Did Google get Fortune managing editor Andrew Serwer to spike an October 19, 2007 blog post discussing the upcoming nuptuals of Google Inc. co-founder Larry Page to girlfriend Lucy Southworth?

Ordinarily such Internet gossip might be easily dismissed.  But in this case the person asking the question is Peter Cohan, a contributor to BloggingStocks.com, which like Fortune is owned by Time Warner.

Cohan says it's clear that Serwer's post was available on line and then it disappeared, banished even from Google's cache.  (He cites as his source another web site, Valleywag.)  "Valleywag now suggests that the wedding could be held on Richard Branson's Necker Island," Cohan says.  He asks readers to comment if they have any knowledge of why the Serwer piece was yanked.  As of November 22, no reader has responded.

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"We could think of no better place than India—and its capital, New Delhi—to serve as host city to a global dialogue among global leaders,” said Andrew Serwer, managing editor of FORTUNE. “As a potential consumer market, emerging global manufacturing center, and powerhouse in technology and services, India is on the minds of corporate leaders around the world.” << MORE >>

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Dartmouth College Office of Public Affairs • Press Release
Posted 09/25/06 • Susan Knapp • (603) 646-3661

Peter Coy (Photo courtesy Peter Coy)

Greg Ip (Photo courtesy Greg Ip)

Steve Liesman (Photo courtesy Steve Liesman)

Andrew Serwer (Photo courtesy Andrew Serwer)

On October 3, five national journalists will be on campus to discuss their work in covering economic and business news. Their visit will include a public panel discussion titled "Beyond the Headlines" at 4:30 p.m. in Filene Auditorium in Moore Hall. The panel will feature Greg Ip from The Wall Street Journal, CNBC's Senior Economics Reporter Steve Liesman, Eduardo Porter from The New York Times, Peter Coy from Business Week, and Andrew Serwer from Fortune and CNN.

The discussion will be moderated by Andrew Samwick, director of Dartmouth's Rockefeller Center, and it is free and open to the public.

The panel will discuss how economic and public policy issues are covered by the media, the public's understanding of these issues, and how these issues are likely to influence elections in the coming years. Panelists will also describe factors that impact the media's role in reporting these issues. Finally, in our rapidly changing environment influenced by technology, journalists will discuss new methods of communication and their impact on the future of traditional media.

"The news media play an essential role in shaping the discussion of public policy issues through investigative reporting, analysis, and commentary," says Samwick. "Our panel is made up of distinguished journalists from both print and television outlets that have insights on how the media are evolving in the Information Age. Each of them has a unique vantage point on the economic and policy challenges facing the country and the way those challenges will be portrayed in the media."

This program is co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Center and Dartmouth's Office of Public Affairs.