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This is the Tumblr home of Jake Brooks, Digital Development Editor at Fortune.

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Yesterday, Mayor Bloomberg signed into law what he termed “the most ambitious and comprehensive open data legislation in the...

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An investigation of the many scams of Minkow—who goes from prison, to church, and then back to prison:

Minkow was the boy-wonder business phenom...

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“No one, least of all me, is suggesting that running a newspaper company is a piece of cake. But the people in the industry who are content to slide...”

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The court of the king is a lucrative place to be, but equally dangerous. While upgrading my iPhone to iOS 5 – an excellent upgrade, by the way – I...
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Khoi Vinh: Magazines Are Failing at the iPad

Digiday interviewed former New York Times design director Khoi Vinh, who has been critical of...

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I Had A Dream, Joe: I love shit like this...

So this evening I was outside the Duane Reade in my neighborhood, and I walked right past a guy wearing a New York Observer t-shirt. Which seemed extra cool to me because my neighborhood is not in New York, but Jersey City. So I stopped him and I was like, “The New York Observer! I used to work…

Wait. How did this conversation take place with no irony? Or an empathetic hug? And what about the big reveal? The “reporter” was none other than … RON ROSENBAUM!