part of it is when aol screws up and aol is pretty good at that.publication of record, calls aol out. that was part of the deal. so to my mind that's a continuation of that. if we are not able to do it then editorial independence means nothing. >> you used the phrase in writing about people who leave under these circumstances stunt resignation. is that what you have just done? >> mm-hmm. >> well, yes, insofar as if it wasn't i could have written a nice polite letter to eric. >> you could have quietly gone into the shadows but you chose not to. >> i chose not to do it. it's kind of my value-added tech crunch being the noisy one. frankly people would have assumed i would be hushed up had i quietly gone into the sun set. i have always been loud and it would have been weird had i left quietly. i use the phrase about myself, too. i'm willing to acknowledge i ticked on all the stunt resignation boxes. >> most journalists would say it is a serious conflict for the founder of a website that covers technology to at the same time be putting his own money and

aol bought the huffington opposed. in the middle east, we saw how citizen journalists are reporting on the uprisings, and in papers like the "san francisco chronicle" are finding ways to collaborate with groups like spj's journalist of the year in northern california. his last three of this year's winners were new or nonprofit media, a ratio that would have been unthinkable just a decade ago when newspapers and large tv stations dominated the news media. to be sure, most of the hard work is still ahead of us. few new start-ups turn a profit. many community newsrooms' still rely on volunteer labor, and broader economic issues. we want to encourage the members of our audience here at the public library to drive this discussion. this is your chance to ask these experts what is happening to the news that you depend on to make your day to day decisions. our conversation tonight will include five elements -- we will talk about the quality of reporting available to the public and move on to what is being done to create sustai

word of a possible yahoo-aol merger. for those stories and more let's go live to emily chang from bloomberg west. emily? >> that is right. sources telling us aol is in talks about potentially combining two companies. here is how it could work. yahoo buys aol and the current ceo becomes the ceo of the combined entity. as reported armstrong was considered in yahoo last year but got shut down when carol barts was at the helm. now, he's back at it. job creation continues to be a central theme in washington and elsewhere. and the ceo of linkedn gave us perspective on how washington should tackle the nation's unemployment rate. and there is one possible slus slus, -- solution, he says is with new technology. >> so we can map digitally map and make searchable every available job. there are 3.2 million jobs available in this country. everyone of the jobs can with made searchable. >> and he maded the nation needs to keep top talent in the country. now let's take a look at this dow lost 300 points and s and p and nasdaq dropped ab

. >> michael arrington is the founder of tech crunch, the popular site that was later bought by aol.h crunch five years ago. and i'm not a trained journalist. i'm a trained lawyer and entrepreneur. >> long ago he announced he would be investing in tech companies covered by his site but that was okay because -- well, i never got why it wasn't a blatant conflict of interest. this week aol that merged with the huffington post said arrington would write for techcrunch while launching a capital called the crunch fund. really? aol chief executive said "we have a traditional understanding of journalism with the exception of techcrunch." the folks who work at techcrunch werer furious. here's what they said. what armstrong doesn't understand, because he's not a journalist in this game perception is everything. for techcrunch to have the moral standing to call out a company it is vital our own

aol not only said okay, it invested money in the fund and that raised a lot of questions.ou can't both report on a company and invest in the company. that wouldn't make sense. huffington came in, clearly in charge, shut everyone down, i should point out we have or i have a relationship with tech crunch and one of the reporters sarah lacy works on our press here show so there is a business relationship there. >> no relation to everything else. >> no relation to everything else. any time i'm involved in a business relationship i want to make sure that's clear. >> you're up on the up and up. >> i try to be. >> in the know as well. 5:26 now. >> that's right. he is our guru. still to come, a new b.a.r.t. protest to warn you about this morning. we'll have the details next. >> reporter: i'm bob redell. we'll tell you why several tech firms here in san francisco have all of a sudden then told to pack up and leave. that story coming up. >> and the mini heat wave has concluded. much cooler weather today. we have dense fog out there. we'll show you where, better air quality except fo

now she is gone, that prompted aol to come back and try again. >> it has been consistent through theeconomy is time for cheating. they report that a dating service recession proof business the site is in arizona and nevada where the housing market has been hit by the hardest by the recession. no word on california. >>> thanks so much. >>> some san diego beaches are still closed this morning because of last week's massive power outage. about 2 million gallons of raw sewage spilled into a a lot la goon that empties south of del mar. they are warning people to stay out of the water. one lifeguard says she amazed that people want to get in anyway. beaches will stay closed until water is free of contaminants that could take several more days. that is the latest problem there. the surf earlier. >> it's pretty quiet. we do have flight arrival delays of sfo about 75 minutes because of clouds. low clouds dominating, mid and upper level clouds, low clouds as we look east from vollmer peak this morning. beautiful sunrise and sun is creeping up the north side of mount diablo there. when it does

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in some way and with ail -- aol in another way. you need the types of connections with more established or at least larger players in order to survive. the other reason is that the proliferation of sites has caused a change in the way people get their news. no longer do they just go to what we call destination sites, which was essentially a newspaper online. they are getting their news on facebook and google and bing and search engines. to be out there in that news sphere, you have to have different ways of attacking a and having connections and distribution arrangements. >> i would like to add that proliferation of new sites creates more demand for content, which creates more opportunity for professional writers. before you think about going into news as a business as an independent publisher, you have to think about what the need is, if there is a need in that particular space for another site, and then how you distinguish yourself and the content you provide. i wanted to go back to the question about the funding investments in j

we just learned that an american citizen linked to aol qaeda has been killed. an official statement says anmar alawaki is dead believed to be killed by an air strike attack that was carried out by u.s. forces. he is believed to have spotted and plotted the recent attacks in the u.s. including the failed christmas day bombing in 2009. more on these stories when it becomes available. >>> if you use the atm card at a store checkout a year from now, think twice about it because it could be costing you a bit more. bank of america will start charging customers five dollars every time you swipe. and we have more on everything you need to know on the new fees. >> if you use your bank of america atm card to just get cash, you won't see new fees. but starting in january, the nation's largest bank will begin charging customers $5 in any month when they make at least one purchase with the debit card. bank of america has about 57 million customers. and 20,000 atms. the big bank announced it will add the new fee which will cost customers $60 a year. the new fee is expected t

he is editor-in-chief of patch.com, a division of aol that provides news to specific communities. very local. after him, we have the managing director for local news at yahoo.com, guiding the company's local coverage nationwide. last but not least is the senator who represents san francisco and san mateo counties, and he is the recipient of spj's freedom of information award in 2010. that is our panel. back to you, rose. >> before we start, i want to get a sense of who we have in the audience. how many of you currently work in the media? lots. how many of you used to work in the media? how many of you want to work in the media? ok, good. that will give us a sense of who we are talking with. great. every friday, we have a media roundtable and invite international, alternative, and mainstream journalists to talk about coverage of the week's news. we believe it is important to highlight good journalism because so much of it gets passed over. we think it is also important to start off on a positive no. with that, i want to start off on a positive note tonight. i worked with very. we w

might strike a deal with aol, american online.washington post" confirming tonight that both companies are in talks. however, neither company is commenting. yahoo! fired its ceo carol barts via telephone on tuesday. >>> lawmakers are putting the finishing touches on a bill that could cost california $200 million in extra tax revenue. the bill is ab-155, it could force online retailers to collect sales taxes. a compromise between lawmakers, amazon.com and retailers would put a hold on tax collections for at least a year. the delay would give amazon and other retailers time to lobby congress for national rules regarding online taxes. >>> our coverage of the san bruno explosion continues. still ahead, survivors tell us what they wish they had known before the blast destroyed their possessions. >> and we hear from the city manager from san bruno andr jobd r b vehabeen changed forever. back in a moment. ♪ [ female announcer ] sweet honey taste. 80 calories per serving. 40% daily value of fiber. i'm here in the downtown area where the cr

opened the tech crunch conference today in san francisco saying he no longer works for tech crunch or aol so. focusing on his new venture fund called crunch fund. you may remember it sparked controversial after raising concerns over journalism ethics z the former editor has been named editor in chief and will invest $10 million in the crunch fund. and speculation china may invest in italy paved way for a late turn around today. green arrows for the major indexes. gains led by shares of tech and financial companies. and bloomberg went higher with help for shares. sales of nintendo aren't doing as well as expected. analysts say the players will be probably 16% shy of the target price as cuts and new accessories failed to spark demand and say nintendo needs to restore confidence introducing more major game titles or developing games for social networks. the stock tumbled 80% since the high in 2007. >> and we know angry birds has been the rage. there is talk about the movie and a theme park? really? what is this about. >> and angry birds moved from internet and into a chinese theme park. the

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search engine z yahoo does have other suitors as well, we've reported another option that the aol's ceo tim armstrong is looking to combine companies. shares of research in motion got pounded today, plunging by 19% after reporting those very disappointing earnings yesterday. the black berry maker is losing ground in the market and has made very little progress with its new playbook tab blet. the last quarter rim shift one tablet for every 46 ipads sold by apple. ouch. the broader market fared better today, stocks closed higher, bloomberg index was also a winner for the week gaining over 1% in trading today, more changes coming to twitter based here in san francisco. two directors fred wilson are stepping down from the company's board. both of them backed the company early on as venture capitolists. in response, twitter leased a statement saying the company appreciates the roles and looks forward to their continued input. twitter reshuffled management and tried to compete with facebook and google. at bloomberg studies i'm emily chang with bloomberg west. >> back on yahoo. you had a guest

i am the general manager of aol's political division in town. i was formerly with the huffington post. prior to that i was with "roll call." i will let everyone on the panel introduced themselves. >> i am jim barnett. at the ripe old age of 43 i went back to management school, and i studied about non-profit models for a journalism. before that i was a washington correspondent. >> i am an editorial director for the journal of higher education. i was most recently that editor for four years, and now i am in charge of strategy on the digital side and all the old print side for our publications. >> i have been active in teaching journalist how to use twitter and other social mid ia. steve buttry. >> i'm a blogger for npr. i am also part of their social media team, which started off about three years ago, and it was an evangelizing thing, and now we manage the facebook page and npr social media presence as well as cloud experiments. >> the structure of our organization for this conversation, i want to throw out a framework for the program, and that i

there is talk yahoo is exploring a partnership with other internet companies like aol, but analysts suggested yahoo may put itself up for sale or sell parts of the company before finding a new ceo. shares closed up 5% today on the news that bart is out z take a look at major indexes. dow gaining 275 points today. s and p and nasdaq closed up as well. investors speculating the president may announce a plan to invest more than $300 billion in the economy when' dresses the nation tomorrow night. your index also posted gains today. now, helping rally were shares of hewlett-packard. up 2% today. the company plans to introduce eight new desk top computers in two months. four will have touch screens. the new computers will start coming out this month and cost from 600 to $900 this, comes after the world's largest computer maker says ill spin off pc unit, focusing on expanding the software business instead. google says the internet license was renewed by the chinese government. google moved it's search engine off shore to avoid sensorship rules but since then, has been losing market share in china. a

aol and yahoo may be talking a merger. 5089's ceo is trying to find out if they are interested in joininghey are competing with google and facebook. >> and movie-goers, contagion caught $21 million. that is america's money. >>> a richmond family touched by tragedy is getting help thanks to some generous neighbors. they collected funds for a family at a community gatherings this weekend. families grandmother was killed during a recent home invasion robbery. her son is still hospitalized with bullet wounds. >> we actually believe we are a community in action and we actually belief that is what we do. we have reached out any way we can to help them, money and things for the children. anything they need will help. >> investigators say denise and her mother surprised the burglar they later arrested a parolee in connection with the shooting. >> they are training part time operators and next month the graduates will hit the road. transit agency got the ability to use part-timers in a measure passed by voters last november. muni says it will help avoid overtime and thereby reduce costs. part-time

in our economywatch in morning, aol may be contemplating a merger with yahoo.ceo tim armstrong is caulk with 82 who advisors on the possible merger. this comes days after yahoo fires ceo carol bart after three years on the job. it's not clear if this merge would actually happen. a source close to both companies tells bloomberg that yahoo is probably not interested. >>> we're learning new details about the rumored sprint iphone. sources close to the company say it will start selling the popular apple gadget next year with an unlimited data plan. both at&t and verizon already sell the iphone but those companies no longer offer unlimited data plans. sprint is the country's third largest wireless carrier. >>> on monday we may learn more details about the estimated 40,000 bank of america jobs boeing cut nationwide. details are expected to be discussed by the chief executive. but some information has already been made public. the layoffs will come mainly from the consumer banking operations. that is going to impact branches, loan centers and other offices in californ

joining me now are howard feinman, editorial director for aol/huffington post media group and nbc analyst and ron kerry, former chief of staff to michele bachmann and former chairman of the minnesota republican party. thank you both for joining me tonight. >> hi, lawrence. >> thank you, lawrence. >> ron kerry, i wanted to get your take on the status of the bachmann campaign at this point. does that new york post item today make sense to you that she's in trouble financially and may be running out of gas soon? >> michele's always had trouble raising money from fund-raiser that can give more than $5,000. the life blood of her campaign is the small donor and she has largest donor file of any conservative candidate, whether it be congress, senate or any activist. so, she has a wide spectrum of people to draw upon. the question is, will they still give? are they going to write that $25 check if they think her campaign is dead in the water? i guess the next 30 to 60 days will show whether or not they still believe enough in her campaign versus cain, santorum or somebody else to make sure their

and everybody, aol and time warner had just merged, and things were going quite well. and so when the tribune decided to buy this, things looked pretty good, the future looked pretty bright. we paid a lot of money for it, and it was, and the way the deal was structured is we bought the company even though mark willis, the cereal killer who was the ceo of times mirror -- and by the way, he got that title. he used to be the co-chairman of general mills where they made all the cereal. and the staff at the l.a. times was phenomenal. if staff of the l.a. times would have done as well at journalism as they did at coming up with nicknames, we wouldn't be talking about this because they did a great job. [laughter] so they nicknamed mark the cereal killer because he came in, right away started cutting things, cutting staff. he went and closed new york newsday and, therefore, he got that name. but when the transcribe buick -- tribune bought it, mark willis didn't know that the tribune was buying it. it was kind of a nice little back-stabbing drama that played out in a place wher

joining me, the intense editorial director for the aol "huffington post" media group and msnbc analyst howard fineman. howard, we are watching rick perry trying to dig his way out of the social security hole he dug for himself. i said after the nbc debate last week you cannot possibly win the presidency campaigning on the demonization of social security. how is he doing? he didn't want to bring up ponzi scheme. he wasn't going to use those words. romney stuffed it on to him. at a certain point, the best he could with ponzi scheme this time around was to say, hey, i wasn't the first one to call it a ponzi scheme. how's he doing? >> well, not that great. and you can't -- you're right. i don't think you can win the presidency that way. that doesn't mean you can't win the republican nomination that way. the problem that he's got, that rick perry has conceptually, if you call something unconstitutional and illegal, by definition you don't want to fix it. how do you fix something that's unconstitutional and illegal? he has a conceptual and rhetorical problem. the other candidates let romney

through a web browser for gmail, yahoo mail, aol mail.r if you have a special client, it may not be pre- installed but it will be easy to install if not. >> they announced it tomorrow. it comes out in november just in time for the holidays. >> funny how that works out. >> what are the drawbacks compared to the ipad? >> if it is 7" makes for a great book reader experience then it makes for less good of a web experience or movie watching experience. you have to balance those two. and also it's not apple. and apple has the greatest number of developers. apple has this whole ecosystem of iphone, ipad, even ipod and imac. you're not buying into as rich an ecosystem of devices that work together but you are buying into a nice ecosystem of amazon services. it's a balance for people. >> can you read a book on an ipad? >> you can read the books on the kindle appear or use apple's i books. these are color lcd screens like an i top. there is no replacing the real ink on a real kindle for easy reading. 249 is the expectation and you will get free wir

. >> joining me now, editorial director for aol, huffington post, msnbc political analyst howard fineman. thanks for joining me tonight, howard. >> hi, lawrence. >> howard, i'm confused by dick durbin's statement. he's saying we're not going to get 100% of the democrats in the united states senate but if we democrats have to pass it we will. they need 60 votes to pass it in the senate. they're nowhere close if they don't have all the democrats. >> yep. that was less than a ringing endorsement from one of the president's closest allies. and you know you're in a bad situation on the democratic side where you have mitch mcconnell giving you lobbying advice on how best you ought to operate things. i think having spoken to some people on the hill who know about that meeting that while david plouffe and gene sperling, the two people who came up and briefed, you know, made the best case they could, you know, it was not -- it was not a happy -- it was not a happy meeting for the reasons that you said. there are conservative democrats in the senate who don't want to support it because of -- they

. >> joining me now, editorial director for aol, "huffington post" and msnbc analyst howard fineman. thanks for joining me tonight. >> hey, lawrence. >> howard, you at "the huffington post" have done this fascinaing poll of what you call the 160 republican power outsiders. you've gotten their attitudes about these potential nominees. tell us about that. >> well, in iowa, new hampshire and south carolina, the big three, first three primary caucus states, we are having our patch.com local editors and reporters go out and talk to dozens and dozens and dozens of local influential republicans in those states. elected officials. party leaders. businesspeople and so on. so we have close to 200 of them we talk to every week. and to try to get a real ground-level feel, nobody else is trying to do something this extensive because we have 26 of these local patch sites in these three states. and this week we asked them about rick perry and mitt romney. what we found was rick perry plummeting like a stone among the grassroots people, the sort of local influentials in those three states. they ende

let's bring in editorial director for aol, huffington post, msnbc, howard fineman. >> i'm glad we haveside. we used to call him bullet during the campaign. >> we've got someone who can guide me through republican politics. i need a guide. howard, on social security, for the obama campaign, is it helpful to them to watch mitt romney basically complaining in effect, tonally anyway, as a defender of social security against rick perry? will that help mitt romney going into a general election against president obama, make it more difficult for the democratic campaign to say that this republican candidate is a threat to social security? >> well, i think mitt romney has to hope that. i'm not sure that the obama campaign would agree with that. in fact, i know they won't. i think for right now president obama can use all the help he can get in defending the idea of the usefulness of government. and to the extent that it's kind of two against one here, meaning president obama and mitt romney against rick perry, that helps barack obama. but if mitt romney were to get the nomination, you can be su