Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
As print revenue continues to shrink, legacy publishers are facing the question (again) of how to deploy their (also shrinking) staffs. In the early days of the web, print publishers had digital operations that were separate from their print teams, and often considered second-class; understandable, considering most of their money was and is still being…
Gus Wenner, 26, head of Wenner Media’s digital operations, with his father, Jann Wenner, 70, Rolling Stone’s editor. Credit Jesse Dittmar for The New York Times With his spiky gray hair and the top few buttons of his shirt undone, Jann S. Wenner looked every bit the aging but still vigorous lion of pop-culture media…
Hillary Clinton became the presidential nominee of the Democratic Party last night, the first woman to ever head a major US party’s ticket. Many American newspapers showed a picture of her husband instead. Here’s the Chicago Tribune (all front pages via the Newseum): The Houston Chronicle: The Arkansas Democrat Gazette! Bill Clinton spoke last night, and his speech…
For the black community in Chicago and elsewhere, Johnson Publishing Company represented a certain kind of hope. The company’s magazines, most notably Ebony and Jet, gained prominence during the struggle for civil rights — Jet published graphic photos of the murdered black teenager Emmett Till that helped intensify the movement — and made it their…
This company was built to fail, says Michael Ferro, Tribune Publishing chairman, talking about the turnaround at Tribune. Tribune’s risk strategy. Source: Tribune’s risk strategy
One of the joys of modern technology is how easy it is to immerse yourself in the past. Every day, more libraries and archives are pushing pieces of their collections online in easily browsable interfaces. The New York Public Library, for instance, has historic menus and interactive floor plans. Chronicling America is a searchable repository…
paging_filter Tribune Publishing chairman Michael Ferro hasn’t said much in public since Gannett, the largest newspaper company in the U.S., went public with its hostile takeover bid for his company. But inside the company, publisher of a slate of struggling but nationally recognized broadsheets like The Chicago Tribune, The Los Angeles Times and The Baltimore…
Illustration by Tony O. Champagne For years now, media analysts have said technology will save print—and maybe it will, just not in the way they predicted. The news industry is going through an overload of information particularly in the digital sphere. We can point our fingers at the 24-hour news cycle. We can blame social…
COPY PHOTO/copy photo Col Allan, 62, will retire at the end of the month. He joined News Corp. in 1974 and rose through the ranks to become editor-in-chief of the tabloid in 2001. It’s the end of an error at the New York Post. Col Allan — the longest-serving editor at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp….
Playing his tune: Alan Rushbridger was one of the best newspaper editors of his generation, but lacked commercial success ©Amy T. Zielinsky/Getty Images Let’s agree that the Guardian is a great newspaper whose survival should concern us all. It may sometimes be pompous and self-regarding, but in an age of dumbing down it still carries…