The Internet’s Verbal Contrarian

The writer Evgeny Morozov has quickly become the most prominent critic of the utopian promises coming from Silicon Valley.

    



How Laura Poitras Helped Snowden Spill His Secrets

It all started with her own fight against surveillance.

    



A Gossip Site Finds Its Niche

Mediatakeout.com, a celebrity gossip Web site, moves up in the ranks as its staff hunt down scoops.

    

The New Math of Media Deals

The sales of three giants of the old-media world — The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and Newsweek — in as many days suggest one kind of change, but their prices suggest another.

    

Bezos Brings Promise of Innovation to Washington Post

It would not be surprising to see Jeff Bezos worry little about turning a quick profit at The Post and instead try to shake up the newspaper industry.

    

Boy, 15, Quits Board Tied to Booker Start-Up

Andrew Zucker, the son of Jeff Zucker, president of CNN, resigned from a board that advises the Newark mayor’s Internet venture.

    

Axel Springer’s New Focus on Digital Draws Cries of Betrayal

The German publisher’s sale of two regional newspapers and several magazines shocked Germans despite the company’s vow to stay in journalism.

    

U.S. Denounces Vietnam’s New Limits on Dissent on Internet

A new Vietnamese decree appears to limit the ability of people to share news stories critical of the government.

    

Comcast and CBS Post Strong Results, Aided by Web

Comcast surpassed analysts’ earnings projections while CBS Corporation reported its highest quarterly profits ever.

    

Comcast Profit Jumps 28.6% on Growth of Broadband

Comcast’s second-quarter earnings rose to $1.7 billion, exceeding analysts’ estimates, helped by the continued growth of the company’s broadband Internet and business products.

    

Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear?

When the Sunil Tripathi rumor went viral after the Boston Marathon bombing, it laid bare the dysfunctional codependence between new and old media.

    

Two Ad Giants Chasing Google in Merger Deal

The merger of Omnicom and Publicis signals that advertising is now firmly in the business of collecting and selling the personal information of millions of consumers.

    

Link by Link: Historians Seek a Delay in Posting Dissertations

The American Historical Association caused a stir by asking universities to allow new Ph.D’s to keep their dissertations from being circulated online for up to six years.

    

Advertising: Air Force Asks Students to Solve Real-World Problems

People will be challenged to develop technologies for search-and-rescue operations, create software code for an unmanned aerial vehicle and to help start the newest GPS satellite.

    

Media Decoder: Tooth Fairy Site Angers Anti-Commercialism Group

The Real Tooth Fairies site raised the ire of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood for commercializing a rite of passage.

    

The Media Equation: TV Foresees Its Future. Netflix Is There.

Netflix has given a good shaking to the settled world of television: it has provided its own series, streamed them over the Internet and made them available all at once everywhere.

    

Nonpartisan Fact-Checking Comes to South Africa

A fledging Web site seeks to offer South Africa the kind of journalistic fact-checking that is a fixture in America with sites like FactCheck.org.

    

F.C.C. Backs Plan to Update a Fund That Helps Connect Schools to the Internet

The Federal Communications Commission wants to fix E-Rate, a program to give schools telecommunications services, which has been criticized for not keeping up with modern technology.

    

A Secret Food Satirist Comes Out of the Pantry

The identity of @ruthbourdain, a Twitter avatar created to poke fun at the pretensions of the culinary elite, is revealed.

    

Regulator in France Raids Office of Apple

Authorities reportedly want to know if Apple ordered its wholesalers not to deliver some products on time to retailers.