Yet another brutal week for American journalism

On Wednesday, without prior warning, Pacific Standard, an award-winning magazine that has done substantive journalism on environmental and social justice, announced its imminent closure. The Social Justice Foundation, a nonprofit backed by SAGE, an academic publisher, yanked its funding from Pacific Standard; the foundation will shutter, too. Last year, the magazine scrapped its print edition, but in recent months, it had been staffing up. According to Nicholas Jackson, the editor in chief, the Social Justice Foundation’s board just approved an ambitious, 10-year expansion plan he put forward. Jackson was blindsided when he learned, on Monday, that his magazine would be dead within two weeks. The sudden decision, he told The Daily Beast’s Lloyd Grove, was “unethical” and possibly even illegal. ICYMI: NPR cut me off after Tucker Carlson criticized my tweet Pacific Standard’s situation is strange—and extremely abrupt—but it fits a clear, broader trend; as Grove writes, “In today’s Darwinian media environment, newspapers, magazines and online publications seem to be biting the dust every week—a depressing new normal.” Pacific Standard wasn’t even the only publication to announce its closure on Wednesday. The same day, Governing magazine, which focuses on state and local government, said it will cease operations in the fall. Despite recent investment, Governing proved “unsustainable as a business in today’s media environment,” management said. J. Brian Charles, an... Continue reading at 'Columbia Journalism Review'

[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-08-09 12:12:17 UTC ]
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Yet another brutal week for American journalism

On Wednesday, without prior warning, Pacific Standard, an award-winning magazine that has done substantive journalism on environmental and social justice, announced its imminent closure. The Social Justice Foundation, a nonprofit backed by SAGE, an academic publisher, yanked its funding from... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review

[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-08-09 12:12:17 UTC ]
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Another brutal week for American journalism

Between January and May this year, approximately 3,000 people working in the news industry were laid off or offered a buyout. That’s according to figures compiled by Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.—a Chicago-based firm that helps workers find new employment—and reported yesterday in a... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review

[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2019-07-02 12:07:17 UTC ]
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Cormac McCarthy, bleak and brutal titan of American literature, dead at 89

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy, who wrote nihilistic and violent tales of the American frontier and post-apocalyptic worlds that enthralled and appalled readers, died on Tuesday at the age of 89, his representative confirmed to CBC... Continue reading at CBC

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Oz editor-in-chief rages against the ‘tearing down’ of News Corp journalism | Weekly Beast

Christopher Dore says some critics make him ‘cringe’. Plus: ‘Furries’ at elite Brisbane school?Christopher Dore has been the editor-in-chief of the Australian since 2018, and has quite the pedigree in editing Rupert Murdoch’s Australian mastheads. Dorey, as staff call him, has edited the Daily... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2022-03-25 03:05:12 UTC ]
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News Corp carnage: fine print reveals even greater hit to local journalism | The Weekly Beast

Suburban and regional papers won’t have standalone websites. Plus: ABC reposts tweet after backlashOf the 112 printed newspapers shut down by News Corp this week, 76 will survive as digital-only publications but the devil is in the detail.The suburban and regional papers – such as the Inner West... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-05-29 01:07:11 UTC ]
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American journalism is dying. Its survival requires public funds | Victor Pickard

Maintaining public media infrastructure should be non-negotiable for a democratic society. We have to be boldThe McClatchy newspaper chain’s recent filing for bankruptcy is one more data point showing that US journalism is dying. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the newspaper... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2020-02-19 13:34:47 UTC ]
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American City Business Journals Acquires Streetwise Media

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 16, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- American City Business Journals, the nation's largest print and online publisher of local business news, has acquired Streetwise Media, a Boston-based digital media company that uses a community ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher

[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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A New Asian American Boom: A Reading List of the Cambodian American Experience

I feel a cultural shift in the way the publishing world is accepting Cambodian American stories. In 2021, Ecco Press posthumously published the groundbreaking story collection, Afterparties, by Anthony Veasna So, opening new doors for Khmer American writers. The next year the University of... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

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This Week’s Bestsellers: Week of June 30, 2024

‘Reckless’, the latest YA romantasy from Lauren Roberts, is the #1 book in the country. Plus some new book clubs picks make strong showings on our lists, and we’ll get right to reading them after mixing up some ‘Freezer Door Cocktails.’ Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

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Lachlan Murdoch’s whirlwind week: from US court testimony to Sydney Christmas party as elites rub shoulders | The Weekly Beast

Global head of News Corp among Murdoch’s guests. Plus: Toni Collette reveals split with husband after Daily Mail photosLachlan Murdoch’s week began with a deposition on Monday in the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox News and ended with the News Corp co-chair hosting an exclusive party... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2022-12-09 01:26:31 UTC ]
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Dolly Parton, fairy godmother of American literacy, is also the fairy godmother of American health.

We already love Dolly Parton, not just for her powerhouse songwriting and iconic hair but also for her championing of American literacy—her Imagination Library sends over 1 million free books per month (that’s one book every two seconds!) to children ages 0-5 in the United States, Canada, the... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 18:00:10 UTC ]
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Oxford American, one of the great lit mags of the American South, gets a facelift.

If you pick up the newest edition of Oxford American, the quarterly general-interest literary magazine founded in 1992 and best known for its annual Southern music issues, you’ll notice a bold design aesthetic: the conspicuous dearth of cover lines, a prominent masthead, a thick, granular... Continue reading at Literrary Hub

[ Literrary Hub | 2019-09-11 20:06:33 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Ranking: Eleanor Oliphant spends 14th week at the top

For an eighth week in total, the Weekly E-Book Ranking top two are once again completely fine—Gail Honeyman’s blockbuster début and Nibbies board-sweeper Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and its perennial runner-up, Heather Morris’ The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2018-05-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for Week Ending January 8, 2017

Unit sales of print books declined 5% in the week ended Jan. 8, 2017, compared to the similar week in 2016, at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2017-01-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Unstoppable Train takes the Weekly E-Ranking number one for a 14th week

The Girl on the Train (Transworld) has chugged its way into a 14th non-consecutive week as the Weekly E-Ranking number one. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-12-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Weekly E-Book Ranking: five weeks at the top for Moyes' Me Before You

Jojo Moyes makes it five weeks on the trot at at the summit of the Weekly E-Book Ranking, with the film-boosted sales of Me Before You (Michael Joseph) showing little sign of slowing down. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2016-07-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Weekly Scorecard: Tracking Unit Print Sales for the Week Ending February 28, 2016

Unit sales of print books rose 5% in the week ended Feb. 28, 2016, over the similar week last year, at outlets that report to Nielsen BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly

[ Publishers Weekly | 2016-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Weekly Beast: drama at Australian Women's Weekly, Cleo and Dolly

Cleo is dumped and Helen McCabe’s tenure editing AWW ends as News Corp beds down new year appointments and Daily Mail Australia splits with NineThere has been enough drama at the magazine empire of the Australian Women’s Weekly, Dolly and Cleo in the past month to fuel another couple of... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Week after week for Life After Life

Despite missing out on the overall prize in the Costa Book Awards, Kate Atkinson's Life After... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Printed book sales rise £8m week on week

Printed book sales soared by £8m in the UK last week, as shoppers flocked to the high... Continue reading at The Bookseller

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