First Look Media seems to be suffering from a severe case of management dysfunction, and that could be because the company seems to have built an elaborate corporate structure before it even had a viable product to show for it
The Intercept — a magazine that is part of Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media — has written a piece about the departure of Matt Taibbi, who was supposed to be running another of First Look’s magazines, and the glimpse inside the company is not a pretty one
A major new report from The Intercept has identified 5 respected individuals whose emails were targeted by the NSA and FBI. NSA leaker Edward Snowden said he leaked the list to enable targets to challenge the constitutionality of their surveillance.
John Cook, editor of First Look Media’s investigative news vehicle The Intercept, says the site is still trying to hire writers and editors and put an editorial structure together, and so there likely won’t be any new material that isn’t NSA related for some time
In its annual survey of the state of the U.S. media industry, the Pew Center says that there are signs of growth and investment in new digital entities, but the bulk of the traditional industry remains weak and continues to shrink as it struggles to reinvent itself
First Look Media, the new venture from eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, has launched The Intercept from Glenn Greenwald — the first of what it calls a family of “digital magazines.” But the company’s strategy is much smarter than that term makes it sound
Former NPR editor Andy Carvin says he is joining Pierre Omidyar’s new venture First Look Media because he wants to help create a new media entity that has social elements baked into it from the beginning, instead of just seeing them as an add on
It’s easy to get demoralized by all of the upheaval and chaos in the media sphere, but there are plenty of reasons for optimism about both media in general and journalism, and here are six of the ones I find most interesting.
eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture — on which he plans to spend as much as $250 million — is now known as First Look Media, and has an unusual two-pronged corporate structure that is both for-profit and non-profit
To survive, traditional news organizations need to figure out how to become real marketplaces of ideas, not just part of a metaphoric one. Ebay is not be a terrible model to riff on as they try to figure it out.
