Last night WABC (ABC's owned-and-operated station in New York) broke the story that Oprah Winfrey will be ending her broadcast talk show in 2011. She's decamping to cable, where she will run OWN, a cable network, jointly owned by her and Discovery Communications.The Oprah Winfrey Show is the most successful syndicated... READ MORE»
Bloomberg reports today on the local news battlegrounds that The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times are currently staking out. Both papers are exploring regional editions in places like the Bay Area and Chicago, to the chagrin of some local... READ MORE»
Last night WABC (ABC's owned-and-operated station in New York) broke the story that Oprah Winfrey will be ending her broadcast talk show in 2011. She's decamping to cable, where she will run OWN, a cable network, jointly owned by her and Discovery Communications. The Oprah Winfrey Show is the most successful syndicated daytime talk show in history. And the news that its days are now numbered sent the TV industry into a frenzy Thursday... READ MORE»
Not infrequently, The New York Times supplements its regular offerings with a "special section," a home for special content on special topics or special events-and for the advertisers who want to read about these topics! We will be reviewing these sections in this space. Today: "The Business of... READ MORE»
Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the... READ MORE»
Last February, Anil Dash; the co-founder and “chief evangelist” for Six Apart, the company that creates the most popular blogging software in the world; was visiting his family in India for the first time in 25 years, explaining what he does for a living. Mr. Dash, 34, is an influential tech blogger and consultant who coaxed business executives and newspaper editors into embracing social media long before every site from The New York Times... READ MORE»
New York Times Washington correspondent Jodi Kantor has secured a stunning seven-figure book deal this week with Little, Brown to write a volume on the Obamas. The deal was the result of a heated citywide auction, and was brokered by independent lit agent Elyse Cheney. It comes on the heels of the 34-year-old reporter’s New York Times Magazine cover story on the Obamas’ marriage, which argued that “the Obamas mix politics and romance in a... READ MORE»
Joe Scarborough held up a copy of The New York Times. It was Monday, Nov. 16, and earlier in the morning The Times had published a piece about Newsweek, which had recently laid off 13 staffers. Quarterly ad revenue at the newsweekly was down 48 percent versus last year. That said, according to The Times, things were looking... READ MORE»
Ho, ho, ho, the Condé Nast Christmas party is back! After a one-year break, Si Newhouse’s editors and publishers will celebrate the holidays next Monday, Nov. 23, at Aureole, the Charlie Palmer restaurant in the Bank of America Tower on Sixth Avenue and 42nd... READ MORE»
Our favorite humble hometown reporters might be on the verge of TV stardom! A documentary filmmaker has hit the Times Tower with camera in tow and is planning to make a movie focused on the Times media... READ MORE»
Mort Zuckerman's weapons in the fight for print: optimism and $150 million... READ MORE»
This summer, John Koblin considered the rift between publicity-seeking food bloggers and the secretive "old-fashioned restaurant critic." This week, in its annual Food Issue, The New Yorker reports on a breed of critic far more old-fashioned than Frank Bruni--the Michelin... READ MORE»
Window Media--a national publisher of gay newspapers, including the Washington Blade--went out of business today. According to The... READ MORE»
Nerds, rev your browsers! Time Inc. has just launched a new site titled Techland. In his introductory post, technology editor Peter Ha writes: "Think of TECHLAND as the water cooler for nerds. Or, the way I see it, TECHLAND is the result of some weird orgy involving Jeff Albertson, a Cylon, Lev Grossman and Nikola Tesla. Weird, right? But it just... READ MORE»
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At least someone is doing well in the cratering media... READ MORE»
Conde Nast super-publisher Tom Florio tells Women's Wear Daily that things are turning around at... READ MORE»
"The beauty of this show is that it's got content from all over the NBC Universal platforms," said Matt Glassman. It was Wednesday afternoon, and Mr. Glassman, a senior producer of content at NBC's local owned-and-operated station in Washington D.C., was on the phone with The Observer talking about a newfangled, pioneering-type show called Daily... READ MORE»
Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web. How to draw a New Yorker cover - Speaking of the last magazine standing, artist Jorge Colombo sketched another one of his New Yorker covers with the iPhone Brushes... READ MORE»
Today, CNN executives announced that John King will be the network's new 7 p.m. anchor. Mr. King will take over the time slot sometime early next year. For the time being he will continue to anchor CNN's Sunday morning public affairs show, State of the Union. According to a press release, Mr. King's yet-to-be-named program will focus on "key political movements in Washington and across the... READ MORE»
Magazines are shrinking—smaller staffs, fewer writers, fewer stories written per writer, fewer words for each story—but The New Yorker continues to look, remarkably, about the same as it did five years ago, even as its parent company has cut hundreds of jobs and folded a handful of titles in the past few weeks. ... READ MORE»
Last month, Google announced that they had invented a "Street View trike." Their Street View car could roll down traditional roads and take pictures for their popular maps feature. But it couldn't document hard-to-access trails, parks, landmarks and sports... READ MORE»
November 17, 2009
Ho, ho, ho, the Condé Nast Christmas party is back! After a one-year break, Si Newhouse’s editors and publishers will celebrate the holidays next Monday, Nov. 23, at Aureole,... READ MORE »
November 20, 2009
Last night WABC (ABC's owned-and-operated station in New York) broke the story that Oprah Winfrey will be ending her broadcast talk show in 2011. She's decamping to cable, where she... READ MORE »
November 19, 2009
Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.One... READ MORE »
“I’ll say the thing I’ve said about each previous Major Initiative announced by Mr. Murdoch—the glossy weekly magazine, the robust culture section, the daily sports section. We welcome competition.”
