The Daily Show: Turns out Gretchen Carlson isn't a dumb blonde after all, she just plays one on TV.
Editor and Publisher: Are women editors leaving the news workplace on purpose? And how do we get them back?
MediaElites: The Baltimore Sun blog just up and quit pretending it' [...]
— DIANE CLEHANE
The mood was downright festive today in Michael's dining room as the usual suspects air kissed and glad handed their way to their regular perches. After all, it is the holidays, and the general consensus is it's about time we set aside the prevailing gloom [...]
At last night's mediabistro.com "Social Media and the Customer: Focus on Community Management" panel, former BusinessWeek community editor Shirley Brady revealed that she and veteran reporter Steve Baker had "set up a private Ning network to keep people in the loop" while the [...]
New York Times-watcher blog NYTpick.com raised an interesting point about the section of the Times' 2009 Holiday Gift Guide called "Of Color|Stylish Gifts," which draws "inspiration from the lives of Barack Obama and Sonia Sotomayor" and includes gifts such as Baby' [...]
Tomorrow will be the last day for Crain's New York Business' editorial director Greg David, who is leaving the pub after more than 33 years at Crain Communications.
David is leaving his full-time gig at Crain's to become the director of the business and economics program' [...]
Technology and the media converged today on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, when host Jason Boog of GalleyCat and Joe Ciarallo of PRNewser welcomed Peter Kafka, tech and media writer for the blog AllThingsD.com.
Jason and Joe picked Pete's brain about [...]
Elizabeth Mayhew, a lifestyle expert most well-known for her appearances on the "Today" show, has been named VP, editor in chief, brand content of Hachette Filipacchi's Woman's Day Group.
Starting January 4, Mayhew (right) will take over for the current top editor of Woman's Day, [...]
Out of all the positions in the newspaper industry to freeze during a recession, it's sad that the people who write and edit the actual copy are the ones who have to find work in a different field. Meanwhile, advertising and marketing staffs continue to grow in [...]
Magazine publisher Bonnier Corp. has grown rapidly in the past year, thanks to several major acquisitions. The most recent, announced today, brings book publisher Weldon Owen Publishing into the Bonnier fold, giving the company its own book division.
Weldon Owen is most well-known for publishing illustrated non-fiction [...]
With the end of the year upon us (almost) we're girding ourselves against the inevitable onslaught of top ten end-of-the-year lists.
But we were unprepared for the sheer number of lists Time magazine has pumped out for the end of the year.
One of our favorites' [...]
Last week we were tipped to the fact that 13 New York City-based blogs had joined forces to create the ultimate holiday guide for our fair city. If you have yet to check it out, we suggest you take a minute to peruse some of the helpful [...]
For the past month, Rupert Murdoch's little kerfuffle with Google has been the center of a heated debate about how content should be aggregated.
First, the News Corp. boss grouchily warned that his newspapers' content would be pulled from Google's news feed, then' [...]
For the past month, Rupert Murdoch's little kerfuffle with Google has been the center of a heated debate about how content should be aggregated.
First, the News Corp. boss grouchily warned that his newspapers' content would be pulled from Google's news feed, then' [...]
Today is just the day for former print people to move on over to the other (digital) side: first was MaryAnn Bekkedahl from Rodale Inc., and now New York Times tech writer Saul Hansell is leaving his Bits blog behind to be the [...]
TVNewser: Juju Chang has been picked to be the new "Good Morning America" newsreader. She will replace Chris Cuomo, who is in negotiations to become co-anchor of "20/20" and to report for other ABC News broadcasts.
New York Times: Google, The New York Times and [...]
MaryAnn Bekkedahl, the EVP/group publisher at Rodale Inc., today announced plans to leave the publisher after 17 years. Rodale said Bekkedahl was departing "in order to pursue digital and new media opportunities," although any specific plans weren't mentioned.
"While I've enjoyed participating in this whirlwind of" [...]
Remember how you applied to journalism school after college and then didn't go because it turned out to be a drain on your finances and no one is getting a job in journalism, masters degree or no masters degree? (Never mind the inexplicable fact that j-school applications' [...]
Maybe Kelly Ripa shouldn't be so cavalier in calling herself "the black widow."
This morning, with "Live with Regis and Kelly" co-host Regis Philbin out for hip replacement surgery, Ripa coaxed some previously undisclosed information out of fill-in host Bryant Gumbel. And when' [...]
Our sister site Baynewser sat down recently to interview McSweeney's 's publisher Oscar Villalon about their print newspaper project, San Francisco Panorama, which is the latest issue of McSweeney's Quarterly. Villalon says he hopes the project will reinvigorate the newspaper business:
"There's" [...]
News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch spoke last week before the Federal Trade Commission about the government intervening to save the dying media industry. He was, in short, completely against it. And now we can all read his thoughts on the future of the [...]
Lets face it, New York media rankings are interesting to a small group of people: the power players involved, and their parents.
So it was surprising when MSNBC's Dan Abrams launched his much-talked about Mediaite.com -- which pitted all of media's hottest writers and [...]
Though it might be limping from staff cuts, proposed pay walls and taking papers like The Boston Globe off the market, somehow The New York Times Co. has managed to survive despite many media watchers' low expectations this year, according to Slate.com's "Big Money"' [...]
2009 has undoubtedly been a rough year for all manner of media companies, not the least of which is The McClatchy Co., which reported a 23.1 percent decline in revenues last quarter and has been struggling with layoffs and a wage freeze since September [...]
It's been a roller coaster for BusinessWeek since Bloomberg LP bought it in October. After a slew of layoffs and high level voluntary departures, the new Bloomberg BusinessWeek has finally hit newsstands and now the magazine has a new president.
Today, Bloomberg announced [...]
"E-Readers are going to be one of the major, hot holiday items," AgencySpy editor Matt Van Hoven said this morning while introducing the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast. "And publishing right now is going through a whole lot."
With that in mind, Matt and [...]
Reality competitions have long paired with magazines: "Project Runway" first allied itself with Elle and then Marie Claire, "America's Next Top Model" has Seventeen, and "Top Chef" has a partnership with Food & Wine.
After much speculation, a group of the biggest magazine publishers in the U.S. have finally announced a joint venture that many in the industry have been calling "Hulu for Magazines."
Today, publishers Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith and Time Inc. -- and Rupert Murdoch-led [...]
TVNewser: If George Stephanopoulos takes the job as co-anchor of "Good Morning America," who should take his post as host of "This Week"?
WebNewser: PBS' "NewsHour" has relaunched its Web site.
Politico: In a memo to staffers, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller calls' [...]
Last night, Thomson Reuters launched a new version of their Web site with a more user-friendly interface and sleek design approach.
According to a statement on the site by Reuters editor-in-chief David Schlesinger:
"This site is for you; we want it to be your ticket" [...]
Earlier this week, we learned that publisher NewBay Media had picked up three trade titles from Reed Business Information, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and TWICE, for an undisclosed amount.
When any publication is sold, the obvious questions surface. Namely, what will [...]
Complex magazine, founded by Marc Ecko and headed under the parent company Marc Ecko Enterprises, is about to grow wings and fly the coop.
That is, Complex will now be part of Complex Media, also owned by Ecko, but without all that [...]
2009 has been a tough year for business magazines and small business magazines in particular.
One month after Time Inc. decided to fold its custom publication Fortune Small Business, BusinessWeek's new owner, Bloomberg LP, has announced plans to shutter its small business-focused spin-off, [...]
Keith Kelly has some bad news for The New York Times employees today. The 100 or so newsroom staffers that Bill Keller said would have to be let go -- either voluntarily or through layoffs -- because of budget cuts, will finally learn [...]
Comcast-owned DailyCandy had some bad news for its staffers yesterday. On the same day that daily online newsletter publisher's parent company announced the acquisition of a stake in NBC Universal, DailyCandy's GM Beth Ellard told staffers that six full-time editors covering various [...]
Despite its silly name, magazine and newspaper publisher Hearst is confident that its new Skiff digital publishing technology will lead the charge in e-readers by the time the application/device is ready to launch.
Launching sometime early next year, Skiff-enabled devices will produce products far-and-above the [...]
The New York Times gets props for being innovative and relevant on the Web, and (although its rumored to be trimming its vast blog network soon) there's a spot on the Gray Lady's Web site that just got a whole lot prettier.
Today, the paper's style magazine, [...]
Since it's Friday, we're consumed by thoughts of a relaxing weekend ahead, when we can walk away from our computers for a few hours and read something else besides blogs and online news -- something like a book. After today's mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast, we're thinking [...]
The Wall Street Journal posted a notice to readers yesterday revealing that a November 10 "New Global Indian" online column by freelance writer Mona Sarika had "been found to contain information that was plagiarized from several publications, including the
Last night, New York University hosted a panel in its continuing "Primary Sources" series focusing on journalism, featuring professors and media commenters Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky.
While the topic may have officially been "New Media's Present and Future," the conversation quickly moved into the [...]
TVNewser: The Washington Post reports that George Stephanopoulos has been offered the co-anchor position on "Good Morning America" to replace Diane Sawyer as she leaves for "World News."
WWD: In the midst of a recession that has hit the high-end advertising market pretty hard, luxury pub [...]
Wondering what the new Bloomberg BusinessWeek will look like?
Turns out, not that different from pre-Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The latest cover from the new pub is above, and compared to one from a few weeks ago, there's not much of a difference -- save for the addition [...]
One day after former BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler was named editorial director of Thomson Reuters' Professional division, Dow Jones reports that the media company will lay off 240 employees from one of that division's sub-sectors.
According to Dow Jones, the cuts will' [...]
USA TODAY travel editor Chris Gray Faust was one of the 26 people given the boot by the national newspaper this week.
Today, Faust says goodbye to her "dream job" in a post on The Huffington Post, the likes of which are becoming [...]
Since it wouldn't be a week in the "2009 Great Print Die-Off" if another publication didn't kick the bucket, today's victim is National Geographic spin-off, National Geographic Adventure.
Days after reporting that the magazine was up for sale, Folio has news that the [...]
When union negotiations with NBC stalled earlier this week, members of the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians threatened to pull the plug for the network's biggest holiday event: the lighting of the tree in Rockefeller Center.
But at the last minute, the union decided to rescind its warning [...]
We weren't able to make the trip to Washington, D.C. ourselves for the Federal Trade Commission's two-day conference discussing the future of journalism on the Web, but we wanted to get a sense of what was going on down there anyway. So we turned' [...]
While Rupert Murdoch sits alone in his News Corp. castle with shoes three sizes too small, demanding that none of his publication's content show up in a Google News search results, not everyone thinks that news aggregators will be the end of journalism as [...]
Well the big media deal that has been much talked about all fall has finally been officially announced.
This morning, Comcast and General Electric announced that they are entering a joint venture that will include NBC Universal -- valued at $30 billion -- as well as Comcast's' [...]
Monday morning Nick Denton announced that for the first time ever, Gawker Media writers would have the opportunity to become full-time employees instead of freelancers. Ostensibly good news in this wintery publishing climate, where benefits like health insurance (and even unemployment) are a thing [...]
Longtime science journalist Mariette DiChristina has been named the first female editor-in-chief of Scientific American in the magazine's 164-year history.
DiChristina, who joined the magazine in 2001 as executive editor, has been serving as acting editor-in-chief since her predecessor, John Rennie, left in June. [...]
Los Angeles Times: Bankrupt Tribune Co. has been granted extra time to file its plan for reorganization.
New York Observer: Hachette Filipacchi is [...]
The much-anticipated portable touchscreen Tablet gadget won't even be released until sometime next year, but Time Inc. is determined to be ahead of the curve in at least one aspect of digital technology.
Today, the struggling publishing company unveiled a prototype of what Sports Illustrated would look like' [...]
— DIANE CLEHANE
The joint was jumping today at Michael's as usual, but there's always room for one more when the random headline-grabbing celebrity makes an unannounced appearance. No matter that Jermaine Jackson showed up with publicist Marilyn Crawford without a reservation -- they got a [...]
Amidst rumors that The New York Times is looking to its blogs to cut costs, the Gray Lady launched a new online tool today giving readers a new way to view the paper's content.
Called the Times Skimmer, the newest Times tool has seven different [...]
Good news to all those Woodward and Bernstein bloggers: the Pulitzer Prize committee has now opened up the requirements for winning an award in journalism to make online reporters eligible for the prestigious honor.
Now "entries for journalism awards must be based on material coming from a" [...]
Last night, mediabistro.com kicked off the holiday party season with its own candy cane maritini-soaked shindig. We got to Tribeca Cinemas early, commandeered a big bowl of popcorn and snagged a spot at the bar, where we could get a good view of the party-goers [...]
The Associated Press may be getting stingy about aggregators infringing on their copyrighted material, but the news wire isn't above using social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter to get young adults interested in important events.
Take for instance the confirmation hearings for' [...]
Why was Conde Nast, a print leader lucky enough to have the tech-savvy Ken Auletta on their team, so darn late to the digital market? In the final installment of our Media Beat interview, the New Yorker columnist and veteran author weighs in on his employer's critical indecision.
Watch [...]
Our sister blog MediaJobsDaily did some digging into the recent news that Gawker Media has offered some of its writers full-time employment status, particularly the theory that former Gawker staffer Sheila McClear's request for unemployment payments following her layoff last year was the [...]
Nancy Berger Cardone, formerly the publisher of the much-missed Gourmet, has been named vice president and publisher of Hearst's Marie Claire. She replaces Susan Plagemann, who left the women's magazine last month to take on the role of publisher at [...]
Thompson Reuters announced today that departed BusinessWeek editor Stephen Adler is joining the media company in the newly created position of senior vice president and editorial director of its Professional division.
The Professional division of Thompson Reuters, which includes the company's Westlaw legal database as [...]
Just over a month after former Vibe editor Danyel Smith stepped down as managing editor of TheRoot.com, the Washington Post Co.-owned Web site has named a replacement.
Veteran journalist Joel Dreyfuss will take over the post on December 7, a company spokesperson confirmed [...]
Throughout the month of December, mediabistro.com is offering daily deals on a slew of its courses starting in January. Today's deal is one we think FishbowlNY readers will really enjoy.
Sign up now for the online short story writing course using the special code DAILY1202 and save [...]TVNewser: Charlie Gibson will sign off from "World News" on December 18.
Politico: Layoffs hit USA TODAY as the national paper looks to cut [...]
Yesterday's news that Jim Lehrer's name will no longer be in the title for PBS' "NewsHour" wasn't the only change in the non-profit network. "Newshour" was also partnering with digital media news outlet GlobalPost for international stories, and today brings news that PBS'' [...]
New York Post senior reporter Austin Fenner was fired from the paper on November 9, the same day that a former colleague, Sandra Guzman, filed a discrimination suit against the Rupert Murdoch-owned paper. This week, Fenner, who is black, leveled his own allegations [...]
Since it's now December (eek) the year that was 2009 is coming to a close. And you know what that means: for the next few weeks, end of the year lists and "best of" retrospectives will be filling up all of the magazines [...]
If you had a choice between working for two similar titles, one which was owned by a publishing company that was publicly cutting staffers down to bare bones, or one that was winning awards and actually gaining ad pages in 2009, which would you choose?
Yeah, we [...]
Several news outlets reported last night that General Electric had reached an agreement with Vivendi to buy the remaining stake in NBC Universal that it did not yet own. This long-expected agreement now paves the way for Comcast to step in and pick up a controlling [...]
FishbowlNY has learned that Oyster.com has let some of its hotel reviewing reporters go and has plans to slow the rate that it's expanding its coverage of new areas.
A spokesperson for the company confirmed that "a subset of reporters" had been laid off from the Web [...]
Last week we all stayed extra late before our little Thanksgiving break to write about the sudden (but not totally unexpected) departure of John Byrne from BusinessWeek. Even though the company had produced a memo saying that the editor wouldn't be leaving after' [...]
Most reporters could only dream of having a career as fruitful as Ken Auletta's. Bestselling author. Noted columnist for The New Yorker. Respected media expert. Here, Auletta gives tips to other journos looking to follow in his multi-platform footsteps. One advantage of a strong personal brand? Having a' [...]
Babies and parenting took over the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast this morning, as hosts Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven welcomed Babble.com founder Rufus Griscom to talk about the future of parenting media.
Rufus talked about [...]
Reed Business Information has sold three of its business-to-business publications, Broadcasting & Cable, Multichannel News and TWICE to NewBay Media, the publisher of broadcasting b-to-b titles like Television Broadcast and Radio World and an affiliate of private equity firm the [...]
Playboy Enterprises has promoted Playboy magazine's editorial director Jimmy Jellinek to the newly created position of chief content officer.
In his new position, the former editor-in-chief of Maxim and Stuff will now oversee the content on all of Playboy Enterprises' media platforms.' [...]
When Bloomberg LP, the new owner of BusinessWeek, trimmed the magazine's staff by 130 people two weeks ago, many well-known columnists were among those let go. But the idea that Bloomberg is looking to remove all of the big name writers from BusinessWeek's pages [...]
PRNewser: The new FTC guidelines go into effect tomorrow, but don't expect social media campaigns to subside, especially during the holiday season.
TVNewser: The Nieman Foundation has set up a new fellowship for business journalists, thanks to a nearly $1 million grant from the Donald W. Reynolds foundation.
Financial' [...]
Here Media, which publishes The Advocate and Out today announced that it was promoting Jon Barrett, editor-in-chief of The Advocate and Advocate.com, to editorial director of the newly created Advocate Group, which will now oversee all of the magazine's print, [...]
Here Media, which publishes The Advocate and Out today announced that it was promoting Jon Barrett, editor-in-chief of The Advocate and Advocate.com, to editorial director of the newly created Advocate Group, which will now oversee all of the magazine's print, [...]
When Condé Nast folded Gourmet magazine along with three other titles two months ago, there was a little bit of consolation for the award-winning food title: It wasn't completely disappearing, but would be folded into Epicurious.com, one of Condé Nast Digital's Web entities.' [...]
Multimedia company Radio One announced today that it is suspending publication of its bi-monthly magazine Giant, while launching the Web site GIANTLife.com in order to "super-serve a highly underserved audience" of affluent African Americans ages 21 to 34. Radio One acquired Giant [...]
Although we have a week before the deadline for the http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/the_revolving_door/memo_times_to_layoff_100_newsroom_staffers_140594.asp">voluntary buyouts at The New York Times, some information about who is planning to take the deals are already starting to leak out.
Michael Calderone at Politico reports today that Washington," [...]
PBS is making some big changes to its powerhouse "NewsHour" program. Starting December 7, the show will no longer be "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer", but "PBS NewsHour", though longtime host Jim Lehrer will stay on with the show as an executive producer.
But the [...]
Mediabistro.com already brings you exclusive news and interviews, but we thought we could do better. So in our new weekly video series, Media Beat, we'll speak with the biggest names in media for an intimate sit-down about their careers and the latest happenings in the business.
It's only fitting that we [...]
Writing as a "career" isn't easy, in part due to the fact that no company will let you treat it like one. Journalism, whether it be for an online publication or traditional print media, is no longer considered a full-time job, even when it is. From freelancers' [...]
Nieman Journalism Lab assistant editor Zachary Seward revealed on Twitter today that he is leaving the Harvard-based journalism blog to join WSJ.com in New York.
The Wall Street Journal looks to be one of the few media outlets currently bringing on new [...]
The Tiger Woods car crash and scandal was the biggest news on today's mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast. Hosts Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven were shocked by the amount of coverage the event has received since the weekend, [...]
Page Six reports today that Andrew Fox, whose company Track Entertainment operates nightlife directory Clubplanet.com, is predicting the death lad mag Maxim, unless its publishers go quietly.
According to the gossip column, Fox has contacted Maxim's majority stake holder, private equity fund Cerberus, [...]
No one ever said reporting on the financial markets was easy, but the job doesn't often claim lives.
So over the long holiday weekend, members of the financial press were shocked to learn that Mark Pittman, the Bloomberg News reporter who predicted the collapse of the' [...]
The big news right before Thanksgiving turned us all into sleepy zombies was Rupert Murdoch's plans to take all his News Corp. and Dow Jones business off of Google's search engines, which were stealing all his lucky charms content.
Murdoch was so angry [...]
It's a treat to return from the long holiday weekend to a stirring and heartfelt exposition of the world of media in New York today, courtesy of New York Times media columnist David Carr.
In his column today, Carr sums up the feeling [...]
