Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: The name Tronc one of the weirdest corporate rebrands in memory might be on its way out. The owner of the Chicago Tribune and New York Daily News is set to change its name back to Tribune Publishing, according to a report in The New York Post, which gets extra credit for its headline, "Tronc finally realizes it has a stupid name." Bloomberg News, meanwhile, says the company is thinking about dropping the name but hasn't made a decision yet.The 2016 debut of the name Tronc (shorthand for Tribune Online Content) spawned a gazillion jokes. Like: "What you gonna do with all that jonc / All that jonc inside your tronc." And also: "Go home, Tribune. You're Tronc."The Post quoted a source saying the board approved the name change a month ago, but was waiting for the finalization of the sale of the Los Angeles Times and other papers to biotech billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, which happened yesterday. Soon-Shiong, who is still a Tronc shareholder, also reportedly thinks the Tronc name is "silly." Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
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Last Wednesday, the Times published a front-page story about the movie and real-estate mogul Wang Jianlin, who is the richest man in Asia, worth an estimated thirty-five billion dollars. The former People’s Liberation Army foot soldier has ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2015-05-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Editor John Micklethwait departs on a high. But print circulation may never be so high - nor fortunes quite so serene – againYou used to judge successful editors by a simple test. How many copies did they sell on day one, and how many on their last day in the chair? Plus, of course, parallel... Continue reading at The Guardian
[ The Guardian | 2015-01-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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At least 28 editors at the New Republic resigned today following a management shake-up at the century-old political magazine.The departures by staff editors and contributing editors were reported in a tweet by Ryan Lizza, a contributing editor, who also stepped down.The editors stepped down en... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2014-12-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Bloomberg News has an unusual practice of paying some of its reporters explicitly for publishing "market-moving" stories. This is one of many metrics that is factored into reporters' annual bonuses. Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-12-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Forbes Media, the publisher of the eponymous financial magazine and website, is exploring a sale.The company is working with Deutsche Bank AG to consider its options. In a memo to staff Friday morning confirming a report by Bloomberg News, CEO Mike Perlis said the company had received... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2013-11-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Instagram just made it official: ads are about to hit the social photo-sharing platform. "In the next couple months, you may begin seeing an occasional ad in your Instagram feed if you’re in the United States," the company said in a blog post today. "Seeing photos and videos from brands you... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2013-10-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With a global television network operation in place, Bloomberg News is using video clips from its shows as well as Web-only videos to produce some 200 clips per day, signaling a new "digital first" approach, says Chris Berend ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-04-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 09:39 The struggling HMV Group has bought more time to pass covenant tests while issuing a third profit warning. The group, which owns Waterstone's, said "trading conditions have remained difficult" since it issued its last profit... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Written By: Lisa Campbell Publication Date: Tue, 05/04/2011 - 08:28 The Big Green Bookshop is celebrating after achieving 96% of its path to financial safety. The indie retailer based in Wood Green, north London, sent out a mass appeal to its customers a month ago asking them to buy one extra... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2011-04-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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With the recent reports from Bloomberg News that Android is one of the fastest operating systems currently on the market, it is no surprise that the system has introduced a new appstore in partnership with Amazon.com, Inc., which launched on Tuesday. "Custome Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2011-03-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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