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The New York Civil Liberties Union is suing the New York City Police Department for not disclosing its policy on issuing press passes to reporters.
Several local online reporters, who claim the police took away their press passes due to negative coverage of local government and police, are involved in the suit.
Kevin Ryan has thrived as a businessman in New York by taking advantage of the ad, Internet, luxury, financial and music industries. Since leaving his post as CEO of DoubleClick, he has continued his success as CEO of AlleyCorp, which holds six online companies including Gilt Groupe, Silicon Alley Insider, ClusterStock, Music Nation, Panther Express and ShopWiki.
AlleyCorp is estimated to generate $50 million in revenue this year.
When Win Hornig lost his job in the midst of the Bear Sterns collapse, he started a blog in hopes of capitalizing on the opportunity. Banker Gone Broke reports on the continuing financial meltdown.
In honor of Halloween, Hornig is holding a costume contest online for the best financial crisis inspired costume.
Nick Denton, publisher of Gawker Media, will be stepping down as Gawker's managing editor soon and as The Insider noted, has been hinting at additional staffing changes at Gawker Media's other blogs. New staff members are likely to be hired for the company's highly-trafficked Web sites Gizmodo and Kotaku while other, less visited properties might see layoffs. However, given Denton's penchant for switching staff between properties, such as moving Jezebel blogger Moe Tkacik over to Gawker earlier this year, some staff might find themselves writing about topics with which they're far less familiar.
Gawker is due to break site traffic records again this month with 23 million page views. Its traffic has increased three-fold since last December when Denton returned to its helm.
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Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn has posted up photos of 'The Lights'.
Publicists for the fashion industry have been paying more attention to bloggers this year, vetting the bloggers' writing and approving more of them for admittance to upcoming runway shows and outside events than in past years.
Hyperlocal reporting or placeblogging is gaining ground in the New York tristate area, according to the New York Times. Bloggers in suburban New Jersey, New York and Connecticut are reporting on the things happening in their neighborhoods to an increasingly growing and engaged audience.
For some, like The Loop, a blog founded last year for Westchester outside of the City, the site came out of necessesity due to a lack of local newspaper coverage in the area.
Other popular local blogs include:
- Baristanet.com (Montclaire, NJ. Founded in 2004. Now has 82,000 monthly visitors, which equates to $10,000 monthly profits from advertising.)
- Red Bank Green (Red Bank, NJ. Founded in 2006 by former Star-Ledger reporter. Has 45,000 monthly visitors.)
- Hoboken411 (Hoboken, NJ. Founded in 2006. Has more than 250,000 monthly visitors.)
- WestportNow (Westport, CT. Founded in 2003. Has 40,000 monthly visitors.)
- NewHavenIndependent (New Haven, CT. Founded in 2005.)
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Mashable brought its SummerMash to NYC's Touch last night, the final stop on the SummerMash national tour. An estimated crowd of 600 attended to hear presentatiions from sponsors Sun Startup Essentials, Yoono, mySites, MoneyStrands, Kickapps, ffwd, and "special friends" Social Radi.us and Stickam.
Meanwhile, over at The Slipper Room on the Lower East Side, Lux Alptraum, Richard Blakleley, and members of NYC's online media community, including Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton, celebrated the one-year anniversary of Boinkology, a blog focusing on sex, dating, and "everything in between". For photos of the event, you can visit: Brian Van's Flickr or Nick McGlynn's Random Night Out.
In response to The Los Angeles Times' recent e-mail touting the 127 million page views its web properties received in July, Gawker Media publisher Nick Denton published his properties' page views, a record 254 million.
The Insider adds that Gawker managed this record with its staff of only 80 as compared to The Times' 700.
Village Voice Media (VVM), which acquired New York City's Village Voice, is in the process of launching four new blogs on various topics. All four are not directly involved with the local NYC paper.
They include:
Rumors are also out about an upcoming "True Crime Blog."
