Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
via Getty Last week, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti held an off-the-record company meeting, parts of which were tweeted by the company’s media reporter, Steven Perlberg. Responding to a question about unions, Peretti reiterated to his Stateside staff that while he is not “personally anti-union,” he does not believe unionization is right for his particular shop….
Sexual harassment claims against yet another powerful man in media inspired New York Times White House correspondent Glenn Thrush to post an impassioned note on his Facebook page in October, calling on his fellow journalists to stand by women entering the field. In the post, which linked to an article about the latest accusations against political journalist…
As Oath continues to consolidate its many offerings and bring new products to market for its ad clients, brands like The Home Depot and Pottery Barn are testing some of its new ad formats. Today’s consumers “expect more from advertisers and marketers need the right tools to build brand love,” according to Oath’s CRO, John DeVine,…
* we weren’t really sponsored by Fandango… In this special episode Rich, Mike, and Jay talk about the Last Jedi. A movie that’s complex, but subtle. Beautiful, yet awkward, clunky and unfunny. Good, yet very bad. Also while discussing the bombing raid on the Dreadnought. Mike talks about a Star Trek Voyager episode coincidentally called…
Mashable’s sign in their New York office. Business Insider Mashable was in deep trouble financially before it sold for far below its one-time valuation of $250 million, according to documents reviewed by Business Insider. The company was heavily reliant on digital-media advertising revenue, the documents show. It also lost $4.2 million in the three months through September….
John Skipper resigned as president of ESPN and co-chairman of the Disney Media Networks on Monday. George Bodenheimer, ESPN’s president from 1998 to 2011 and its executive chairman until May 2014, will take over as the acting chairman of the company for the next 90 days to help Disney chairman and chief executive officer Bob…
Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames trafficked in hideous stereotypes and body-shaming. December 15, 2017 at 4:42 PM Taibbi released a new book about Eric Garner this year. (Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage) There’s more than one way to harass women. A raft of men in recent weeks have paid for accusations of sexual harassment with their…
Note: Spoilers for The Last Jedi (YES ALL THE SPOILERS) I came out of watching The Last Jedi, and was like, “Well, that was good, but I’m not blown away.” It had a lot of threads; it felt like three movies in one, and cramming all that story into one movie made it feel a…
Dec. 15, 2017 7:59 a.m. ET Good morning. Advertising company holiday e-greeting cards usually make me cringe, so I will admit I was limbering up for a face-stretching grimace when MediaMath’s holiday message landed in my inbox. This year, MediaMath offered up an amusing holiday meditation. “There is no fraud. Your life is not being…
“Revolution will come in a form we cannot yet imagine,” the critical theorists Fred Moten and Stefano Harney wrote in their 2013 essay “The Undercommons,” about the need to radically upend hierarchical institutions. I thought of their prophecy in October, when a private document listing allegations of sexual harassment and abuse by dozens of men…