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Jim Brady, executive editor of washingtonpost.com, decided Thursday to temporarily take down a blog popular with readers after hundreds of hateful comments, profanities and personal attacks directed at Ombudsman Deborah Howell inundated the blog, reports Editor & Publisher (via MarketingVOX). The Post staff was apparently unable to keep up with having to sift through the torrent of comments. In a controversial column on Sunday, she stated (incorrectly) that notorious lobbyist Jack Abramoff had given money to Democrats, too, not just Republicans.
“We got about 1,000 posts and at least 150 to 200 were using…profanity, hate speech or personal attacks,” Brady said.
The blog, post.blog, is one of two dozen for Post readers and was launched in November to allow comments on Post-related issues. Brady said the blog would be back and speculated a better filter might block profanity or anonymous comments.
Clear Channel Radio will keep pres and CEO John Hogan on for at least five more years, and has promoted four members of its senior management team.
On the ops side, Mark Kopelman and George Toulas have been promoted to…
Sports Illustrated has created an online auction, powered by eBay, to sell some of its inventory across print, digital and events media in order to give the sales force more time to sell more effectively.
Parent company Time Inc. hopes…
Today, FreeRange launched its Mobile Publishing Platform, which boasts clients like PaidContent, Fierce Markets and The Wall Street Journal Digital Network.
The platform serves mobile coverage and branded content across BlackBerry, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Palm devices, writes MarketingVOX.
Content is…
ABC may have a tough time keeping its No. 1 slot in the upcoming fall season. Fox, which has handily beat the competition in recent years in the later part of the season thanks in large part to hits like…
Advertisers will spend $505 million on online video advertising in 2008, according to a downward-revised projection by eMarketer, which said the significant drop was “due to changes in methodology, based on historical data from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), eMarketer’s benchmark…
Young Hispanics want social media that’s delivered in a bilingual environment, says Boston-based social media company Communispace.
The company reached that conclusion via a study of 1,000 consumers that looked at how Hispanic consumers participate in web-based forums. The study…
