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 Green."The section's... 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. A Thanksgiving survival guide on Hulu - Admit it: You'll probably be spending at least some of your Thanksgiving vacation hiding away from family members in your bedroom or at least firing up the laptop to watch some movies on the plane. Let Hulu be your... READ MORE»
Time Inc. is folding InStyle Weddings, says Gawker. With it, presumably, goes the curse of the InStyle wedding, which ordained that unions featured on the magazine's cover would meet bad... READ MORE»
Documentary filmmaker and longtime Michael Moore collaborator Meghan O’Hara is currently working on a feature-length documentary about George W. Bush’s military service in the Texas Air National Guard, The Observer has... READ MORE»
Some of the magazine industry’s biggest names are on the verge of forming a new company that would allow them to take the digital future into their own... READ MORE»
Salon's new Food vertical takes its place alongside such categories as "News" and "Life"... READ MORE»
Since Gourmet folded in early October, Condé Nast has pledged to continue to market the iconic brand. Gourmet’s cookie cookbook is due to come out early next year, and a PBS show, Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth, is in the middle of a 10-episode run. That show’s first season is nearly over. So will the magazine’s former editor, and TV star, Ruth Reichl, who said in interviews that she was stunned by the sudden closure of... READ MORE»
"KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON," commands a World War II-era poster. The well-executed propaganda piece has recently gained popularity among "media and advertising executives" hoping to "propel themselves through this economic downturn," reports today's... 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»
