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Salon.com
''Salon'' is an American politically progressive/liberal news and opinion website created in 1995. It publishes articles on U.S. politics, culture, and current events. Content and coverage ''Salon'' covers a variety of topics, including reviews and articles about books, films, and music; articles about "modern life", including friendships, human sexual behavior, and relationships; and reviews and articles about technology, with a particular focus on the free and open-source software (FOSS) movement. According to the senior contributing writer for the ''American Journalism Review'', Paul Farhi, ''Salon'' offers "provocative (if predictably liberal) political commentary and lots of sex." In 2008, ''Salon'' launched the interactive initiative ''Open Salon'', a social content site/blog network for its readers. Originally a curated site with some of its content being featured on ''Salon'', it fell into editorial neglect and was closed in March 2015. Responding to the question, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Salon
''Open Salon'' was a hybrid blogging platform and social network site started by the Salon Media Group, Inc. According to ''Salon'' Editor-in-Chief Joan Walsh "Open Salon gets rid of traditional gatekeepers, and makes our smart, creative audience full partners in ''Salons publishing future." After registering, users can start blogging immediately as well as rating and commenting on other posts. The Open Salon home page functions as a real-time magazine cover and is updated throughout the day. The best Open Salon content was featured on the cover of ''Salon.com ''Salon'' is an American politically progressive/ liberal news and opinion website created in 1995. It publishes articles on U.S. politics, culture, and current events. Content and coverage ''Salon'' covers a variety of topics, including re ...''. On May 29, 2009, Open Chats debuted--short, 5-minute interviews with OS contributors. Saturn Smith appeared in the first feature. Open Salon articles were frequently featu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mary Elizabeth Williams is an American writer and commentator. She is a staff writer for the online magazine ''Salon''. She has also written for ''The New York Times'', ''The Nation'', and other publications. As a commentator, she has made appearances on MSNBC, ''Today'', and ''NBC Nightly News''. In 2009, Williams released a memoir titled ''Gimme Shelter''. Personal life Mary Elizabeth Williams grew up in Jersey City, New Jersey. She has described herself as a practicing Catholic. In August 2010, Williams was diagnosed with malignant melanoma and underwent surgery. In August 2011, she was rediagnosed with stage IV melanoma. Later that year, she entered a stage I clinical trial for an experimental immunotherapy Immunotherapy or biological therapy is the treatment of disease by activating or suppressing the immune system. Immunotherapies designed to elicit or amplify an immune response are classified as ''activation immunotherapies,'' while immunotherap ... cancer drug, with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Talbot
David Talbot (born September 22, 1951) is an American journalist, author, activist and independent historian. Talbot is known for his books about the "hidden history" of U.S. power and the liberal movements to change America, as well as his public advocacy. He was also the founder and former editor-in-chief of the pioneering web magazine, ''Salon''. Talbot founded ''Salon'' in 1995. The magazine gained a large following and broke several major national stories. Since leaving ''Salon'', Talbot has researched and written on the Kennedy assassination and other areas of what he calls "hidden history." Talbot has worked as a senior editor for ''Mother Jones'' magazine and a features editor for ''The San Francisco Examiner'', and has written for ''Time'' magazine, ''The New Yorker'', ''Rolling Stone'', and other publications. In addition to his work as an independent historian, Talbot has been deeply engaged in political activism, especially in his hometown, San Francisco, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Walsh
Joan Maureen Walsh (born September 18, 1958) is a liberal American political pundit and journalist. Walsh is national affairs correspondent for ''The Nation,'' and was previously an on-air political analyst at CNN and MSNBC. She produced the 2020 documentary ''"The Sit In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show."'' She is a former editor-in-chief of ''Salon'' and author of the book ''What's the Matter with White People?'' Early life and education Walsh was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish Catholic family. In 1960, her family moved to Oceanside, Long Island. She has one brother and one sister. At the age of 13, her family moved to a northern suburb of Milwaukee where she attended high school. Her mother died when she was 17. Walsh is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, where she wrote for ''The Daily Cardinal''. Media career Print media When the online magazine ''Salon'' launched in 1998, Walsh became its first news editor. She was editor-in-chief from 2005 to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fox News
The Fox News Channel, abbreviated FNC, commonly known as Fox News, and stylized in all caps, is an American multinational conservative cable news television channel based in New York City. It is owned by Fox News Media, which itself is owned by the Fox Corporation. The channel broadcasts primarily from studios at 1211 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan. Fox News provides service to 86 countries and overseas territories worldwide, with international broadcasts featuring Fox Extra segments during ad breaks. The channel was created by Australian-American media mogul Rupert Murdoch in 1996 to appeal to a conservative audience, hiring former Republican media consultant and CNBC executive Roger Ailes as its founding CEO. It launched on October 7, 1996, to 17 million cable subscribers. Fox News grew during the late 1990s and 2000s to become the dominant United States cable news subscription network. , approximately 87,118,000 U.S. households (90.8% of television subscr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Liberalism In The United States
Modern liberalism in the United States, often simply referred to in the United States as liberalism, is a form of social liberalism found in American politics. It combines ideas of civil liberty and equality with support for social justice and a "checked-and-validated" market economy. Economically, modern liberalism opposes cuts to the social safety net and supports a role for government in reducing inequality, providing education, ensuring access to healthcare, regulating economic activity and protecting the natural environment. This form of liberalism took shape in the 20th century United States as the voting franchise and other civil rights were extended to a larger class of citizens. Major examples of modern liberal policy programs include the New Deal, the Fair Deal, the New Frontier, and the Great Society. In the first half of the 20th century, both major American parties had a conservative and a liberal wing. The conservative northern Republicans and Southern Democra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Miller (writer)
Laura Miller is an American journalist and critic based in New York City. She is a co-founder of Salon.com. Early life Miller was raised as a Catholic and grew up in California. She has since said she deplores the Church's "guilt-mongering and tedious rituals." Career In 1995, Miller helped to co-found the news website Salon.com, and in 2000 she edited ''The Salon.com Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors'' with Adam Begley. In 2008 she authored ''The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia'', a book about C.S. Lewis's ''The Chronicles of Narnia'' fantasy series, her enchantment with it as a child, and her disenchantment with it as an adult after realizing its heavy use of religious themes. In 2016, Miller edited '' Literary Wonderlands'', a literary encyclopedia chronicling the history of fiction. She is Slate's Books and Culture columnist. Reception Gary L. Tandy in ''Christianity and Literature'' called ''The Magician's book'' "Laura Miller's unique and in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Rosenberg (journalist)
Scott Rosenberg (born 1959 in Queens, New York is an American journalist, editor, blogger and non-fiction author. He was a co-founder of Salon Media Group and Salon.com and a relatively early participant in The WELL. Rosenberg's first book, '' Dreaming in Code'' appeared in 2007. It offers a detailed perspective on collaboration and massive software endeavors, particularly the open source calendar application Chandler (PIM). His writings at ''Salon.com'', ''The San Francisco Examiner'' and elsewhere have ranged from theatre and film criticism to technology reporting and political commentary. In 2009, he published a book on the history of blogging, ''Say Everything''. In 2010 Rosenberg foundeMediaBugs.org a "service for reporting specific, correctable errors and problems in media coverage." In an interview, he explains, "We'll try to alert the journalists or news organization involved about your report and bring them into a conversation," which may get the error corrected. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Observer
''The New York Observer'' was a weekly newspaper printed from 1987 to 2016, when it ceased print publication and became the online-only newspaper ''Observer''. The media site focuses on culture, real estate, media, politics and the entertainment and publishing industries. History The ''Observer'' was first published in New York City on September 22, 1987, as a weekly newspaper by Arthur L. Carter, a former investment banker. The ''New York Observer'' had also been the title of an earlier weekly religious paper founded by Sidney E. Morse in 1823. In July 2006, the paper was purchased by the American real estate figure Jared Kushner, then 25 years old. The paper began its life as a broadsheet, and was then printed in tabloid format every Wednesday, and currently has an exclusively online format. It is headquartered at 1 Whitehall Street in Manhattan. Previous writers for the publication include Kara Bloomgarden–Smoke, Kim Velsey, Matthew Kassel, Jillian Jorgensen, Joe Cona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kerry Lauerman
Kerry Lauerman is an American journalist. He has been the top editor at Mic and Salon, a senior editor at ''The Washington Post'' and ''Mother Jones'' and co-founder of the animal-focused site The Dodo. He is executive editor at ''Forbes ''Forbes'' () is an American business magazine owned by Integrated Whale Media Investments and the Forbes family. Published eight times a year, it features articles on finance, industry, investing, and marketing topics. ''Forbes'' also re ...''. References American journalists American newspaper editors The Washington Post people Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{US-journalist-20thC-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Google
Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" and one of the world's most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the area of artificial intelligence. Its parent company Alphabet is considered one of the Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14% of its publicly listed shares and control 56% of its stockholder voting power through super-voting stock. The company went public via an initial public offering (IPO) in 2004. In 2015, Google was reor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Gingras
Richard Gingras is an American Internet executive and entrepreneur who has focused on emerging digital media since 1979, including efforts at Google, Apple Computer, Salon Media Group and the Public Broadcasting Service. He has been an outspoken proponent for journalistic innovation on the Internet. Career Gingras is currently vice president of news at Google. In May 2018 he warned against building the future of news based on a misunderstanding of the past. He was a key instigator in creating the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project which is an open-source effort to improve the speed of the World Wide Web and improve advertising user experience. In late 2014, he co-founded the Trust Project with Sally Lehrman of the Markulla Center for Ethics at Santa Clara University. The Trust Project is a global effort of the journalism community to explore how the architecture of journalism can be enhanced to improve the perceived credibility of high-quality journalism. Until July 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
