Journalists Crave That Touch of Link

(NEWSER) - In the battle for the blogosphere, left-leaning sites are clobbering their conservative counterparts, thanks mostly to the Huffington Post, David Kaplan writes for paidContent. Liberal sites attracted 6.4 million unique visitors in April, to 4.8 million for conservative sites. Of those, 5.6 million were Huffington Post hits, trouncing the second-place Drudge Report’s 1.7 million. More»

As senator looks to her left, conservative bedfellows are bailing

(NEWSER) - The conservative press, once a surprising ally for Hillary Clinton, is turning out to be about as loyal as the Democratic senator should have expected, Politico writes. Though long reviled by the far-right masses, Clinton once had the carefully cultivated respect of some rightish media players like Rupert Murdoch and Matt Drudge. But now even those unlikely supporters are turning from her. More»

Gawker, Huffington Post, Perez Hilton in the top 10

(USER SUBMITTED) - 24/7 Wall St. is out with its fourth annual ranking of the 25 most valuable blogs in America, with the caveat that valuation is as much an art as it is a science. A number of blogs have increased in value since last year, not only because they have improved their readership, but also because the economic conditions have encouraged healthier advertising revenue. The top five are: 1. Gawker Properties: $240 million; 2, Huffington Post: $150 million; 3, Drudge Report: $50 million; 4, PopSugar: $40 million; 5, MacRumors: $37 million. More»

(NEWSER) - "Mouthpiece Theater" is no more. The Washington Post today killed the video-spoof series hosted by political reporters Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza after they drew flak for suggesting that Hillary Clinton drink "Mad Bitch" beer. The reporters offered separate apologies and promised to stick to their strengths—print. "I regret that we put up that image," Milbank said, "and while I highly doubt the secretary of state has seen 'Mouthpiece Theater,' I would be honored to have the opportunity to apologize to her over a beer." More»

The 'supposedly revolutionary über-blog' wears no clothes: Dumenco

(NEWSER) - Syracuse University’s SI Newhouse journalism school recently awarded Arianna Huffington one of their lifetime achievement awards, an honor that strikes Simon Dumenco as absurd, he writes for Advertising Age. It sounds like a brutally ironic joke: a school for training journalists honors someone who’s built a popular website on devaluing their work. More»