"A high friend count is as much evidence of a willingness to hustle as it is proof of popularity."

I postedthe Time We End It issueof the Sun-Times below two days ago. Today Emily Millertweets: Mr. @Romenesko, news its time we end it has been greatly exaggerated. Our rebuttal, today in #Aurora by @slulay2:http://instagr.am/p/KvHeeBoNMH

Correction: an earlier tweet had incorrect information.#DonnaSummerdies at 63usat.ly/JLAV44@usatodaylife@usatodaymusicOops. Wrong black female singer. @USATODAYlife: Diana Ross loses battle with cancer at 63. @usatodaymusicâ? @MRuggieri@Debwilker

I cant believe how slow a news days it is when theyre bringing camera crews outhere, says the owner of Chucks Place in tiny (population 3,192) Thiensville, Wisconsin.Ted Hagen says his phone hasnt stopped ringing since a local news sitefirst reportedthat h e banned a 350-pound customer known by Chucks employees as Big Bill for exploiting the all-you-can-eat fish fry

(Reuters) - Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc is making another bet on the newspaper industry, with a deal to buy the majority of Media General Inc's papers for $142 million in cash.Berkshire will

A spokeswoman told Capital the New York hub will have both editorial and business-side staffers. The main headquarters will remain in Washington, D.C.

Newt Gingrichs campaign is so dead Mitt Romney wants to baptize it and Rick Santorum wants to put it in a jar and show it to his kids.Jimmy Kimmel discussed this joke he decided not to tell at the White House Correspondents Dinner during an appearance this week on Howard Sterns Sirius XM show. The transcript:

Nancy French walked into the Books-A-Million store in Spring Hills, Tenn., with her three kids last week and saw the above books display that she found disturbing.One book promised to make this the most erotic year of your life with 365 sexual positions – one of which was shown in plain, naked view on its cover

A headhunter asked Larry Kramer a few months ago if he was interested in editing USA Today; he said no.That was not what I wanted to do at this stage of my life, the 62-year-old journalist and entrepreneur tells Jon Friedman. I didn’t think that the transf ormation could happen at an editor’s spot.

Ive asked the Newseum to tell Romenesko readers more about itsnew watermarking systemdesigned to prevent illegal downloads of the newspaper front pages.Are the Newseum folks upset about people posting the pages on Facebook and sharing them on other social media sites?