November 2010
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I wrote about Tina Brown and the Newsweek / Daily...
THE TINA BROWN TURNAROUND
Tina Brown was in a state. It was Tuesday morning, Nov. 9, and the Daily Beast editor was in Barry Diller’s office at IAC headquarters on the West Side. Talks with Sidney Harman about merging the site with his recently acquired Newsweek were back on—big time—and to Ms. Brown, they teetered on the brink of inevitability. “Oh my God,” she thought....
Newsweek and Daily Beast to Merge
Details in the New York Observer.
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It seems like every three days or so for the past year, you’ve had to hear about some well-known media outlet being all, “Hey, we’re on Tumblr now. Please, hold your applause.” And it’s kinda sad, because it’s always kinda clumsy and frantic, and you get second-hand embarrassment watching the…
A response to Jacob Weisberg, with more on Slate's...
Here.
“I’m afraid the nice young man had no idea what I was talking about.”
– Jacob Weisberg
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You're Putting US With THEM? Awards Shuffle...
My first piece for the Observer:
On the night of the magazine industry’s annual awards gala, it’s common for editors to feel spurned, slighted and resentful.
This year, editors are having their feelings hurt in advance.
On Monday, the American Society of Magazine Editors overhauled the way its biggest awards are judged, so that titles will compete on the basis of content and...
