• Telegraph: Bosnian police have found the hoodie-clad girl seen throwing puppies into a river in a YouTube video.

• Village Voice: Hurricane Earl probably won’t kill you, but there’s always West Nile.

• UnBeige: Now Google owns your house, too.

Enjoy the long weekend, kiddos. We’re off Monday unless something big breaks.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Original post by Lux Alptraum

Strap on your sandals, bloggers, and get ready to give the big publishing companies a run for their money - the creators of StyleCaster just announced the launch of The Masthead, a new platform that gives influential style sites of all sizes the same access to advertising dollars as the makers of glossy magazines.

Co-founder and CEO Ari Goldberg wasn’t always into women’s lifestyle - he started out in sports and entertainment marketing. “I went from hanging with guys who could dunk to tall, skinny models,” he said. “It’s not a bad switch.”

Goldberg was working with LeBron James and his LRMR Marketing company when he met StyleCaster Media Group’s primary angel investor Dan Gilbert, who also owns the Cleveland Cavaliers. “‘I don’t invest in businesses, I invest in people,’” Gilbert had told him.

In this case, Gilbert was investing in Ari and his brother David Goldberg, as well as their other co-founder Albert Azout. “No one works harder than my brother,” said Goldberg. “He’s my guy.” In 2007 the team built their first property, StyleCaster, a lifestyle site with original and curated content.

With just under $5 million in seed funding, the business has “progressed more like a movie than a tech company,” Goldberg said, by focusing on perfecting the site’s content before reaching out to advertisers. People go into the “vanity industries” of fashion and entertainment for “reasons other than money,” he said. At their core, these publishers have a lot of “pride and integrity in what they do.”

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Original post by Lux Alptraum

Jewish weekly newspaper the Forward has partnered with Hazon, a non-profit, to relaunch their “The Jew and the Carrot” food blog on the paper’s site.

The blog will serve as a place to explore issues relating to Jewish culture’s relationship to food, including presenting sustainable/organic food options to readers.

One blog post currently on the site, however, dissects an issue that deeply impacts, as the blog puts it, “Jews and Gentiles, and Manhattanites and Brooklyners” alike: the bagel tax (of doom). And, in preparation for Rosh Hashanah, the blog provides recipes for sophisticated honey consumption — mead and hard cider cocktails.

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Original post by Lux Alptraum