Time magazine named "The Protester" the person of the year, in recognition of the global rise of populist movements. It was quite a blow to the Apple devouts expecting to wake up to Steve Jobs's face this morning. (Raising the existential question, can one "snub" the dead?) Read More
Newsweek owner Sidney Harman probably would have been delighted if Fareed Zakaria seriously considered taking over the magazine, but he doesn't want anything to do with management, or trying to help figure out that dark, mysterious, scary future of journalism.
Mr. Zakaria told David Carr, "I very much want to be in the business of creating Read More
And here's the latest blow to NewsweeK: Fareed Zakaria is packing his bags and heading over to Time. He represents yet another high profile departue from the magazine, and this move must cement the feeling to the old guard at Newsweek that their era really is over. Mr. Zakaria isn't going into academica (Evan Thomas is doing that), Read More
Let’s just get this out of the way: The CIA doesn’t hire working journalists. Not American ones, anyway. It stopped in 1976 after an embarrassing investigation by Sen. Frank Church (D-ID) revealed that infiltrating news teams was just one of several bad habits dating to the 1950s. But we can’t help imagining the clinking of Read More
The maimed face of 18-year-old Aisha, her nose and ears cut off as punishment by her Afghan husband for fleeing his home, made the cover of Time magazine last week and changed the debate over the country's military involvement in Afghanistan. Hitting stands just as a growing chorus of pundits and lawmakers had begun to Read More
File this week's Time cover under: things that are very important for us to know about our world that also make us squirm in our seat. (We're reminded this morning of The New York Times article earlier this month about heroin addicts who inject themselves with one another's blood to stave off withdrawal Read More
Red Carpet Comprehensive Lists
Before any of his guests arrived, Time editor Rick Stengel rotated between the dozens of reporters waiting along the red carpet outside the Time Warner Building's Frederick P. Rose Hall, the scene of the Time 100 gala Tuesday night.
"Here you have in the same room presidents and poets and philosophers and artists and athletes Read More
It's a small victory for Time Warner, but not insignificant: Time Inc.'s ad revenue and subscription income actually increased in the first three months of 2010, reports Peter Kafka.
Meanwhile, Time Inc.'s operating income improved dramatically to $50 million; a year ago the unit posted a $32 million loss. Chalk that up to the Read More
It’s springtime, media New Yorkers! The trees are blossoming, the sidewalks are filling up with cafe tables and if you stake out just the right corner, you might spot the N.Y.U. track team racing shirtless up Broadway. (It’s not just what’s outside, either!) After what’s been an endless year for the city’s ink-stained wretches, there’s 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 hands.
The company would make up one of the biggest alliances among rival publishers ever formed in print media, with Time Inc., Condé Nast and Hearst all Read More
Rick Stengel on Monday afternoon: "When I became editor of Time, one of the things I said was 'I don't want to put question marks on the cover. I want to have a point of view.'"
Time's cover line, published today: "Does Temperament Matter?"
To reach Babak Dehghanpisheh, Newsweek's Baghdad Bureau Chief, you have to dial an twelve-digit number (that's minus a series of zeros that you sometimes need to dial first) which rings him on his satellite phone in the house the magazine shares with two other media organizations inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone.
Mr. Dehghanpisheh, who's Read More
In the wake of 100+ job cuts at Newsweek, the Journal's Rebecca Dana parachutes down into the Newsweek and Time buildings to find out what's happening. Jon Meacham tells her that being an editor these days is very much like being a manager of a company who has to move bodies and "control costs." Read More
So that Times story about John McCain, the one the world heard about in December, was published last night.
In a nutshell:
Early in Senator John McCain’s first run for the White House eight years ago, waves of anxiety swept through his small circle of advisers.
A female lobbyist Read More
In a memo sent this morning to Time staffers and posted on Romenesko, managing editor Rick Stengel announced that the magazine has hired Salon political reporter Michael Scherer. Mr. Scherer, who has also worked at Mother Jones, will report and produce videos for Time.com, as well as writing for the magazine, and will be Read More
