media
Flotsam & Jetsam
Visualising Media Overload
7:57AM Hamilton Nolan | Fast Company visualises “The Biggest Stories of Our Time”. Here, a graph of media mentions for panic-inducing stories like disease and the Y2K bug. More »
Online
Papers Find Facebook Status Too Risque To Print
9:39PM Ravi Somaiya | The Post and the Times both covered this story, about a man accused of robbery whose alibi was a Facebook status update. Both papers though, censored the update itself, which was apparently “indecipherable”. Except it wasn’t. More »
Print
A Year Condé Nast Would Like To Forget
8:02AM Gabriel Snyder | Final tally: ad pages dropped 32 per cent (or 8359 pages) at Condé Nast in 2009.
Small Screen
Is Oprah Ready To Leave Daytime TV?
6:58PM Azaria Jagger | Oprah’s shipping Lisa Erspamer — one of her most trusted producers — to LA to be chief creative officer of OWN: the Oprah Winfrey Network — and already some are speculating she’s laying the groundwork to move her TV show to OWN, too. More »
Print
Don’t Invest In Newspapers
3:25AM Hamilton Nolan | You may be aware that deathly newspaper company stocks have experienced a brief resurgence recently, amidst speculation that things aren’t so bad after all for the newspaper industry. If you benefited from this resurgence at all, lucky you. Now sell. More »
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Time Staffers Have Two Weeks To Volunteer For Buyout Packages
2:26AM Hamilton Nolan | The massive Time Inc. layoff buyouts are now sweeping through the company’s various magazines. Below, a memo that just went out to Time magazine editorial employees offering them buyouts. Run, don’t walk! More »
Online
We Can Think Of Several Hundred Million Other Reasons
6:15AM Gabriel Snyder | Auletta: Google feared buying the NYT would “sabotage their identity as a neutral search engine”.
Print
Wall Street Journal Takes On Local News
6:12AM Hamilton Nolan | The Wall Street Journal is planning to hire a dozen new staffers to cover local news in NYC, Media Decoder reports. Let us point out every last implication to this news! More »
Online
The Great Newspaper Firewall Is Coming. And?
1:57AM Hamilton Nolan | Newsday is going to start charging for its awful website. One columnist there quit over it. The New York Times says it will make a decision on charging for its (good) website “within weeks”. Then what happens? More »
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