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When the Princeton Review met Facebook
Grockit marries social media with standardized test prep. Despite the controversy surrounding standardized tests for college admissions (Are they fair? What do they measure?), exams like the SAT and...
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Government shutdown puts Google-ITA deal on fast track? (Update: Approved)
The Google-ITA merger is now on a fast track approval process and we could see an announcement as early as today. Update: The merger has been approved with significant stipulations including licensing...
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Apple gives the Gray Lady the cold shoulder
A lesson in access journalism in the wake of the New York Times' Foxconn series "An Apple spokesman said no executives were available to comment." That sentence, appearing 12 paragraphs into a 14-graph...
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Unlike most newspaper owners, Bezos might actually invest in journalism
Jeff Bezos has proven himself to be a long-term strategist. That's just what the newspaper industry needs right now. FORTUNE -- For anyone who cares about the public-service function of journalism,...
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In defense of Amazon
The man who wrote the first good book about Apple sings the praises of Jeff Bezos. FORTUNE -- The news Monday that the Washington Post has been purchased by Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon...
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About Jeff Bezos's 10,000 year clock ...
The Amazon founder is building a clock that will last for 1,000 decades. Wait, what? By Anne VanderMey, reporter FORTUNE -- As any Amazon (AMZN) investor will tell you, Jeff Bezos believes in long-term...
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Can social media fix the Washington Post? 5 hacks for Jeff Bezos
Jeff Bezos doesn't have an easy task in righting the Washington Post. Here are few good places to start. By Ryan Holmes FORTUNE -- It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded...
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The Washington Post could do worse than emulating Woolworth
A glib statement from incoming Post owner Jeff Bezos demands scrutiny. The last thing the Post should do is to mindlessly chase the youth demo. FORTUNE -- "All businesses need to be young forever,"...
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Rise of The Washington Post (Fortune, 1944)
Editor’s note:Every Sunday Fortune publishes a favorite story fromitsmagazine archives. This week, we turn to a 1944 feature on the evolution ofThe Washington Post, D.C.’s gold-standard news source for...
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Sponsored content is the holy grail of digital publishing. But does it work?
In recent years, a debate has raged onamong publishing and advertising industry insiders over “sponsored content”more recentlycalled“native advertising” and onceknown as “advertorial”the sort of...
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CEOs Read: Don Graham on his favorite books
Words are woven into Don Grahams bloodline. He’s the CEO of Graham Holdings, which today owns test prep and online education company Kaplan. But his company and his family are best known for their...
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Was the power shift to individual media brands just a mirage?
It may have been a relatively small deal in monetary terms, but the ripples from Re/code’s acquisition by Vox Media earlier this week continue to spread through the media-sphere. One recurring theme is...
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And the first major news outfit to roll out default encryption is…
On Tuesday the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post became the first sizable news organization to start rolling out automatic encryption across parts of its website, the Post reports. The technology...
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Here’s why the Sulzberger family should sell the New York Times
New York magazine had a long, in-depth piece recently about the race for the publisher’s seat at the New York Times, a race that consists solely of people whose last name is Sulzberger, or who are...
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The Bezos effect kicks in: WaPo now bundled with Amazon Prime
Ever since Amazon AMZN founder and CEO Jeff Bezos acquired the Washington Post from the Graham family for $250 million in 2013, media watchers have been waiting for signs of synergies between the...
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The Washington Post will publish all its stories on Facebook’s Instant Articles
Four months after it first unveiled its native news article product, starting with nine partner publishers, Facebook told Re/Code on Tuesday that the Washington Post has come onboard. As part of the...
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The Washington Post and Facebook: Smart strategy or deal with the devil?
Facebook rolled out an expansion of its Instant Articles project on Tuesday -- that’s the mobile-focused offering it launched earlier this year, which offers faster-loading pages to media companies who...
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Can Politico save political journalism, not just in the U.S. but in Europe too?
Ever since the web started disrupting both journalism and the advertising industry that funds it, there has been concern about what happens to the kind of hard-nosed political reporting that doesn’t...
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German media giant Axel Springer buys control of Business Insider for $343...
Anyone interested in the evolution of media now has a new benchmark when it comes to industry disruption and fluctuating valuations: Business Insider, a site that is only eight years old, has been...
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Henry Blodget talks about why he sold Business Insider
German media giant Axel Springer is acquiring a controlling stake in media startup Business Insider for $343 million, which values the New York-based company at about $450 million. You can read more...
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