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. Notre Drame: Monday’s devastating fire at Notre-Dame de Paris—or just Notre Dame (sans hyphen), as most news organizations have been styling it—lands on newspaper front pages across the world this morning, including every major New York-based daily (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the New York Post and the Daily News, as seen above), as well as, of course, newspapers across France, such as Paris-based Libération (its coverline, above, translates to “Our Tragedy”). The Guardian (U.K.) has a roundup of the front pages of French and British papers here. A few takes on the 2019 Pulitzers: “Pulitzer Prizes Honor Journalists Under Threat With New Crop Of Winners,” via NPR. “Pulitzer Prizes Focus on Coverage of Trump Finances and Parkland Shooting,” per The New York Times. And “The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes, by the numbers,” via Poynter. Sample stats from the latter: The New York Times, The Washington Post and Reuters tie, each with two wins; The New York Times has racked up the most wins of all time (127); and 14 of the Pulitzer finalists were local news organizations. News+ news: “According to several publishers, Apple News+ is off to a rough start,” writes Digiday’s Max Willens. “Five participating publishers Digiday spoke to detailed a series of early... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2019-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
In the days since Ted Gioia published his essay in the Daily Beast, alleging that music criticism has devolved into lifestyle reporting, with little or no attention paid to how the music itself works, I've been challenged by friends on Facebook to write a “not boring” piece that explains a... Continue reading at Slate
[ Slate | 2014-03-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Text-based Web publishers like Business Insider and Vox Media are trying their hands at video. But some are doing a better job of it than others. The post Digital publishers chase video with mixed results appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2014-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Perhaps it was the result of China landing a spacecraft on the moon, but 2013 was a banner year for science fiction writing in China, says The Daily Beast. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ahdaf Soueif spoke with The Daily Beast about life in Cairo since the uprising as well as its impact on the city’s writers and bookstores. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2014-02-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Digital media is thriving. Online advertising is growing faster than any other medium. The Web is hot. Except for the fact that the Web has had all sorts of growing pains. And major business challenges. And it changes constantly, sometimes quite radically. It's certainly never boring, and... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-12-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newsweek's return to print is the latest development in an odd timeline for the once-storied magazine. It's changed ownership four times, employed four CEOs and had three editors-in-chief since 2010. It's awkward liaise with the Daily Beast and swings between layoffs and hiring flurries add to... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2013-12-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Annual subscriptions to Sullivan's new, independent The Dish blog are pre-selling at $19.95. Andrew Sullivan announced Wednesday, via Twitter, that his soon-to-be-self-published blog has just passed $500,000 in pre-subscription sales. The announcement comes less than a month after... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-02-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For those of you still following the saga of "CondeElevator, the anonymous Twitter account supposedly written by a Conde Nast employee: It's probably not written by Conde editor John Jannuzzi, says the Daily Beast. This update comes a day after the same publication cited "multiple sources"... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2011-08-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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It's long been expected turn out this way, and it's finally happening. NewYorkMag.com's Daily Intel is reporting that The Daily Beast will be retiring the Newsweek.com URL on July 19. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-07-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Newsweek chairman Sydney Harman has died, according to The Daily Beast. He was 93. Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-04-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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