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TVNewser: Take the poll: Who is the next Oprah?
MediaJobsDaily: The Washington Post Co. laid off staffers today from washingtongpost.com.
Reuters: Hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, which now owns a 14.64 percent stake in The New York Times Co., cut its [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 6:00pm EST
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 After cutting 90 people from its news department this week, shuttering four bureaus, the Associated Press today announced that it had expanded the roles of six news editors and appointed four interim regional photo editors "as part of a restructuring of [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:10pm EST
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 Today saw the premiere issue of the much-discussed Chicago edition of The New York Times. The Times has been encroaching on regional news since it started Bay Area coverage last month, and the launch in Chicago is further indication that Arthur Sulzberger and [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:30pm EST
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 Yesterday AOL revealed that it was looking to cut one-third of its staff as it heads towards its spin off from parent company Time Warner and looks to trim $300 million from its annual operating costs.
But, as our sister blog WebNewser [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 4:05pm EST
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 Despite recent layoffs, Forbes Media is still moving forward.
ForbesLife, the bimonthly Forbes' spin-off focused on culture and lifestyle, has put Lorraine Cademartori at the helm of the publication in the role of executive editor. She has spent the previous [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 3:42pm EST
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 To say it's been a rough week for BusinessWeek would be an understatement. Yesterday, the axe fell hard, and new parent Bloomberg LP has cut around 130 people for the business mag's staff -- including 60 to 70 [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:40pm EST
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 The Columbia Journalism Review just happened to catch some similarities between an October 2008 cover for The Economist and a May 2009 edition of The Atlantic. Besides the typeface, the pictures on the covers are almost identical: both show the shadow outline [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 1:00pm EST
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You'd never know it from the cuts across the board being made at publishers like Time Inc. and Forbes Media, but some of these companies' titles are seeing a upswing in their readership. Lucia Moses of MediaWeek reported this week that Fortune, [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:36pm EST
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 Yesterday, it became clear that the rumors were true: Oprah Winfrey will be leaving her network TV show in 2011.
Tim Bennett, CEO of Winfrey's production company Harpo, sent a letter to the local television stations that broadcast her show yesterday, letting them know [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:00pm EST
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Mediabistro caught up with Notional CEO Ricky Van Veen at the launch party for the company last night at the IAC building. Van Veen -- co-founder and former editor-in-chief of CollegeHumor.com -- told us Notional "is a television and web production company with the DNA of an [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:29am EST
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Levi Johnston with the author, Nicole Caldwell, at last week's Playgirl photo shoot
Levi Johnston is standing naked in a 13th-floor studio in midtown Manhattan holding a hockey stick.
He swivels his head and looks into the camera as -- click -- the photo [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 11:00am EST
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 One year since its launch, online news hub The Daily Beast has named a president, Stephen Colvin. Colvin, executive vice president of CNET/CBS Interactive, will report directly to the site's founder and editor-in-chief, Tina Brown.
Colvin was formerly the president and CEO of [...]
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 10:35am EST
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Posted: November 20, 2009, 8:30am EST
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The Wrap: Nielsen's sale of various publications, including The Hollywood Reporter and Billboard to James Finkelstein, whose family's company News Communications Inc. owns the "Who's Who" series, may be completed by Friday.
The Awl: A graph of magazine revenue over the last 10 years.
Gawker: [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:30pm EST
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 Coming a day late (The Wall Street Journal broke the story yesterday which quickly sped through media outlets) Condé Nast announced this afternoon its plan to move its titles into the 21st century with its Digital Magazine Initiative. This includes the much-talked-about e-readers version of [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 6:29pm EST
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 "Nightline" has an interview with lifestyle and cooking tycoon Martha Stewart tonight, in which she talks about how it felt to lose "more than a billion dollars" while in prison (though whether that billion was hers personally, or tied up in Martha Stewart [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:30pm EST
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"Nightline" has an interview with lifestyle and cooking tycoon Martha Stewart tonight, in which she talks about how it felt to lose "more than a billion dollars" while in prison (though whether that billion was hers personally, or tied up in Martha Stewart [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:30pm EST
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We've been following the brutal layoffs at the Associated Press all week, and the news organization has remained mum throughout. Until now.
Last year, CEO Tom Curley told staff that the company needed to cut 10 percent of its payroll costs, and voluntary buyouts, a hiring freeze and [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 5:00pm EST
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Ken Armstrong accepts the John Chancellor Award
"The only way I can get into Columbia is to be asked to speak," joked NBC News correspondent Tom Brokaw as he kicked off the ceremony for the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 4:20pm EST
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Today, the News Media Guild, which represents 1,300 Associated Press employees, provided an update on this week's layoffs.
According to the union, 14 more people lost their jobs yesterday, bringing the grand total of unionized AP staffers laid off during this week to 71. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:22pm EST
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 After filing for Chapter 11 this August, Reader's Digest Association has been working on a restructuring plan to get itself out of debt. Some of this has been the unfortunate (but par for course) shuttering of titles, like Rick Warren's ill-fated The Purpose [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 3:00pm EST
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Today, we have been following the tweets of departing BusinessWeek writers and editors as they get word from the bosses at Bloomberg LP about layoffs.
Although we knew no one was safe, we were shocked to learn that media columnist Jon Fine, [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 2:16pm EST
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 FishbowlNY sister site MediaJobsDaily made mention of Danko Steiner's exit as design director from Vogue this morning.
Steiner had been working at the Condé Nast publication for four years, but his decision to leave must have been known for quite some time. How [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:30pm EST
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 Who said the shelter category is dead? After finishing the year as the leader in ad sales for the category, Elle Decor said today that it was raising its rate base by 10 percent -- from 500,000 to 550,000 -- starting with its March [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:00pm EST
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Today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, hosts Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven welcomed PRNewser editor Joe Ciarallo to talk about the day's biggest media news.
On tap today: Jason discussed last night's National [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 12:17pm EST
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News of this week's layoffs at BusinessWeek is starting to trickle on to Twitter.
Looks like technology editor Steve Wildstrom and innovation and design writer Damian Joseph are among laid off by new owner Bloomberg LP. Good luck guys!
We'll [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:17am EST
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It looks like last week's layoffs were only the tip of ice berg for AOL. As predicted, the company said today that it was looking to trim its workforce by one-third as it prepares to spin off from its parent company, [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:00am EST
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 Fashion and lifestyle e-newsletter DailyCandy launches its members-only, curated sample sale Web site Swirl, Sample Sales by DailyCandy today. A "limited number of first-come, first-served DailyCandy subscribers" will be privy to a sale of Alisha Levine knits today, as DailyCandy branches out into a [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 10:00am EST
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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. [...]
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Posted: November 19, 2009, 8:32am EST
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 6:30pm EST
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 Yesterday we reported on the controversy brought up by what some are calling a "sexist" cover of Sarah Palin on the current issue of Newsweek. The issue featured a picture of the former governor wearing athletic shorts, taken from an old copy of [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:30pm EST
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— DIANE CLEHANE
You never know who you're going to meet on any given Wednesday at Michael's. I've chatted with former presidents, Oscar winners, and tabloid targets who have made the usually unflappable crowd turn and stare, but it's those unexpected, below the radar moments that are [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 5:15pm EST
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 The American Society of Magazine Editors is gearing up for submissions to its 2010 National Magazine Awards. For the first time ever, the awards will include a separate ceremony for digital media, which last year included four categories. This year, they have been expanded into 12 [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:20pm EST
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Our sister blog TVNewser reports today that former Fox News anchor Suzanne Sena is now working for satrical newspaper The Onion's fake online news network ONN. We wonder how difficult the transition from covering real news for FNC to covering fake news was for Sena.
In the [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 4:00pm EST
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 Earlier this year, we learned of Atlantic Media's plans to launch a new digital property when it brought on Slate founder Michael Kinsley to oversee the mysterious project.
Today, the parent company of The Atlantic announced another new hire for the [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 3:02pm EST
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 Even as the media industry is seeming falling apart all around us, the industry still insists on honoring its members. There's no better time than the present to look on the bright side, we suppose.
This morning, min announced the winners of its [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:30pm EST
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This morning, mediabistro.com's senior editor Donya Blaze spoke with New Yorker columnist and author of "Googled: The End of the World as we Know It," Ken Auletta for our upcoming video series Media Beat. In addition to discussing the book (Nora Ephron helped him out with the title), [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 2:04pm EST
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 Yesterday, we got our hands on Esquire's augmented reality issue and fired up our Web cam for a test run.
It took us a few minutes to download and install the software from Esquire's Web site, and after it loaded it promptly took over our [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 1:30pm EST
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Blogger Melissa Lafsky, the latest editor of the blog The Infrastructurist, joined the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast today, where she chatted with hosts Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven about the site that she described as an [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:00pm EST
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 As People magazine celebrates Johnny Depp as the "Sexiest Man Of The Year" (again), everything is not well in the state of People's publisher Time Inc. The company is still looking to trim $100 million from its budget through layoffs and buyouts, [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:00am EST
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The Associated Press may be staying mum about the number of staffers laid off yesterday, but more information about how many and who have been cut are starting to surface from various sources.
According to the AP's own report on the layoffs, 38 [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 10:30am EST
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It's been a busy week for the new Bloomberg LP-owned BusinessWeek. First, there was the appointment of a new editor, Josh Tyrangiel, to succeed Stephen Adler. And now, the layoffs are upon us.
According to reports, Bloomberg is [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:45am EST
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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media. [...]
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Posted: November 18, 2009, 8:35am EST
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