The beleaguered social network has poached editors from Vice magazine, Billboard and RollingStone in the hopes of reinventing itself as an editorial outlet. FastCo.Labs spoke to its VP of creative and content to see if the plan can actually work. With companies from Apple to Spotify jostling for control of the online music marketplace, there'd seem to be little room for the site most known for being crushed by Facebook. But MySpace may have a new trick up its sleeve. The revamped network, which launched publicly last month, includes a section devoted to music discovery, featuring not just news and reviews but also striking photography and even live-streamed performances. To head its editorial operations, MySpace tapped Joseph Patel, previously a producer at Vice, as its vice president of content and creative. He has brought in a staff of longtime editors, including Benjamin Meadows-Ingram, formerly of Billboard, and Monica Herrera, previously at RollingStone. We spoke with Patel about how the company's editorial approach gives it a competitive edge.Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'
[ Fast Company | 2013-07-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Penguin Publishing Group will launch a new imprint, Thesis, a sister imprint to the Portfolio and Sentinel imprints publishing “urgent idea-driven nonfiction.” Bria Sandford and Niki Papadopoulos will oversee the imprint's editorial operations. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Fourteen months after the completion of the Random House–Penguin Group merger, PRH CEO Markus Dohle has created the Penguin Publishing Group, which puts all Penguin adult imprints under Madeline McIntosh, who was named president of the new unit. The move is Dohle’s most aggressive yet in... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Rowman & Littlefield has restructured its Globe Pequot division, integrating most of the backoffice and sales functions and reorganizing the editorial operations. Approximately 28 jobs were eliminated. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Hearst Magazine is moving Country Living's editorial operations to Birmingham, Ala., from its current location in New York, the company said Monday. Current edit staffers, who learned of the news Monday afternoon, will not make the move.Country Living's full-time edit staff in New York is "a... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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The beleaguered social network has poached editors from Vice magazine, Billboard and RollingStone in the hopes of reinventing itself as an editorial outlet. FastCo.Labs spoke to its VP of creative and content to see if the plan can actually work. With companies from Apple to Spotify jostling... Continue reading at Fast Company
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Ten-year-old Black Lawrence Press, an imprint of Dzanc Books, had its editorial approach to publishing contemporary literature and creative nonfiction affirmed last month when the National Endowment of the Arts chose three of its authors to receive 2013 Literature Fellowships. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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The trick to making the Random House/Penguin Group merger work will be to create a publisher that can take advantage of the resources and economies of scale a company with revenue of $4 billion brings and combine that with an editorial approach that emphasizes close cooperation with authors,... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Since AOL bought Huffington Post for $315 million in early March, the controversy has not let up. In an editorial overhaul constructed by HuffPo founder Arianna Huffington (in her new role as head of editorial operations with AOL), AOL laid off hundreds of workers, 300 of those state side. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
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