Who Brought Down Twitter?
Nicholas Ciarelli is an assistant product manager at The Daily Beast.
Locked out for hours Thursday, the Twitter mob had plenty of time to ponder who was behind the denial-of-service attack on their site. Forget Russia-Georgia tensions-what about Las Vegas hackers or Ahmadinejad's henchmen?
Inside the Dead Girl's Wild Nightclub
Jeff Deeney is a social worker and freelance writer from Philadelphia. He previously wrote about his experience scoring OxyContin on Pill Hill for the Philadelphia City Paper
One month after rich suburban girl-turned-drug-trafficker Rian Thal was murdered in her luxury apartment building, Jeff Deeney goes inside Plush, the Philly hip-hop club where she was a rising star.
How MySpace Blew It
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
In 2005, Rupert Murdoch was hailed as a visionary for snapping up MySpace. Today, as Facebook and Twitter fuel a historic uprising, MySpace announced its second round of layoffs in a week. Lloyd Grove on what went wrong.
Murdoch's Secret Plan to Charge for Content
Stryker McGuire is an American journalist working in London. McGuire is a contributing editor at Newsweek magazine, where he was a correspondent, bureau chief and editor for 30 years; the founding editor of International Quarterly , and an associate at Lombard Street Research, an economics consultancy in the City of London.
The Daily Beast's Stryker McGuire has learned that News Corp. has tasked a global team-reporting directly to the 78-year-old media mogul-with creating a model to charge for online content.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
Christopher Buckley's books include Supreme Courtship, The White House Mess, Thank You for Smoking, Little Green Men, and Florence of Arabia. He was chief speechwriter for Vice President George H.W. Bush, and is editor-at-large of ForbesLife magazine. His new book is Losing Mum and Pup, a memoir. Buckley's Daily Beast column is the winner of an Online Journalism Award in the category of Online Commentary.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Jeffrey Koterba is an acclaimed syndicated political cartoonist. Since joining the Omaha World-Herald in 1989, he has been a finalist for Editorial Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society and has placed second in the National Headliner Awards. His work is distributed through King Features Syndicate to 400 newspapers nationwide, and has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post, among others.
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