Welcome to the latest edition of Ad Age Publisher’s Brief, our roundup of news from the world of content producers across digital and print. Got a tip? Send it our way. Joining us late? Here’s the previous edition. Food for thought: Back in April, The New York Times announced that it would be launching a new two-day fall event called The New York Times Food Festival, featuring the paper’s chief food editor Sam Sifton and fellow Times foodies including Melissa Clark, Kim Severson and Pete Wells. The goal: to “bring together the food world’s leading chefs, restaurateurs and industry thought leaders to deliver a one-of-a-kind culinary experience for consumers across New York City.” Today, it got real: The Times is putting tickets up for sale for everything from its October 5-6 takeover of Manhattan’s Bryant Park, featuring food stands from Frankies Spuntino, Frenchette, Superiority Burger and more ($25 for a one-day pass), to lectures at TheTimesCenter with titles such as “The Secret Sauce of Success” and “Bourdain and Beyond” ($45 each). When the paper tentatively announced the event in the spring, Sebastian Tomich, the global head of advertising and marketing solutions at the paper, said, “We have a broad ambition to create festivals that showcase our editorial leadership and innovative way of bringing stories to life with a variety of topics”—and food was the “obvious choice” for the first festival. Mastercard was announced as the presenting sponsor. Now the event has... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-07-11 19:24:56 UTC ]
Indie David Fickling Books has appointed Liz Cross as publishing director following her departure from Oxford University Press. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-28 15:06:29 UTC ]
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Little, Brown has promoted editorial director Ailah Ahmed to the role of publishing director following her "outstanding publishing and acquiring in 2018 and 2019". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-24 17:29:20 UTC ]
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Yesterday morning, Gordon Sondland, the Trump donor turned US ambassador to the European Union, gave explosive testimony in the impeachment inquiry—directly tying the president and his top allies, including Mikes Pence and Pompeo, to the Ukraine scandal. Comparisons to John Dean’s testimony that... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-11-21 12:58:24 UTC ]
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Through the Google News Initiative Subscriptions Lab, ten local media organizations have been testing, learning and sharing findings related to Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-11-20 22:09:59 UTC ]
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Last Monday, staff at two dozen subsidiaries of the Hearst Magazines media conglomerate announced their intention to unionize with the Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-11-20 18:30:06 UTC ]
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Even compared to this year’s other brutal weeks for American journalism, the past seven days have been particularly turbulent. Last Wednesday, the publishing giant McClatchy reported severe liquidity problems along with its third-quarter results; its share price has since collapsed from $2.28 to... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-11-20 13:10:34 UTC ]
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After Hearst Connecticut Media reported on a lawsuit alleging past sexual abuse at the Boys & Girls club in Greenwich, Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-11-15 08:00:25 UTC ]
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Two months into life behind a digital paywall, The Atlantic says it sold "record numbers" of subscriptions in both September and October, doubling the amount of sales originally forecast (though it declined to share specific figures). Today, the magazine unveiled what it hopes will be an... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-11-12 19:44:42 UTC ]
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In May, Jim Waterson, media editor at The Guardian, reported that Lionel Barber, the editor of the Financial Times, was on the way out, and that the search was on for his replacement. In the summer, when Amber A’Lee Frost, who was interviewing Barber for CJR, mentioned that he was retiring,... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-11-12 13:03:08 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_174829" align="alignright" width="150"] Rachel Kay[/caption] On Wednesday, Hearst announced the hiring of Rachel Kay as vice president of talent, a newly created role that will advance talent recruiting programs across the company. Reporting directly to Hearst COO Mark... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-11-07 21:17:21 UTC ]
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Scrappy isn’t necessarily a word you’d use to describe a publishing company that houses the two best-selling titles on U.S. newsstands, but at Bauer Media Group USA, the company’s mindset is exactly that. Since Steven Kotok joined the organization as CEO in 2016, he has divested its entire... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-11-06 16:53:12 UTC ]
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Day two of the Folio: Show opened with another panel of industry veterans sharing insights on leveraging content for revenue, moderated by Christa Carone, president of Group Nine Media. Eric Schurenberg, CEO of Mansueto Ventures, the parent company of Inc. and Fast Company, shared intel on how... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-10-31 21:34:33 UTC ]
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Simon and Schuster publishing director Iain MacGregor is joining the Headline non-fiction team as publisher, it has been announced. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-31 03:42:30 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device; sign up... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-25 10:25:54 UTC ]
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Facebook opened a news hub today, where it pays publishers to host their headlines and drive visitors to their websites as a way to make amends with the industry that has been battered by the rise of the social network and other platforms. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is due to host media partners at an... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-25 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Like they did with Snapchat in previous years, publishers are still figuring out what works and what doesn't on this latest hot new app. The post What publishers like BuzzFeed, Hearst and Vice are learning from being on TikTok appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-10-23 04:01:04 UTC ]
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Tom Penn, publishing director at Penguin Press, has acquired Rebel Citizen: A History of Black Women Living, Loving and Resisting by feminist historian Jade Bentil. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-20 15:48:26 UTC ]
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Subscribe to us on iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Stitcher, Google Play, iHeartRadio and Pandora too. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend! Back in 2008, Jessica Pels was doing exactly what any ambitious, media-obsessed NYU grad should do: interning at A-list publications like... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-17 09:00:00 UTC ]
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New York City-based Hearst Magazines has entered into a multiyear license agreement with Crain Communications Inc. to operate Autoweek, a brand in the Detroit-based publishing company's portfolio. The deal is effective immediately, according to a Tuesday news release. Financial terms were not... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-15 21:53:10 UTC ]
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After nearly two years of ongoing scrutiny related to the alleged activities of its CEO, David Pecker, and chief content officer, Dylan Howard, the company now known as American Media, LLC is moving on to life after The National Enquirer, the cornerstone upon which Pecker built his tabloid... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2019-10-15 20:27:22 UTC ]
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