Boucher may have bought one of the country’s biggest news brands for NZ$1, but she wants journalists to eventually have a stake in the company When Sinead Boucher started out in journalism her editors weren’t too bothered if she filed a story each day. Such was the number of journalists on the payroll at The Press in Christchurch, and such was the money fuelling the industry.Fast-forward 28 years and the paper, like all other Stuff mastheads, teeters on the verge of viability, and the brand has been involved in an ugly buyout process, shedding regional staff, scaling back original content and homogenising under the brand name in an attempt to survive the print media crisis. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2020-06-23 20:00:01 UTC ]
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Pondr hopes to raise at least $10 million this year and has already netted at least $1 million from Cargill heirs Whitney and Betty Macmillan. Continue reading at Silicon Valley Business Journal
[ Silicon Valley Business Journal | 2020-04-30 09:00:00 UTC ]
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David Lipson, third-generation owner of Boston and Philadelphia magazine publisher Metro Corp., is stepping down as CEO and bringing in management consultant Nick Fischer to run the company through the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, staffers learned this week. Fischer currently serves as... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-29 22:35:01 UTC ]
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In this live episode of Ad Age Remotely, Condé Nast's chief revenue officer discusses how the publishing giant is navigating managing costs and ad revenue. Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2020-04-29 22:14:12 UTC ]
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Outside of New Zealand and “world literature” classrooms, New Zealand literature is not widely known. Aside from a few big-name writers of the earlier 20th century (think Katherine Mansfield) and a handful of international literary award winners (such as Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton), the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-29 08:49:21 UTC ]
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The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating a planned shift from print to digital at Michigan-based BNP Media, where management has informed staffers that the company will be phasing out the print editions of all of its controlled-circulation trade magazines by the end of July. The... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-28 15:18:48 UTC ]
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If it wasn’t already obvious that the media industry was in dire straits before the coronavirus came along, it has become abundantly obvious now. Every day, it seems, news outlets large and small are announcing waves of furloughs, salary cuts, and layoffs for significant numbers of their... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-04-24 11:57:00 UTC ]
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'Always Home' author Fanny Singer worries more about running out of garlic than toilet paper. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-22 22:32:48 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_180020" align="alignright" width="150"] Jim Rich[/caption] G/O Media announced Wednesday that Deadspin editor-in-chief Jim Rich has been promoted to editorial director across the company's entire portfolio, which also includes sites like The A.V. Club, Gizmodo, Kotaku,... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-22 19:47:03 UTC ]
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The New York Comic Con has become a certifiable blockbuster show, with more than 200,000 tickets sold. The event is centered in the Javits Center but also includes Madison Square Garden and the... To view the full story, click the title link. Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2020-04-21 18:29:44 UTC ]
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It’s hard to imagine an industry more poorly prepared for the arrival of a global pandemic than the media business. Even before “coronavirus” became a household word, the industry was already reeling from a series of body blows, most of them delivered by Google and Facebook and their dominance... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-04-20 11:45:00 UTC ]
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Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers, winner of the Times Book Prize in history, spent a decade on "They Were Her Property," about women slave owners. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-17 15:26:32 UTC ]
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On Monday, Joshua A. Bickel, on assignment for the Columbus Dispatch, took a photo that went viral. Bickel was in the Ohio statehouse, where he’d been sent, in the absence of a furloughed colleague, to film a briefing by Mike DeWine, the governor. His photo captured a group of protesters,... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-04-17 12:00:34 UTC ]
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The runaway hit cookbook Pinch of Nom was the bestseller in Scotland in 2019, after seeing off Glaswegian comic Billy Connolly Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-17 03:27:48 UTC ]
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These days, everything feels a little bit bleaker than usual. But one thing that genuinely made me smile as I was panic scrolling last week? The clever designs of Read Books, Serve Looks, otherwise known as Thom Stead (Instagram bio: “quarantined gay serving book inspired looks”), who recreates... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2020-04-16 16:30:31 UTC ]
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From escapist fantasy fans to romance enthusiasts, readers are turning to a variety of books while stuck at home. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-04-16 13:53:21 UTC ]
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Taylor & Francis owner Informa has launched an issue of shares worth 19.9% of its existing capital as the coronavirus pandemic hits its events business. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-04-15 15:21:35 UTC ]
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Modern Luxury Media, publisher of more than 40 high-end regional lifestyle magazines, has furloughed a significant number of staffers across the company through at least the end of June as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. CEO Michael Dickey—who noted that he and other executives are forgoing... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-04-14 18:53:14 UTC ]
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A book club for people who don't like book clubs, founded in 2012 in San Francisco and now boasting six chapters in L.A. County, has moved online. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-10 14:00:07 UTC ]
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Over the cool beats of a rapper's rhythm, Wes Tank is inspiring his YouTube followers with a new twist on children's book classics. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-04-09 17:56:13 UTC ]
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Over the cool beats of a rapper's rhythm, Wes Tank is inspiring his YouTube followers with a new twist on children's book classics. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-04-09 17:56:13 UTC ]
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