Hearst Will Now Help You Pay Your Bills
By Ben Popper | February 28, 2011 | 12:46 pm
George Kliavkoff went to Hearst back in 2009 to help the company figure out how to build or buy some new digital... MORE»
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Sunday, Bloody Sunday! Lindgren's Times Magazine Front of Book Butchery
By Kat Stoeffel | February 28, 2011 | 9:00 am
Last week WWD reported that the new New York Times Magazine editor Hugo Lindgren had put his first signature, redesigned issue to bed. It will hit newsstands on Sunday, March 6. And since yesterday's edition read like a group memorial service, we can expect whatever shows up to look entirely new and different. The front of book housecleaning rumored to have been enacted by Mr. Lindgren and New Republic young gun Greg Veis was... MORE»
Beast Dish! Andrew Sullivan Joins Tina Brown
By Kat Stoeffel | February 27, 2011 | 10:12 pm
Amid the social media flurry of the Academy Awards tonight, former New Republic editor Andrew Sullivan quietly announced that he will move his blog, The Daily Dish, to Tina Brown's News Beast in April. "[T]here are some opportunities you just can't let pass by," he wrote on TheAtlantic.com. Mr. Sullivan will also write columns and essays for Newsweek... MORE»
Gawker's Ban on 'Shiny Bauble' Share Buttons Lasted One Week
By Adrianne Jeffries | February 25, 2011 | 4:12 pm
Three weeks ago, newly-relaunched Gawker hit the web with a curious omission: the row of social media widgets frequently attached to blog posts across the web (examples below and to the right of this... MORE»
Recasting Parker-Spitzer... Phonetically [UPDATED]
By Kat Stoeffel | February 25, 2011 | 2:04 pm
UPDATE: Eliot Spitzer will have his own show, called "In the Arena," with rotating guests and in the same timeslot. reports The... MORE»
Douglas Durst: 'Showings' Afoot for Conde Space; China Trip for 1 WTC 'Like Davos'
By Laura Kusisto | February 25, 2011 | 1:50 pm
Now that Conde Nast is headed south, the publishing giant's landlord, Douglas Durst, reveals there is already active interest in Conde's current digs in 4 Times... MORE»
Local News Site Goes Facebook-Only
By Adrianne Jeffries | February 25, 2011 | 1:43 pm
Rockville Central, a local news site in Rockville, Maryland, is ditching its entire website for... MORE»
NY Mag and Trendrr Partner to Create 'Pure Info Porn'
By Ben Popper | February 25, 2011 | 11:50 am
New York's Vulture will no longer need to wonder what pop culture topics are worth writing about. It's partnered with Trendrr to create an Anticipitation Index that measures online buzz. By now most folks are familiar with the SEO stylings of publishers like AOL/HuffPo, who often write stores--"What Time is the Superbowl"--to match a particular audience demand according to what people are... MORE»
30 Rock Redesigns Jezebel—As Snarky Plot Device
By Daniel D'Addario | February 25, 2011 | 11:45 am
30 Rock last night satirized both Jezebel--recast as "JoanOfSnark"--and the blog chatter about Tina Fey's failures as a feminist. The episode dealt with protagonist Liz Lemon's struggles with a new, disconcertingly flirtatious female writer--and ended up at the conclusion that there are many different ways to be feminist, and that Liz hasn't mastered it yet.... MORE»
Morning Links: We're Just Earthworms in Rupert Murdoch's Octagon
By Kat Stoeffel | February 25, 2011 | 11:12 am
We know Rupert Murdoch runs NewsCorp like a family business, but who has the balls to make the movie version?... MORE»
Nate Silver's Heart Isn't in Oscar Predictions
By Daniel D'Addario | February 25, 2011 | 11:02 am
With the seeming success of the "Carpetbagger" blog, everyone at the New York Times seems to be getting into the Oscar-coverage game: Manohla Dargis and A. O.... MORE»
The Daily Will No Longer Be Indexed
By Adrianne Jeffries | February 24, 2011 | 10:27 am
Rupert Murdoch really wants you to read The Daily, a.k.a. The First iPad Newspaper Ever, on an iPad. There is some free Daily content online, but it wasn't easy to find--until L.A. writer/entrepreneur Andy Baio figured out a way to extract data from the file downloaded to his iPad and post it on Tumblr. Mr.... MORE»
The New Republic Owns Its Girl Problems—Convincingly!
By Kat Stoeffel | February 23, 2011 | 5:47 pm
Editors from the most prestigious magazines--New Yorker, Harper's, New York Review of Books, and The New Republic--responded to recent reports of gender imbalance at The Sisterhood today. All gave boilerplate responses: We know it's bad. We'll try harder. In the meantime, did you know we publish female writers x, y, and z? Not very encouraging. Except for The New... MORE»
That Was Quick - The Daily Coming To Android This Spring
By Ben Popper | February 23, 2011 | 12:18 pm
The sheets are still warm from the joint rollout of The Daily by Apple and Newscorp, but it sounds like the iPad only newspaper is already playing the... MORE»
Ar-mania! Cosmopolitan Armenia Launches with Kim Kardashian as Cover Girl
By Kat Stoeffel | February 23, 2011 | 11:15 am
Cosmpolitan will launch an Armenian edition in March, announced president and CEO of Hearst Magazines International Duncan Edwards. Part of an ongoing effort to realize their name, Cosmopolitan recently dispatched editions of the fun, fearless flagship to Mongolia and the Middle East. The Armenian ambassador to Rodeo Drive, Kim Kardashian, makes for an obvious cover choice. Hrachuhi Utmazyan has been named Cosmo's editor and the magazine will have an initial circulation of... MORE»
