Nick Baumann

"[T]he Academy comes across as awfully over-sensitive about what is, at its core, a deeply silly and self-celebratory promotional event for its products"

"I’d like to briefly address the complete moron in the Red Sox organization who insinuated to a reporter that Terry Francona had a problem with prescription pills. Dear Moron, Congratulations! You have just (a) attacked the best and most popular manager your team has ever had while (b) displaying a complete lack of institutional loyalty, which (c) pretty much guarantees that no one in his right mind will want to manage your team now, and (d) turned everyone against each other causing (e) massive paranoia which will undoubtedly lead to (f) a thousand more stories about how dysfunctional your organization is, which will only intensify the ill effects of (b,c,d,e). You are the worst person in the world. Quit."

"Regardless, anything is an upgrade from Condé Nast’s previous system, which required the tech team to be heavily involved in almost any Web publishing. The CQ5 system will let editors publish independently of that team, a function the staff at most other digital publications have had for a decade."

"I have been writing online for so long that it has been recommended to me that I do not mention how long that is on my resume."

"It’s true that just because outlets like the NYT have more bills to pay and need to generate more revenue per customer to break even does not necessarily beget the pay model as the optimal solution. I’m pretty agnostic as to whether the pay model is the right approach. Nevertheless, this is not a problem faced by outlets that concentrate only on reporting types of news that involve relatively high profit margins. The nightmare scenario has nothing to do with the New York Times per se, but instead involves news outlets pulling out of reporting on areas like international news and statehouse news that are hard to monetize, and having more stories go unreported, underreported, or misreported as a result."

"It’s safe to say that Jay-Z now only has 98 problems."

"…[F]or such a business model to work, it has to be viable. A tautology as simple as that should be self-evident even to the most terrified media executive."

"The protection in FOIA against disclosure of law enforcement information on the ground that it would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy does not extend to corporations. We trust that AT&T will not take it personally."