Campaign Spotlight: Creating ‘Youphoria’ the Nordstrom Way

The conservative retailer is intensifying its efforts to woo younger customers by offering “new, of the moment” online brands.

    

Comedy Central to Host Comedy Festival on Twitter

Comedy Central will use Twitter to host a comedy festival. The partnership between the two companies represents the evolving relationship between television and social media.

    

Brown University Student Mistaken for Bombing Suspect

A missing Brown University philosophy student was mistakenly thought to be one of the men sought in the Boston Marathon bombings.

    

Media Become Part of Story in Boston Manhunt

Reporters found themselves in a complex relationship with the authorities, being thanked and chastised at the same time.

    

Dove Ad on Women’s Self-Image Creates an Online Sensation

A video focusing on Dove’s findings that only 4 percent of women consider themselves beautiful has been viewed more than seven million times on YouTube.

    

New Twitter Service Hopes to Capture Musical Trends

Twitter’s idea is to recommend songs based on personal contacts as well as on what is popular among the 200 million Twitter audience.

    

News Media Weigh Use of Photos of Carnage

Pictures of the aftermath of the bombings at the Boston Marathon started a debate among news organizations about when images are too horrifying to display.

    

Campaign Spotlight: In These Ads, ‘Someday’ Is More Than a Wish

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society adopts the tactics of consumer marketing to help raise money and public awareness.

    

Undercover BBC Trip to North Korea Is Criticized

Reporters who joined students from the London School of Economics on the sight-seeing trip did not disclose their true purpose and filmed an undercover documentary, the university said.

    

The Media Equation: More Cracks In TV’s Business Model

Television has thrived on bundling, which offers a way of protecting things but also tends to obscure the weaknesses within. Now those flaws are becoming more apparent.

    

Advertising: Nike, Once Cutting Edge, Seeks to Regain Its Brand Aura

The company has recently had a hard time standing out amid the clutter, bringing out fewer ads that are widely deemed cool.

    

Clues Emerge About Twitter’s Music Feature

The service’s music feature is still hidden from the public, but it appears to be a way to learn what music is becoming popular.

    

Advertising: Bieber Promotes a Debit Card With High Fees

In new videos for the SpendSmart Payments Company, which offers a prepaid debit card for teenagers, Justin Bieber talks about his modest upbringing.

    

Tumblr to End Storyboard

The popular social blogging site said that it would shut the multimedia news blog that it had created to report on its own community and dismiss a skeletal staff of three.

    

Media Decoder Blog: G.M. Returns to Facebook for a Test, for Now

General Motors, which made headlines in May 2012 when it stopped running paid advertising on Facebook, said on Tuesday that it had begun a test program of paid ads on facebook.com aimed at consumers who check Facebook on their mobile devices.

    

Campaign Spotlight: There’s No Place Like a New Home, Ads Assert

A new campaign sponsored by a group of home builders touts the myriad benefits to consumers of making their next “new home” one that is completely new.

    

The Media Equation: Roger Ebert’s Legacy as a Relentless Empire-Builder

A big part of what Roger Ebert left behind was a remarkable template for how a lone journalist can become something much more.

An Appraisal: An Appraisal of Roger Ebert

Roger Ebert cared deeply about the human emotions and aspirations that movies represented, and was happy to share those feelings with just about anybody.

Roger Ebert, Movie Critic of the Mainstream, Dies at 70

Roger Ebert, the popular film critic and television co-host, could lift or sink the fortunes of a movie along with his partner, Gene Siskel.

Cleveland Paper to Curtail Delivery and Cut Staff

The Plain Dealer, owned by Advance Publications, will trim home delivery to three days a week and lay off 53 newsroom employees.