Gawker: The New York Post will layoff ten people in its next round of cuts, a tipster says.
Silicon Alley Insider: College Humor's Ricky Van Veen has hired Anna Wintour's daughter Bee Shaffer as his assistant at his new venture, Notional.
Reuters: Australian freelance photojournalist [...]
• Google-owned blog Hot Girls removed their racist picture of Michelle Obama, though it still shows up in a Google search. -WebNewser
• You can now buy books you read about in The Washington Post with their new direct link system to Amazon.com -[...]
Sam Zell is not going to be having the greatest Thanksgiving this year: not only has The New York Times enlisted some of his former Tribune Company employees to write the paper's new Chicago edition, but the newspaper publisher's request for an [...]
Hearst Corp. may not be having its annual Christmas gala for the second year in the row, but the company is still doing relatively well compared to the rest of the industry.
While layoffs plague rivals like Time Inc. and Condé Nast, Hearst is in [...]
Looks like the fact checkers at The New York Post may have taken off early for the Thanksgiving holiday.
Today's paper features a headline about former "American Idol" contestant Adam Lambert and his scandalous "Good Morning America" concert cancellation and shift to CBS but, as [...]
According to a new study, the field of journalism is one of the most stressful jobs in the world, right after surgeon and real-estate agent, and we don't have to tell you that this profession gets less recognition and appreciation than the latter. That's why whenever' [...]
Mediabistro has scored an interview with Gayle King just days after her best friend Oprah Winfrey announced plans to leave her broadcast television talk show behind in 2011. "Oprah shared her thoughts with people she trusts, but at the end of the day," [...]
If you're among the hundreds of people cut from media jobs this fall, take inspiration from the story of Isobella Jade. The petite model wrote a memoir while standing in heels in the Apple store in SoHo, then self-promoted the heck out of it until she' [...]
Time Inc. slashed a number of jobs yesterday as part of its goal to cut its budget for next year. Among the casualties was quarterly spin-off magazine InStyle Weddings, which was shuttered, costing around nine people their jobs. But the carnage didn't stop' [...]
Let the pre-Thanksgiving bad news dump continue.
Washington Post editor Marcus Brauchli sent a memo to staffers late yesterday announcing that the paper was shutting down national bureaus in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago at the end of the year. Three news aides [...]
FishbowlDC: Meet the new FishbowlDC editor, former gossip columnist at The Hill, Betsy Rothstein.
Bloomberg: Some newspaper publishers, including Tribune Co., E.W. Scripps Co. and MediaNews Group, plan to charge Sunday prices for their Thanksgiving papers.
Variety: Disney Channel Latin America executive Carolina [...]
It's not quite the media bailout some of us were hoping for, but the State Department is asking magazines for their help with holiday decor.
Today, Nina Link of the Magazine Publishers of America stood with State Protocol Ambassador Capricia Penavic Marshall and announced that [...]
When false reports of the deaths of Lady Gaga or Jeff Goldblum get blasted all over Twitter, it becomes a trend piece in The New York Times. "The Internet Who Cried Wolf" serves as a gentle reminder that not everything you [...]
On a day when layoffs are hitting across the company, Time Inc. has decided to shutter its InStyle wedding spin-off.
The last issue of InStyle Weddings, a quarterly that launched as a special issue in 2000, will be on newsstands on December [...]
Two weeks ago, news leaked that Playboy Enterprises was in talks to sell their holdings to London Fog owner Iconix Brand Group Inc. Hugh Hefner's publishing empire's stock has fallen drastically in the last five years, [...]
One month after officially filing charges against its president, Dan Totten, The Boston Globe's biggest union, the Boston Newspaper Guild, has turned in a petition signed by nearly 150 members seeking to oust Totten. The union prez is set to appear before a union [...]
After weeks of speculation over how long the layoffs would stretch out at Time Inc., FishbowlNY has heard that another round of cuts is underway right now at the Time Warner-owned magazine publisher.
A Time Inc. spokesperson confirmed that layoffs were taking [...]
Other media companies are looking to follow the lead of Rupert Murdoch-owned News Corp., which has been in talks with Microsoft to feature its content exclusively on its Bing search engine, thus removing links to its news stories from Google.
Just one week after launching celebrity and style gossip blog HollywoodLife.com under Bonnie Fuller, senior reporter Corynne Steindler took a few minutes to join the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast with host Jason Boog of GalleyCat and guest host Joe [...]
Sometimes it seems like media companies are so focused on launching mobile applications in the popular iPhone format that they forget that other types of smartphones exist. It may be surprising that The New York Times has never had an application for BlackBerry smartphones before today, [...]
Last night The New York Observer broke the news that Time Inc. executive vice president John Squires is leaving the financially troubled institution to work on a new digital media project with some of the biggest titles in magazine publishing...including some of Time's' [...]
• Carl Kassel retires from NPR after 30 years as the voice of "Morning Edition." - TVNewser
• Time Publishing unloaded Governing magazine to e.Republic., leaving Time with zero Washington holdings - FishbowlDC
• Wikipedia's obsessive chroniclers no longer cool with being [...]
WebNewser: BNO News is launching a subscription-only newswire next year, and its first client is MSNBC.com.
AgencySpy: Meet the new AOL: Aol.
GalleyCat: Now you can immortalize your tweets in print.
New York Times: A number of media companies have posted World War II-era Britain-inspired signs telling [...]
The nonprofit Community Service Society of New York is launching a journalism experiment, by buying investigative public policy publication City Limits for $200,000.
CSS plans to retain the title's current staff and name, and will invest $1 million into it, in the hopes of spinning [...]
When Oprah Winfrey's talk show leaves broadcast television in 2011, the magazine that bears her name, Hearst's O, The Oprah Magazine will lose an important cross-promotional tool. But, the media company is not worried about that just yet, instead focusing on [...]
If you just so happen to have a funny story of political fiction knocking around your hard drive, we have just the contest for you.
Following their political fiction package in this week's issue -- published to coincide with Sarah Palin's questionably factual memoir -- New [...]
"Can we take a strategy to build a political candidate and apply it to a magazine like Vogue?" posited Tom Florio, publishing director for the fashion title and other Condé Nast pubs, in today's Wall Street Journal.
The strategy in question would be [...]
Here's some early holiday cheer for the magazine industry: Rodale Inc., which holds such fitness titles as Men's Health, Runner's World and Bicycling magazine, has just hired one of its freelance contributors as fitness editor for Prevention magazine.
Jessica Cassity has [...]
Five McClatchy Co. newspapers, The Sacramento Bee in California, North Carolina's Charlotte Observer, The Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, The Anchorage Daily News in Alaska and The News & Observer in Raleigh, N.C., are now available on the Kindle.
Two weeks ago, Rupert Murdoch announced that he would be taking content from his News Corp entities like The Wall Street Journal and The New York Post off of Google's search engines, ostensibly because the man doesn't know jack about the' [...]
It's the start of a short week, and the promise of turkey is making it difficult for us to concentrate on today's media news. Thankfully, Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven, hosts of the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu, are not [...]
After undertaking layoffs last week, BusinessWeek is now facing a daunting future as it rebuilds and repurposes itself under Bloomberg LP's leadership. And as departing tech writer Stephen Baker points out, it looks like the company's library is trying to have [...]
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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 [...]
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" [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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" [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
"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 [...]
"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 [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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' [...]
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,
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 [...]
Folio: Mr. Magazine names his most notable magazine launches of the year with Food Network Magazine taking the top prize. Other noted launches include Afar, Prestige and another food mag Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade.
New York Observer: New York Times writer Jodi Kantor used [...]
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 [...]
— 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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' [...]
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), [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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,' [...]
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' [...]
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 [...]
Wall Street Journal: Rupert Murdoch and Carlos Slim told a Wall Street Journal conference that they don't regret their investments in newspapers.
BayNewser: YouTube Direct, a new method for news organizations like The Huffington Post, NPR and Politico to manage video submissions by readers,
Newsweek's cover story on Sarah Palin -- and the accompanying cover photo -- raised a lot of eyebrows this week, including that of the former Alaskan governor herself on her Facebook page. The cover took a picture of Palin from an old [...]
Over the weekend, rumors started swirling about the possible closure of Newsweek-owned Budget Travel. Thankfully, we learned yesterday that the magazine is safe. But we wondered, if the pub was not going out of business, what was the source of the [...]
With the mockumentary genre basically dominating television comedies in the last five years ("The Office," "Parks and Recreation," and "Summer Heights High") it's easy to forget the original source of these were British television shows that followed people around their jobs for a year and let you [...]
The New York Times reports that police raided the paper's printing plant in Queens this morning as part of a corruption investigation. The offices of The New York Daily News, The New York Post and Spanish-language newspaper El Diario were also searched [...]
Yesterday, we were worried by rumors that there might be a bed bug infestation at Air America's New York offices. But today, the Web site's Really? blog confirms that the media company is in the clear.
Thanks to a visit from a bed bug-sniffing [...]
At first we thought this may have been news about The New York Times and publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. planning to build a pay wall for his newspaper's Web site, but apparently they are catching pay wall fever across the sea, too. The Times, [...]
Our sister blog WebNewser reports that Slate.com spin-off Double X, which just launched in May, is folding into its parent Web site and becoming a separate section instead of a separate site.
Founders Hanna Rosin and Emily Bazelon said they now hope [...]
Rumors of more layoffs at the Associated Press have been swirling for a number of weeks, as the news organization moves towards its goal of reducing its global payroll by 10 percent.
After buyouts and additional layoffs during the year, we were [...]
We've been hearing for months now about how Bonnie Fuller, formerly of Star and Us Weekly, was planning a media comeback with her new gossip blog HollywoodLife.com, poaching Corrynne Steindler from Page Six and Laura Schreffler from New York' [...]
It seems like there's only bad news in the media world these days. But this morning on the mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu, FishbowlNY editor Amanda Ernst and hosts Jason Boog of GalleyCat and AgencySpy's Matt Van Hoven only had good things to [...]
This morning, Bloomberg LP named Time magazine's deputy managing editor Josh Tyrangiel as the next editor of the recently acquired BusinessWeek.
Tyrangiel, who was also the managing editor of Time.com, was instrumental in the recent relaunch of the Web site. He will' [...]
WebNewser: Time.com launched technology, entertainment, culture and games channel Techland.
AgencySpy: Another Time Inc. story: as part of its yearlong Assignment Detroit project, Time is sponsoring a contest in which five Michigan-based ad agencies are competing for a chance to market the Motor City to young people.
New [...]
A week after Newsweek cut a dozen editorial staffers, The New York Times has profiled the newly revamped weekly pub.
The big question on everyone's minds seems to be whether or not the redesign and rate base cut that was [...]
With Meredith Corporation publications like Better Homes and Gardens and Family Circle perhaps being the only magazines increasing ad pages this year, is it any surprise that other home and cooking titles are looking to increase in the same way?
Earlier today, we reported on rumors that Budget Travel may be closing up shop. Turns out, those rumors were just that, a Newsweek spokesman tells FishbowlNY.
"Budget Travel is not shutting down nor is it laying off staff," Newsweek spokesman Frank J. [...]
Window Media LLC -- publisher of such gay and lesbian-friendly titles as The Washington Blade, Genre Magazine and Southern Voice -- has shut down today, according to our sister site FishbowlDC.
Not only did publication cease today across Window titles, but employees [...]
Vintage magazine hopes to inspire readers to remember a time when high fashion wasn't about cutting corners. Inspired by the short-lived Flair magazine (founded by Fleur Cowles) Vintage's founder Ivy Baer Sherman hopes to recreate a mingling of "style and content" with Vintage, which' [...]
