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If you were confused before about what Medium is, its latest news won’t help make things much clearer. The Awl said today that it plans to migrate the entirety of The Billfold, its personal finance site, to Medium starting next week. The site’s URL, staff and overall editorial approach will remain unchanged, but TheBillfold.com as…
YouTubeBill Simmons.Media superstar Bill Simmons is starting a new site called The Ringer. While Simmons and his team have talked a bit about the new site, several key details have been kept secret. Here’s a new one to add to the mix. We have learned that Simmons will partner with publishing platform Medium on his new project. Medium has…
I’m not an expert on cyber warfare, nor do I play one on TV—or on Twitter for that matter. I have, though, published academic research about the cultural claims to legitimacy that policymakers have historically used when responding to perceived threats of youth hackers—work, I should note, that popular journalists have covered and properly attributed…
The website that will be the exclusive home to all of Bill Simmons’s written material revealed itself on Wednesday when Simmons, the former editor-in-chief of Grantland, announced he would front a new site in late spring or early summer called “The Ringer.” The editor-in-chief of the new site will be Sean Fennessey, who previously worked as…
The only part of David Cameron’s EU renegotiation likely to attract public interest is his plan to limit in-work benefits for migrants. No.10 adopted the policy after focus groups found that it had more “cut-through” than a limit on numbers. Reports at the weekend suggested that Jeremy Corbyn, who is in Brussels for a meeting of the Party…
Our country is changing. We’re used to conversations about race in Black and White, but a new America is emerging – one that is more multiethnic, more immigrant, more colorful than ever before. In the next 50 years, immigrants and their descendants, largely Latinos and Asians, will make up 88 percent of U.S. population growth….
Dear J-School Students, We’ve been hearing for a long time that the market is tough for you guys. Opportunities are few and far between. Salaries are low. Traditional jobs don’t exist like you thought they would. Times are tough. I get it. And I want to help you. But you aren’t making it easy. Over…
The pressure is on digital publishers to show they have massive reach and a young readership. That means reporting a big comScore audience number with plenty of those millennials who brands want so badly to engage with. The reason is simple: Many media plans have an arbitrary cutoff point for participating publishers. So publishers need to show…
SAN FRANCISCO — Marissa Mayer, the embattled chief executive of Yahoo, is gutting one of her signature projects: A cluster of digital magazines devoted to topics like food, autos, real estate, travel and technology. Yahoo notified dozens of writers and editors at the 15 publications on Wednesday that they were losing their jobs as part…
We read it for the articles. You may have heard that beginning with its March issue, scheduled to hit newsstands on Friday, Playboy is doing away with naked women. This might sound like Vogue doing away with fashion, or Cat Fancy doing away with cats, or, frankly, Vanity Fair doing away with movie stars and…