BuzzFeed News to be shuttered in corporate cost cutting move

Pulitzer Prize winning digital media outlet BuzzFeed News is being shut down as part of a cost-cutting drive by its corporate parent that's shedding about 15% of its entire staff Continue reading at 'ABC News'

[ ABC News | 2023-04-20 23:02:36 UTC ]

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Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 23, 2024

"Russian James Bond" defects, a Latino chef's memoir, a Shakespearian retelling by a Pulitzer Prize winner, and more of today's best book deals Continue reading at Book Riot

[ Book Riot | 2025-03-23 11:30:00 UTC ]
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Book Deals: Week of March 17, 2025

William Morrow picks up a Pulitzer Prize–nominated playwright’s debut novel, Poisoned Pen bags a buzzy psychological thriller, Ten Speed Graphic readies a Rebecca Yarros adaptation, and more in this week’s book deals. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Marc Lore’s Wonder Acquires Tastemade to Build an Advertising Business

Food-delivery service Wonder is adding digital media to its menu with its acquisition of independent media company Tastemade. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but the deal reportedly cost $90 million, according to The Wall Street Journal. The integration of... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2025-03-12 19:49:54 UTC ]
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Martin Scorsese to Adapt Marilynne Robinson’s ‘Home’

The Academy Award–winning director is set to helm the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s 2008 novel as a feature film for Apple, starring Leonardo DiCaprio. Apple also plans to develop the other three novels in Robinson's Gilead series, with Scorsese and Todd Field attached to write, direct, and... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Birmingham podcaster launches digital media business

The founder has provided digital media services for numerous local companies over the years. Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal

[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2025-03-04 23:23:32 UTC ]
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Hiring junior bankers is a battle against AI-written resumes

For junior bankers using AI to help draft their resumes: Recruitment firms are on to you.Words like “robust” and “meticulous” are telltale signs that banking hopefuls have enlisted AI to polish up their resumes, according to Wall Street executive search firms. Other giveaways are overused... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2025-02-26 20:43:18 UTC ]
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What It’s Like to QA Every Super Bowl Ad

My name is Fred Cunha, and I go to every Super Bowl but have never seen the game. For 51 weeks of the year, I serve as vice president of partnerships development at XR Extreme Reach, a role well aligned with my 25-plus years of broadcast and digital media industry... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2025-02-07 11:00:00 UTC ]
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BDG Faces Lawsuit for $2.7M In Unpaid Rent and Damages

The digital media company Bustle Digital Group, which owns editorial titles including Bustle, Nylon, Inverse, and Elite Daily, was sued last week for nearly $3 million in unpaid rent and related damages by the real estate firm Columbia Property Trust. BDG stopped paying... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2025-02-03 17:44:38 UTC ]
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Hearst Taps PMG As Its AOR to Spur Growth in Its Consumer Media Titles

Digital media company Hearst, home to editorial titles including Esquire, Cosmopolitan, and Country Living, named the marketing agency PMG as its agency of record on Tuesday. According to David Carey, its senior vice president of public affairs and communications, it is... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2025-01-30 08:16:11 UTC ]
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Government oversight was the ghost at the feast during this week’s IAB ALM

Speculation over Google’s antitrust travails mounts as the great and the good of digital media converge to discuss conspiracy theories. Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2025-01-28 05:01:00 UTC ]
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‘I won the Pulitzer Prize and I’m busking on a corner’: 3 top artists on the uncertain future of political cartooning

Barry Blitt, Jack Ohman, and Jen Sorensen discuss the promise and many perils of their chosen artform. Editorial cartoons and illustration are fairly niche topics—or so I once thought. On Jan. 3, cartoonist Ann Telnaes published Why I’m quitting the Washington Post on her Substack. It detailed... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2025-01-21 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Google inks a Gemini AI chatbot deal with the Associated Press

The bulk of AP’s business comes from selling its journalism to organizations that use it. Google says its artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini will deliver up-to-date news from the Associated Press in the tech giant’s first such deal with a news publisher.Google announced the deal in a blog... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2025-01-16 15:10:51 UTC ]
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Washington Post cartoonist resigns over paper’s refusal to publish cartoon critical of Jeff Bezos

Pulitzer prize winner Ann Telnaes had drawn a cartoon of the paper’s owner kneeling before Donald TrumpThe Washington Post’s Pulitzer prize-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes has resigned from her position at the newspaper after its refusal to publish a satirical cartoon depicting the... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2025-01-04 15:23:11 UTC ]
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A neurologist explains how these tech habits can optimize brain health and happiness

“The mental garbage we ingest is arguably more harmful than an occasional cheeseburger and fries.” Richard Cytowic is a neurologist, neuropsychologist, and textbook writer. He specializes in metacognition. He is a professor of Neurology at George Washington University. His New York Times... Continue reading at Fast Company

[ Fast Company | 2024-12-28 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Here Are All the Award-Winning Novels of 2024!

Percival Everett nabbed the National Book Award and Samantha Harvey bagged the Booker, but they weren’t the only writers who struck gold this year. Yes, from the Pulitzer to the Nebula, the PEN/Faulkner to the Edgar, here are the winners of the biggest book prizes of 2024. Congratulations to... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2024-12-18 09:57:03 UTC ]
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BuzzFeed Is Shedding Assets. Now It Should Go Private, Experts Say

The digital media company BuzzFeed successfully sold its food property, First We Feast, to a consortium of investors Thursday morning for $82.5 million, effectively solving the short-term financial crunch that it had been facing. But the spin-off still leaves BuzzFeed... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2024-12-12 20:17:14 UTC ]
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