Many of you following the news about G+J putting Fast Company up for sale have probably heard the war of words the resulting story in the New York Times set off with Fast Company editor-in-chief John Byrne. The New York Times called Fast Company basically […]
No, it’s Iowa. This is a pretty interesting move made in the magazine publishing world this week. It certainly makes Meredith, a major player in the game, much larger. Corporate headquarters for this magazine powerhouse? Answer: Des Moines. According to reports by Folio, the industry […]
This is an interesting story from the New York Times. Five major journalism schools have set out to raise the status of journalism education to better prepare journalists. I believe the real purupose behind the $6 million project is to raise the status of journalism […]
It’s an obvious statement, but the way that we follow the news is changing. Everyone can see this is happening, but for many who work in the traditional media the question is what to do about it. What does it mean for the media whose […]
According to a story written by Associated Press reporter, journalists are more ethical than the average person. "Recent research by Wilkins and Renita Coleman of Louisiana State University may provide some vindication for members of a profession that’s taken a beating in recent years with […]
Why haven’t Vanity Fair’s recent issues sold on the newstand as they once have? In a word: men. According to Lia Miller’s recent article in the New York Times, the cover models are to blame. "Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, blamed the cover […]
I recently came across an interesting blog for those who follow the media. It’s called Regret the Error, and it simply tracks all of the errors made by major media outlets across the country. It’s fascinating. It includes links to the correction pages to newspapers, […]
The Norman Lear Center released the findings of some interesting research this week about the quality (or more precisely the lack thereof) of television political coverage. The Lear Center, centered at the Annenburg School at USC, “is a multidisciplinary research and public policy center exploring […]
I know I’ve been missing in action again, but work has me busy at the moment. More later. Here’s a quick story about the fleeting nature of journalism. Is it a worthy profession. The article is from the New Criterion. An interesting paragraph: Journalistic consciousness […]
“Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one […]