Silicon Alley Reporter Silicon Alley Reporter Silicon Alley Reporter was an American trade publication focused on New York's Silicon Alley. Founded by Jason Calacanis in 1996, then was renamed the "Venture Reporter" in 2001 and was eventually sold to Dow Jones in 2003. Rafat Ali served as Managing Editor before founding paidContent.org and its parent company ContentNext Media. Notable contributors include Xeni Jardin, Rafat Ali and Clay Shirky. The parent company of "Silicon Alley Reporter" and "Venture Reporter" was called Rising Tide Studios. Karol Martesko-Fenster collaborated with Jason Calacanis and Gordon Gould from 1997 to 1999 on the launch of "Silicon Alley Reporter"
Alley of the older thoroughfares in Covent Garden, Cecil Court dates back to the end of the 17th century. A tradesman's route at its inception, it later acquired the nickname Flicker Alley because of the concentration of early film companies in the Court. The first film-related company arrived in Cecil Court in 1897, a year after the first demonstration of moving pictures in the United Kingdom and a decade before London’s first purpose built cinema opened its doors. Since the 1930s it has been known as the new Booksellers' Row as it is home to nearly twenty antiquarian and second-hand independent