Late last night, a lawyer named Ethan Kirschner, claiming to represent Dorian Satoshi Nakamoto, emailed a statement to several members of the media, including Reuters' Felix Salmon. In it, Nakamoto denies that he is, in fact, the "Satoshi Nakamoto" commonly credited with "inventing" Bitcoin. Here's what he says, in full:
An LA Times reporter was fired for an inappropriate relationship with a source and three stories about sexual assault at Occidental College had to be corrected after the paper discovered a major error.
A U.K. newspaper has issued an important correction about the fate of humanity in the 21st century: It's not going to be faced with a catastrophic war against goats.
Bestselling author and political gadfly Joe McGinniss died today after a year-long battle against inoperable prostate cancer. He was 71.
On the positive side, this means 10 out of 10 Americans think contact with HTML will prevent you from ever getting laid again.
Last year, the Marine Corps Times reported that the Department of Defense was investigating Marine Corps Commandant General Jim Amos and four of his aides for allegedly manipulating the military’s legal system and promotion process. Amos couldn’t stop the independently-owned Times from doing its job, so he tried the next best thing: Completely banning its sale from all Marine Corps bases.
A Knoxville, Tennessee news crew was covering the near-fatal stabbing of a 61-year-old woman at an apartment complex Tuesday morning when the victim's apparently disturbed daughter approached them and confessed to the crime, with the camera rolling.
You’ve probably read BuzzFeed’s long profile of Donald Trump, in which political reporter McKay Coppins explains the absurdity of the businessman’s political aspirations and the “yes-men” who enable them (one of whom Trump quickly fired). Even if you haven’t read it, the editors of Breitbart.com sure have.
Yesterday, Business Insider chief correspondent Nicholas Carlson stuck a subtle shiv into his competitors at Buzzfeed, attributing the site's success in exploiting Facebook's ever-evolving newsfeed algorithm to its practice of buying traffic in the form of Facebook ads—as opposed to, you know, attracting readers. Then he took it out. Without telling anyone.
Papers and pundits screamed it today, in massive headlines. The conservatives cackled it. "OBAMACARE WILL MEAN 2 MILLION FEWER FULL-TIME WORKERS." It was bullshit, born of the media's oversimplification and the right wing's malicious stupidity. The truth is good news.
Journalists in China are having a hard time staying there — writers for the New York Times and Bloomberg have faced multiple visa problems after publishing critical stories. Another Times reporter was forced out today, prompting an article documenting recent "signs of official displeasure with the newspaper."
NY1 reporter Mike Scotto had the audacity to refer to New York Rep. Michael Grimm's recent campaign finance issues during an interview tonight, and Grimm was not happy. So not happy that he threatened to throw Scotto over the balcony and told him, "I will break you in half" — all on-camera.
The Associated Press announced Wednesday that it had parted ways with Narciso Contreras, a freelance photographer who shared in a Pulitzer for his work in Syria last year. The reason Contreras was let go, basically, is that he tried too hard to meet a phony news-photo standard.
Now we know why tweeting cancer chronicler Lisa Bonchek Adams was so blindsided by the critical columns ex-New York Times editor Bill Keller and his wife, Emma, wrote about her last week: The duo approached Adams as a friend and offered her lodgings during her treatment in New York.
Andrew Meyer caught viral fame in 2007 when, as a University of Florida student journalist, he tried to question then-Sen. John Kerry at an event and ended up tased by campus cops, despite his dudely entreaties for them not to do it. Guess what? Now he's on the press freedom beat!
