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Mathew Ingram Nov 26, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

First Look Media has forgotten the number one rule of startups

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…

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Media
Mathew Ingram Oct 30, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

First Look finds the hard part isn’t the journalism, it’s reinventing how a newsroom works

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…

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Media
David Meyer Jul 9, 2014 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog Post

Prominent Muslim-Americans came under NSA and FBI surveillance, report claims

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.…

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Technology, Work & Collaboration
Mathew Ingram Apr 14, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

If you want more news from First Look Media’s The Intercept, you’re going to have to wait

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…

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Technology
Mathew Ingram Mar 25, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

State of the media: Not out of the woods by any means, but some reasons for cautious optimism

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…

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Technology
Mathew Ingram Feb 10, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

The term “digital magazines” may sound kind of dumb, but First Look Media’s approach is not

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…

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Media, Technology, Video
Mathew Ingram Feb 4, 2014 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Andy Carvin, a pioneer in using Twitter for real-time journalism, joins Omidyar’s First Look Media

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…

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Media, Technology, Video
Mathew Ingram Dec 31, 2013 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

The six most interesting things that happened in media this year, according to me

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.…

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Media, Technology, Video
Mathew Ingram Dec 19, 2013 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture now has a name, $50M in funding and an interesting corporate structure

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…

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Media, Technology, Video
Paul Sweeting Oct 21, 2013 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog

EBay and the marketplace of ideas

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.…

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Consumer
Laura Owen Oct 17, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

What we know (and don’t) about eBay founder Pierre Omidyar’s ambitious new media startup

What we know -- and what we don't know -- about Pierre Omidyar's new media venture, which already has Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras and Jeremy Scahill on board.…

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Media, Technology
Laura Owen Oct 15, 2013 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Updated: Glenn Greenwald’s new media venture funded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar

Glenn Greenwald is leaving the Guardian for a new media venture he euphorically described as a "once-in-a-career dream journalistic opportunity." That venture is backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.…

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Media, Technology
Paul Sweeting Dec 14, 2011 (Jun 11, 2020) -- Blog

Today in Connected Consumer

With one day to go before the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, the…

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Consumer
Laura Owen Aug 3, 2011 (Jun 9, 2020) -- Blog Post

Updated: Honolulu Star-Advertiser Latest Paper To Add Paywall

The announcement is accompanied by a picture of publisher Dennis Francis wearing a Hawaiian shirt, but the news is all business: Honolulu S……

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Media, Mobile
Janko Roettgers Jul 1, 2010 (Jun 8, 2020) -- Blog Post

Omidyar Network: $500,000 for Web TV in Kenya

Pieree Omidyar's philantrophic investment company has given $500,000 to a Kenya-based TV show called the XYZ Show as part of its latest round of technology investments. The grant is supposed to help XYZ to expand its mobile and online offerings and fund its next season.…

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Media, Video
Staci D. Kramer Apr 21, 2010 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Risky Business: Omidyar’s Hawaiian News Startup Civil Beat Comes With Steep Price Tag

It sounds as idyllic as the scenery: an online civic square launching May 4 where Hawaiians can, as founder Pierre Omdiyar explains, "learn……

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Media
Joseph Tartakoff Jan 21, 2010 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Omidyar Picks Former ‘Rocky’ Publisher Temple To Lead Local News Site

eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) founder Pierre Omidyar has made a high-profile hire for the local news service he is launching in Hawaii. Omidyar has hire……

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Media
Robert Andrews Jun 20, 2008 (Jun 10, 2020) -- Blog Post

Seesmic Gets $6 Million Second Round, Plans Mobile Features

This just in: Loic Le Meur's video blog commenting platform Seesmic has raised $6 million in second-round financing from eBay (NSDQ: EBAY) f……

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Media, Video
Larry Chiang Jan 8, 2008 (Jun 5, 2020) -- Blog Post

9 VCs You're Gonna Want to Avoid

Editor’s Note: Fundraising is tough. So more and more of you bootstrap as long as you can. But once you get close…

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Technology

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