Live blog of the live blogs: How tech media is covering the Apple Watch today

What Super Bowl Sunday is to ESPN, today is to the tech publishing world. For today, Apple will unveil (for the second time) its Internet-enabled “smartwatch,” appropriately dubbed the Apple Watch. Which means that every tech publication of note is live-blogging what is, despite the oversized fanfare, just a press conference. An Apple product announcement […] The post Live blog of the live blogs: How tech media is covering the Apple Watch today appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at 'Digiday'

[ Digiday | 2015-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with: #apple watch #live blog #appropriately dubbed #press conference

Other Publishing stories related to: 'Live blog of the live blogs: How tech media is covering the Apple Watch today'

Why Self-Published Book Covers Are Better Than You Think

CompletelyNovel's 'Lord of the Book Covers' competition revealed many indie authors are using the same professional designers as traditional houses. The post Why Self-Published Book Covers Are Better Than You Think appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #book covers #competition revealed #indie authors #traditional houses

Meet Ad Age's 2015 Media Mavens

One honoree on our annual Media Mavens list markets cord cutting to millennials while taking a paycheck from a cord company -- well, a satellite company, but you get the idea. Another uses the data in Walmart's vaults to run a media-buying platform that informs hundreds of other advertisers'... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #facebook executive #content directly #shake things

Nexstar Makes Unsolicited $4.1 Billion Offer for Media General

Not so fast, Meredith Corp. Three weeks after the magazine publisher and TV station owner Media General Inc. announced a $2.4 billion merger, Nexstar Broadcasting Group Inc. has swooped in with an unsolicited offer for Media General. Nexstar's proposal sweetens the deal for Media General... Continue reading at AdWeek

[ AdWeek | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #family circle #print publications #berkshire hathaway #lin media

Nexstar Attempts to Disrupt Meredith Deal with Bid for Media General

Proposal outlines a plan to create a ‘pure-play’ broadcast company, without ‘significant exposure to publishing.’ The post Nexstar Attempts to Disrupt Meredith Deal with Bid for Media General appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #media general

Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, September 20, 2015

The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended September 20, 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #bestselling ibooks

You can soon watch Netflix and Hulu in virtual reality — sort of

Netflix and Hulu are among the major media companies that are taking a dive into virtual reality. Today, Facebook-owned Oculus announced that it's teaming up with the two streaming sites and other media publishers to create VR experiences for its upcoming Samsung headset that's priced at $99.... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-09-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #virtual reality #streaming sites #media publishers

Advertising Today: A Kinder, Gentler Place?

When I started in advertising, there was no guarantee that your job would still be yours after maternity leave. No law protected you against sexual harassment.It was 1975, and my first job after graduating Phi Beta Kappa magna cum laude from Smith College was as a secretary at a prestigious... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-09-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #york office #feel comfortable #work hard

Crowdfunding Journalism to Confront the Media Industry's 'Huge Problem'

There&rsquo;s a huge problem at the moment in journalism and the publishing industry, which is that no journalism or media company has figured out how to actually fund their content in this new age of the Internet. The big reason is that newspape ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #media industry #huge problem #publishing industry #media company #big reason

Hearst Invests $21 Million in Pop-Culture Network Complex Media

Hearst has made another bet on an emerging pop-culture brand, investing $21 million in Complex Media, a digital-media company that operates websites devoted to music, fashion, food and movies.Hearst, the publisher of Cosmopolitan and Esquire magazines, last year acquired a 25% stake in... Continue reading at Advertising Age

[ Advertising Age | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #statement tuesday #media companies #strong brands #cable networks

iOS9 and the iPad Pro: what the latest Apple event means for marketing

Apple drives changes in behaviour like nobody else. What might the key announcements from the event mean for the ad industry?Like many Apple events before it, September’s event didn’t introduce any new technologies or products, but that’s not to say what was announced isn’t worth... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #apple doesn #ipad pro #ad industry #worth investigating #innovative companies #mobile adblocking

Facebook videos have fleeting lives

When a brand uploads a new video to Facebook, 94 percent of views it generates in the following week happen on that video, says Visible Measures. The stat shows that while video is booming on Facebook, it’s still difficult for brands and publishers to get people to watch their entire library,... Continue reading at Digiday

[ Digiday | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #facebook videos #visible measures #entire library #popular videos

Apple iBooks Category Bestsellers, September 13, 2015

The bestselling iBooks in mystery, romance, sci-fi, biography, fiction, and more for the week ended September 13, 2015. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #bestselling ibooks

Will the Supreme Court Take Apple’s E-Book Appeal?

Apple attorneys confirmed that they will seek a Supreme Court review of the 2013 verdict finding the company liable for price-fixing, but it's no lock the court will hear the case. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #supreme court #e-book appeal #company liable

Axel Springer sells off Russian media assets to comply with new law

German publisher joins other media companies faced by 20% ownership limitThe German media group Axel Springer has sold off its media assets in Russia to Artcom Media, a division of the Russian-based publishing group ACMG run by Alexander Fedotov. The assets include the Russian editions of Forbes... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #media assets

Apple is taking its ebook price-fixing fight to the Supreme Court

Apple's long-running court battle over manipulating the pricing of ebooks is getting even more dramatic. Next stop, the Supreme Court, Fortune reports. Back in June, Apple failed to get a Manhattan appeals court to overturn a 2014 ruling that woul... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2015-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #supreme court

Lucia Berlin and a Tale of Two Book Covers

Picador designer Justine Anweiler wrote about how she went about creating the cover for the UK edition of Lucia Berlin's novel, A Manual for Cleaning Women. The post Lucia Berlin and a Tale of Two Book Covers appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives

[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #lucia berlin #book covers #cleaning women

How Bloomberg Media Plans to Win in the Crowded Events Business

Publishers are jumping into events as a way to generate a new source of revenue as traditional advertising becomes harder to come by. But inevitably, as more players pile into this space, it becomes harder to stand out. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-09-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #traditional advertising

PW Star Watch 2015

PW is proud to announce the names of the 40 honorees (including four finalists and one superstar) of its inaugural Star Watch program, which recognizes young publishing professionals who have distinguished themselves as future leaders of the industry. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-11 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #future leaders