Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
The sky is falling on print newspapers faster than you think Last October, a McKinsey report declared, “We believe that many of the people likely to abandon print newspapers and print consumer magazines have already done so…. We believe most of this core audience — households that have retained their print subscriptions despite having access to broadband — will…
IT IS hard to identify the moment when podcasting took off, because it keeps having them. In June last year Barack Obama showed up at a Californian man’s garage to tape a podcast (“WTF with Marc Maron”), while “Serial”, a podcast series about disputed real-life stories that was launched in 2014, has surpassed 100m downloads….
There is almost never a good reason to hit “reply all.” Especially not when “all” includes a listserv that goes out to thousands of employees at Time Inc., the country’s largest magazine publisher. It’s still ongoing (send us more of the chain!), but we were forwarded a portion of it as of about an hour…
The Onion’s top news, circa 2013: “Print Dead at 1,803.” On Tuesday, it helped put the nail in the coffin. The satirical news site just agreed to sell a chunk of itself (as well as sister properties including ClickHole and The A.V. Club) to Spanish broadcaster Univision Communications. The reported price tag of about $200 million for…
Editors and writers with The Onion work on elections copy in October 2008 during a drafts meeting at the website’s offices, then in New York. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption toggle caption Seth Wenig/AP Editors and writers with The Onion work on elections copy in October 2008 during a drafts meeting at the website’s…
Reddit Releases First Original Series, Moves Toward Video Content Creation Entertainment, social networking and user-provided news website Reddit released its first original video series called “Cyborg Nation” on Wednesday. By Tyler MacDonald | Nov 05, 2015 05:00 AM EST article start img_article start Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian used ideas taken from Reddit users to help…
Jan. 19, 2016 7:00 a.m. ET Despite numerous warnings that the online advertising business is rife with fraud, marketers continue to waste billions–an estimated $7 billion, at least, this year–on buying online ads that people do not see, according to the Association of National Advertisers. The trade group and ad fraud detection firm White Ops…
Rep. Mike Pitts, R- Laurens. (AP Photo/John Bazemore) file An Upstate lawmaker who tried to keep the Confederate flag flying and whose campaign spending habits were part of a Post and Courier examination of Statehouse money trails says it’s time to register journalists in the state. State Rep. Mike Pitts, R-Laurens, Tuesday introduced a…
McSweeney’s Monthly Newsletter * * * Every month we’ll send out an update that will include announcements about upcoming books, special events featuring McSweeney’s authors, and occasional stories and artwork not found anywhere else. Begin MailChimp Signup Form End mc_embed_signup hide announcement Source: McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Millennial Think-Piece Bingo.
Why can’t you find The Greatest Publication Ever Made on any newsstand or web browser or TV network? Because people don’t want it. This is America, where journalism is a business like any other. This is not England. The government will not be raining down supplemental income to support quality journalism. Take that socialism elsewhere!…