Larry is a Buzz Board insider

Larry Kramer is senior adviser at Polaris Venture Partners, a venture-capital firm. He served as the first president of CBS Digital Media. Prior to joining CBS, Kramer was chairman, CEO, and founder of MarketWatch Inc. Kramer spent more than 20 years as a reporter and editor at the San Francisco Examiner, the Washington Post, and the Times of Trenton.

Can Yahoo Save the News

Can Yahoo Save the News?

As newspapers continue to struggle, traditional news-aggregation sites like AOL and Yahoo are planning to produce m...

Posted 10:55 PM | Aug 30, 2009
The Media Can Profit from Twitters Big Week

The Media Can Profit from Twitter's Big Week

The micro-blogging service is leading the Iran election coverage and is even breaking big sports news. But its newfo...

Posted 7:56 PM | Jun 17, 2009
Why the AOL-Time Warner Merger Was a Good Idea

Why the AOL-Time Warner Merger Was a Good Idea

Time Warner's decision last week to spin off AOL marks the end of a spectacularly failed merger. One that, Larry Kram...

Posted 6:50 AM | May 4, 2009
The Upside of the Seattle Papers End

The Upside of the Seattle Paper's End

If Hearst is right, they will prove that an online local-news operation can be a good business. Even if they fail at...

Posted 2:32 PM | Mar 16, 2009