warner Boss Wonders If Press Knows What They’re Talking About — Including His Own Reporters
If Time Warner Inc. CEO Jeffrey Bewkes isn’t aware of all the media he controls, give him a break. After all, he has a lot on his plate: CNN, HBO, Warner Bros. film studios, TNT, TBS, Cartoon Network … and...
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Donald Trump is the latest billionaire interested in owning the New York Times.
Why It’s Hard for Trump — or Anyone — to Buy the N.Y. Times
Ridicule of Donald Trump has become an almost daily occurrence. This week, the mockery came after he was revealed to be the latest billionaire interested in owning the New York Times. Again, and again, and again. New York Magazine’s Joe Hagan, who decided...
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Google is trying to sniff out reporters to participate in its journalism fellowship program.
Google to Fund — Wait for It — Journalism Fellowships
In discussions of the newspaper industry’s seemingly inevitable collapse, Google is probably most often cited as the reason why many people stopped paying for news. As the argument goes, why pay when you can find the information you need through...
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