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 ]
For the Record, the former PM’s account of his time in office sold close to 21,000 copies in its first week, behind Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments, which topped 100,000Almost 21,000 people rushed out to buy a copy of David Cameron’s memoir in its first week on sale, placing it second on the... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-09-24 14:00:06 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 daily newsletter. You can also get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Day One of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-24 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Employees at ad agencies, tech companies and brands skipped work today to join the Global Climate Strike, a protest of government and corporate inaction on climate change. Today's strike, scheduled just ahead of the U.N. Climate Action Summit in New York, is the third event in a series of... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-20 22:10:02 UTC ]
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The Nielsen Social Content Ratings measure talent's promotion of television shows across Instagram, Facebook and Twitter, and its data from Instagram just became more robust. Nielsen said in a release that the improvement was made possible by Instagram's recent enabling of creator account... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-09-19 13:30:21 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 daily newsletter. You can also get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Whassup?... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-19 10:00:00 UTC ]
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A rough weekend for three of the NFL’s most celebrated old-school quarterbacks may have long-term implications for the league’s TV partners, as the loss of Ben Roethlisberger, Drew Brees and Eli Manning could cause a shakeup in the Nielsen ratings. No team poses more of a risk than the... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-18 21:56:19 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 daily newsletter. You can also get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Tinder’s... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-18 10:00:00 UTC ]
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Ad Age’s Launch Pad offers brief looks at new products and activations of interest to marketers and media people. Outdoor retailer REI today launched Uncommon Path, a quarterly print magazine, in partnership with HearstMade, the division of Hearst Magazines that produces Airbnb Magazine with... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-17 18:14:21 UTC ]
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Novelist’s return to the dystopia of Gilead sold more than 100,000 copies in hardback in its first week on sale in the UKA hardback copy of Margaret Atwood’s follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, was sold every four seconds in the UK last week, according to sales figures that show... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-09-17 14:57:57 UTC ]
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Marie Claire’s closure highlights print titles’ struggle for survival in the age of online media Another gap is about to appear on your newsagent’s shelf. This week Marie Claire announced the closure of its UK print edition, adding to an expanding list of high-profile titles from NME to FHM that... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-09-14 06:00:58 UTC ]
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Anheuser-Busch InBev is poised to launch Bud Light Seltzer as part of a new product blitz, according to reports from two beer trade publications. Citing sources from the brewer’s distributor meeting this week, Beer Business Daily reported that the brewer was developing a seltzer line extension... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-13 13:12:06 UTC ]
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In a response to most news publishers’ checklist of needs from a digital conduit to their content, News Corp is Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2019-09-12 18:30:12 UTC ]
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Welcome to another edition of Ad Age Sports Media Brief, a weekly roundup of news from every zone of the sports media spray chart, including the latest on broadcast/cable/streaming, sponsorships, endorsements, gambling and tech. The only game in town The NFL, its media partners and their... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-12 15:30:00 UTC ]
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Marie Claire is just the latest titan of women’s media to fall, following Lucky, More!, The Pool and Lenny Letter. Their absence will be keenly feltReaders of women’s magazines have had a rough few years. Every few months another titan falls and today we are mourning the UK print edition of... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-09-11 16:09:38 UTC ]
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Hearst Autos used an old school marketing method this week to tout its new look, with an eye-catching newsstand pop-up plopped in the middle of New York Fashion Week. Execs began rolling out Hearst Autos' new look, which is intended to "simplify" the brand, in June, said chief marketing officer... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-09-11 15:07:03 UTC ]
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Ad Age’s Launch Pad offers brief looks at new products and activations of interest to marketers and media people. At a time when newsstands in New York City are either shrinking or shutting down (and turning into garish vape shops when they do), the media capital of the world just got a... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-10 17:20:34 UTC ]
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Women’s title will continue online and overseas print editions are unaffectedThe UK edition of Marie Claire is to cease publication after 31 years as the monthly women’s title joins a growing list of magazines that have succumbed to the shift to digital reading.A version of the magazine – which... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2019-09-10 11:45:36 UTC ]
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Jamie Oliver’s Veg (Michael Joseph) has continued to prove fruitful in its third week in the UK Official Top 50 number one spot, with its volume through Nielsen BookScan’s TCM rising 22.5% week on week to 37,951 copies sold. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-09-10 10:23:31 UTC ]
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The fast-food industry is waging a chicken sandwich war. Bud Light and Coors Light are embroiled in “corngate.” And Kind and Cliff keep trading shots in a snack-bar skirmish over whose ingredients are healthier. These are among the many brand battles raging in what has become a feisty,... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-10 07:00:00 UTC ]
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Given the savagery with which New England Patriots dispatched the Pittsburgh Steelers, NBC executives would have been forgiven for thinking that last night’s “Sunday Night Football” opener would disappoint on the ratings front. And while viewers began tuning out once Tom Brady and Co. had... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-09-09 22:50:19 UTC ]
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