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When Keith Blanchard, Wenner Media's executive director for online media, including Us Weekly, Rolling Stone, and Men's Journal, asked our journalism class how many people visit Rolling Stone's website, only one person raised his hand.

Not even the online media world is safe anymore. TeenPeople.com will fold at the end of April, only one year after the print magazine folded. They don’t exactly admit having a small audience, but they don’t say they were doing well either.

US News & World Report’s Michael Barone is not only a conservative writer and author but also a blogger. Barone Blog has graced US News’ website since August 2005.

Friday, Wired's TV Is Dead. Long Live the TV celebrated eighty years of TV, with an article devoted to TV's latest evolution and incredible staying power.

Reading Pete Bethune's blog is like reading Kon-Tiki, except with all the spelling errors you've come to expect from the internet.

In an effort to appeal more to the user-generating online audience, NBC has announced a plan to post video content from their popular shows on NBC.com.

Blogger Mark Evans writes about why newspaper blogs just don't work ... I'm not sure that I agree.

MTV just won’t die. They’re back with a new plan. Instead of taking my advice and, you know, actually showing us music videos, they created the Thursday Night Block.

Are you a fan of Avril Lavigne? Did you know she now comes in different languages? In attempts to reach a wider audience, Avril Lavigne’s new single “Girlfriend” will be available with choruses in eight languages.

Brian Williams, award-winning anchor and managing editor of the "NBC Nightly News," spoke to a group of NYU journalism students on Wednesday about the role the explosion of online media has played in traditional media.

I think everyone can agree that the news media is losing viewers, listeners, and readers. Yes? Yes.

“The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,” the Rolling Stones rocker, Keith Ricards, was quoted saying.

So, we've discussed whether Amanda Congdon is a journalist or not, but what about this ?

The jailed blogger is out. Hooray. After spending 226 days in jail, Josh Wolf has released the "controversial" videotape on his blog.

Reporter Steve Volk said Tierney slighted him for 126 days in the recent issue of Philadelphia Weekly. Tierney, who recently fired 50 members the Inky’s newsroom, is rumored to be making overtures to PW.

While most news organizations took a favorable angle on Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove’s improvised rap skit at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner last month, Time Magazine’s political blogger Ana Marie Cox would have none of it.

Sometimes I feel like people look at college students as if we were science experiments: un-measurable and mysterious creatures of youth.

Hey, J-School kid! Put down the Starbucks, pick up that scotch, light that cigarette and get back to work...or don't if you want to stay employed.

Sam Sifton, culture editor at the New York Times, says that becoming an effective critic takes experience and the backing of a reputable institution.

So, there's wild speculation that EMI and Apple Computers may break bread and bring the Beatles catalogue online tomorrow. Of course, that's the day after today.