The New York Times Co. named former BBC director general Mark Thompson as its new CEO earlier this week, and now comes word that he will receive a pay package totaling as much as $10.5 million, including an annual salary of $1 million, according to Bloomberg News. Mr. Thompson, who was previously the British Broadcasting Corp.'s director general, can make as much as $4.5 million from his signing bonus, $2 million in annual incentives and $3 million in long-term incentives, Bloomberg News reported. The 161-year-old publisher, faced with declining advertising revenue from its print editions, has been trying to boost revenue from digital products. Last year, it began charging for online access to The New York Times and The Boston Globe newspapers. The company hopes Mr. Thompson can help revive sales growth and accelerate a shift to the Internet, Bloomberg News said. The new pay package is a raise for Mr. Thompson, who had reportedly received $976,000 in total compensation for his most recent year at the BBC. Bloomberg News contributed to this article. Continue reading at 'Crains New York'
[ Crains New York | 2012-08-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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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
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Seven of the ten most challenged books of 2014 earned starred reviews from PW. Here they are. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Publisher Chicken House is asking teenagers to upload videos onto YouTube about the books they would like to persuade other people to read to win the chance to be a judge on the 2016 Times/Chicken House Children’s Fiction Competition Entrants must be aged between 14 and 18 and can apply to take... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Part MC, part provocateur, Anton will facilitate a special program for the publishing C-suite. The post Hanley Wood Vice Chairman Frank Anton Named to Lead Folio: CEO Summit appeared first on Folio:. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2015-09-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In January, Jack Griffin, the chief executive of Tribune Publishing Company, took his senior management team to visit The Los Angeles Times, the jewel in his company’s portfolio of newspapers. At a reception at the newspaper, an ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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This most fundamental of principles is under attack – from over-zealous law making, online witch hunts, and a profit-driven media offensive on the BBCIn our troubled and insecure environment, Britain has accumulated laws which curtail freedom of expression – in the name of national security and... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-09-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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On most commercial airlines, onboard Wi-Fi is only fast enough to check your email or update your Facebook status. Try to stream a movie and you may find your laptop buffering from Burbank to Phoenix. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
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This summer, two years after the merger of Penguin Canada and Random House of Canada was finalized in July 2013, more than 200 employees left the publishers’ longtime separate headquarters and moved into a new Front Street office in downtown Toronto. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-09-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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While many cartoonists can be defined by a singular book or series, collections of their shorter, sometimes lesser-known works can more intimately reflect their artistic sensibilities. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Amy Stewart's tricks of the trade: Google Ngram Viewer, Evernote, Ancestry, and more. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Gaylord Shaw, a renowned journalist who broke the news of Richard Nixon's resignation and won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1978 for the Los Angeles Times, has died at age 73. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2015-09-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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‘I am not departing by choice’ – former investment banker hired a year ago by Tribune Publishing announces departure on Facebook, saying email was cut off Tribune Publishing Company has fired the publisher of the Los Angeles Times after little more than a year on the job.Tribune gave no public... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-09-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Photographer Amanda Jones talks to Co.Create about her book, Dog Years, in which she revisits her canine photo subjects after 12 years.A parody video last year called Cathood teased the idea of Richard Linklater's real-time aging epic Boyhood, if it were about pets. A new coffee table book... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jay Keefe wrote a memoir about recovering from alcoholism and realizes, upon publication, that it a huge personal risk it was, albeit one with rewards. The post Exposing Yourself As a First-Time Author appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite being set in the 1980s, David Simon’s new show seems spookily topical. It’s not the only TV series that has turned up in the right place at the right time...David Simon’s new series Show Me a Hero provides everything you might expect from a TV-maker with The Wire, Homicide: Life on the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From user-made clips to content from big media properties, video is all over Facebook (and more people than ever are using the social network). Along with that trend comes the problem of piracy: plenty of video publishers are seeing their work dist... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2015-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The sharp rise in mobile readership has forced publishers to ask themselves hard questions about their site performance. Joining the likes of GQ and The Washington Post, Vox Media has taken a hard look at its page load time, cutting it in half to an average of 11.5 seconds. Vox did this by... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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From virtual reality films to self-published books, the entertainment world is full of exciting new ideas. The post 6 Rules for Making Movies in the VR Age appeared first on WIRED. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2015-08-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Those lingering few who think mobile's not a big deal need only look to a new study from the Association of Magazine Media, which found 26 percent of magazines' total readership comes from smartphones and tablets. The MPA's monthly Magazine Media 360° report dissected publishers' online traffic... Continue reading at AdWeek
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Paper says use of Mail Online article was ‘at odds’ with its ‘journalistic standards’Mario Vargas Llosa, the Nobel prize-winning author, has slammed the New York Times for publishing what he called “slanderous and perfidious” gossip that, it transpired, was culled from the Daily Mail’s... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-08-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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