Since January, when Marty Baron announced his retirement as editor of the Washington Post, the media beat has hummed with speculation about his replacement: Would it be an internal candidate? Or one of a bevy of editors from the New York Times? Or Ben Smith? So it was impressive yesterday when the Post appointed someone who hadn’t appeared in the guessing game: Sally Buzbee, the executive editor of the Associated Press. Online, the unexpectedness of the hire sparked a mini-debate as to whether media reporting is bad or not; Nieman Lab’s Hanaa’ Tameez asked why we had “to suffer through so many think pieces that ended up being way off?” Management at the Post certainly maintained a high wall of secrecy around the process, blinding not just outside media reporters but the paper’s own staffers, some of whom, the Daily Beast reported recently, were irked by their lack of insight. At one point, the paper’s union wrote to Fred Ryan, the publisher, requesting input into the decision. “Given the confidential and sensitive nature of the executive editor search,” he replied, “we do not plan to broadly address the search process with employees.” Maybe not so impressive after all. The news of Buzbee’s hire was broken, in the end, by Paul Farhi, a media reporter at the Post. (“I was just telling @farhip that I’m looking forward to finding out who the next executive editor of the Washington Post will be via the bot in our Slack telling us that his story about it published,” Elahe... Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-05-12 12:21:00 UTC ]
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If you're planning some bookish trips for the future, don't miss adding these gorgeous libraries to visit post-pandemic to the list. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-02-22 11:30:00 UTC ]
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Transworld Publishers has acquired Rebuild: How to do Business Better by retail guru Mary Portas, a "visionary toolkit for how to weather the post-pandemic storm in business". Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-18 15:35:50 UTC ]
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Three Oxford-based groups of publishing workers are launching a survey to explore the experience of working from home and how work patterns might change after lockdown. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-02-16 17:30:43 UTC ]
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Canada' Indigo Books and Music saw a 5% drop in revenue, to C$365.4 million, for the quarter ended December 26, compared with the same period last year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Winter Institute aims to empower booksellers as they look ahead to another challenging year. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-02-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
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News Corp reported a decline in its overall revenue and a pretax profit of $497 million for the three months ending in December. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-02-04 23:45:40 UTC ]
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New issue, dedicated to work by current and former prisoners, provokes uproar after it emerges one poet has served time for child pornography offencesThe US’s prestigious Poetry magazine has doubled down on its decision to publish a poem by a convicted sex offender as part of a special edition... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2021-02-03 16:08:52 UTC ]
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A Texas high school parent is attempting to remove STAMPED: RACISM, ANTIRACISM, AND YOU from the school's reading list. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2021-02-03 14:58:45 UTC ]
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Yesterday—after a decade of democratic transition, five years of elected government, and several days of threats, apparent walkbacks, and rumors—Myanmar’s military executed a coup and returned to power. Myawaddy TV, a station owned by the military, announced that Min Aung Hlaing—the army’s... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-02-02 13:37:45 UTC ]
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In this ambitious anthology, short stories sit at various intersections of smolder and technical accomplishment. Continue reading at New Yorker
[ New Yorker | 2021-01-23 11:00:00 UTC ]
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Paul and Stephen Kendrick on how King’s 1960 arrest influenced the presidential campaign. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-22 13:00:00 UTC ]
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A church historian looks at the religious, institutional, and social challenges ahead for Joe Biden—America's second Catholic president—and how they parallel those faced by Pope Francis. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-20 05:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson has reported group sales fell 10% in 2020 in its January trading update, reflecting the continuing impact of Covid. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-19 21:27:03 UTC ]
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The novel, which follows four young people in Ireland, is part of a two-book deal for the best-selling author of “Normal People” and “Conversations With Friends.” Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2021-01-12 14:00:10 UTC ]
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HarperFiction has netted While Justice Sleeps by US politician and lawyer Stacey Abrams, a “powerful” political thriller about a young law clerk who is left to unravel a conspiracy in the heart of Washington. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-11 14:24:23 UTC ]
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Egmont UK's 2019 revenue decreased 8.9% to £37.9m but the publisher had a £369,000 pre-tax profit in the financial year before the book business was bought by HarperCollins, new figures uploaded to Companies House show. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2021-01-08 08:40:13 UTC ]
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Bookshop and Libro.fm, which help independent booksellers sell online, reported huge gains in 2020. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
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In a free 50-page report released this week, three veteran publishing and digital media consultants offer a postmortem on 2020 and a glimpse at what the future holds for publishers, booksellers, libraries and readers. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2021-01-07 05:00:00 UTC ]
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JPL Media announces sale to new publishing group National World for knockdown priceThe media company that owns famous newspapers such as the Scotsman and Yorkshire Post has been sold for just £10m, in a sign of the collapsing value of regional papers.JPI Media announced on Thursday it had been... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2020-12-31 16:33:33 UTC ]
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The announcement today (24th December) that a deal for post-Brexit trade has been struck between the UK and the European Union has been welcomed by the PA. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-24 16:58:27 UTC ]
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