Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital-related news. You can now get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Click here, or search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app.What people are talking about today: The Koch brothers -- the billionaire industrialists and champions of conservative causes are reportedly offering financial support to Meredith Corp.'s bid for Time Inc. The New York Times, citing unnamed people involved in the talks, says Charles and David Koch "have tentatively agreed to back Meredith's offer with an equity injection of more than $500 million." Meredith, whose titles include Better Homes and Gardens as well as Family Circle, has tried before to take over Time Inc., which publishes Time, People, Fortune and Sports Illustrated. But this time Meredith is reportedly back with big money.The Times notes that the Kochs spent $720 million ahead of last year's election to support conservative policies and candidates, adding that it's not clear how much influence (if any) the brothers would have on the publications if the deal happens. But if it does go forward, every word from the legacy publishing empire will be scrutinized for potential signs of the Kochs pressuring coverage. Incidentally, here's a Bloomberg News headline about the Kochs' influence, from a few hours before the Times published its scoop: "Koch-Funded Group Prods Trump's EPA to Say Climate Change Not a Risk."... Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'
[ Advertising Age | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
Experts from IDEO, Adobe, SVA, HOK, Designer Fund, and more share book recommendations for designers who want to expand their horizons in 2021 and beyond. Designers in 2021 face some of the biggest challenges of their careers as they help rebuild a society torn asunder by COVID-19, economic... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2021-01-22 06:00:37 UTC ]
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Traveling around the world, Gretel Ehrlich notes the ruinous effects of climate change. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-08 13:00:00 UTC ]
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“Human Nature” brings together the work of photographers documenting the earth’s altered landscape. It’s not all bad news. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2021-01-05 13:00:00 UTC ]
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A year has passed since the novel coronavirus first emerged. Even with mass inoculation efforts underway, it continues to rage on, with little sign of abating. Throughout this year, we’ve relied on journalism to make sense of it all—especially as the virus’s spread frequently outpaced our... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-12-15 13:02:41 UTC ]
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Author Lauren James has established The Climate Fiction Writers League, a group of over 50 international published authors writing about climate change. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-12-07 22:31:59 UTC ]
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THE DEVELOPERS OF Beirut’s Eden Bay needed to clean up the raw sewage on the beach of their luxury development, so they rerouted it into a storm pipe. “And then the rains came,” writes Lina Mounzer in her darkly comedic account from the new anthology Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-10-25 12:30:52 UTC ]
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The new photo book Overview Timelapse shows the startling ways humanity is changing the planet, from lithium mines to the ravages of climate change. Continue reading at Wired
[ Wired | 2020-10-14 12:00:00 UTC ]
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On Friday evening, CNN put a breaking-news chyron on screen: “WH: THERE WILL NOT BE A TRANSFER OF POWER.” It reflected White House assurances that President Trump—who was, at that moment, waiting to be taken to hospital after testing positive for COVID-19—did not plan on ceding his duties to... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-10-06 12:30:29 UTC ]
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Yesterday, NPR, along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, published a bleak poll on the economic health of the nation since the pandemic began. Nearly half of respondents said their household has experienced “serious financial problems” linked... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-09-10 12:00:40 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has won a seven-way auction to secure Rumaan Alam's "unnerving" novel, Leave the World Behind, deciding to "crash" the book into its autumn schedule. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-08-12 06:57:56 UTC ]
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Puffin has acquired The Bear in the Stars by debut author and print-maker Alexis Snell. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-04 13:19:07 UTC ]
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The Pulitzer Prize finalist addresses the existential crisis of climate change with a story that’s alternately witty and devastating Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-05-12 16:34:09 UTC ]
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Both Google and Facebook have acted surprisingly quickly to remove disinformation related to the COVID-19 virus over the past few weeks, considering their somewhat mixed track record when it comes to removing hoaxes, conspiracy theories, and trolls related to political campaigns. But experts... Continue reading at Columbia Journalism Review
[ Columbia Journalism Review | 2020-04-09 11:45:11 UTC ]
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The Wainwright Prize for UK nature writing has launched a new award recognising narrative books that reflect conservation or climate change and how it impacts on nature and the outdoors. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-03-24 08:29:09 UTC ]
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“Our House Is on Fire” shares a very personal story of the suffering that preceded Thunberg’s activism on climate change. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-03-16 16:00:00 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_177771" align="alignright" width="150"] Jason Frierott[/caption] Meredith Corp. announced Thursday that it has hired Jason Frierott as its new VP and CFO, succeeding Joe Ceryanec, who had previously announced plans to retire in early 2020 after 12 years in the... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-02-27 20:00:04 UTC ]
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The authors of the new book ‘The Future We Choose,’ which outlines possible outcomes of the climate crisis, explain how you can make the choices today that will create the best possible world in 2050. A new book called The Future We Choose lays out two scenarios for the future: what 2050 looks... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2020-02-24 06:01:25 UTC ]
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As floods swamp Britain in yet another reminder of the weather extremes engendered by climate change, this week’s announcement from German media giant Bertelsmann, parent of Penguin Random House, that it has set a 2030 target to become “climate neutral” comes as a welcome marker for the... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-02-21 00:16:16 UTC ]
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[caption id="attachment_141881" align="alignright" width="150"] Joe Brown[/caption] Hearst Magazines has hired Joe Brown as group editorial director of its Hearst Autos division, which includes Car and Driver, Road & Track and Autoweek, among other titles, starting March 2. Brown moves to... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-02-13 19:39:00 UTC ]
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Meredith announced it has another quarterly newsstand title in the works, this time with chef, author and TV personality Ayesha Curry. This will be the second new title added to the Meredith portfolio in 2020, along with “The Property Brothers” Drew Jonathan Scott’s Reveal, which hit newsstands... Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2020-01-23 14:48:45 UTC ]
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