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Feminist Press Honors Huffington|Mother Jones Focuses On Climate Change|More On The Vanity Fair Layoffs|Latina's Special Mexico Issue Brings In Ads - Posted October 23, 2009
GalleyCat: Arianna Huffington was among the women honored by the Feminist Press at its 39th Annual Women Write the World Gala last night.
BayNewser: Mother Jones is gathering a group of publications to work collectively to report on climate change. The group may eventually include Slate, Grist, The Atlantic, Wired, ProPublica and... [FishBowlNY]
Opinion Aggregator Atlantic Wire Launches - Posted September 16, 2009
Atlantic Consumer Media has launched a new stand alone site The Atlantic Wire, to aggregate some of the best opinions and debates on the Web.
The Atlantic has long been a source for well-thought out opinions and discussions, and some of the voice from the magazine and its Web site, like columnist... [FishBowlNY]
Slate Founder Michael Kinsley To Lead New Digital Launch For Atlantic - Posted September 11, 2009
Atlantic Consumer Media, which publishes The Atlantic, has brought on Slate founder Michael Kinsley as a media columnist and the editor of an upcoming digital property that will launch early next year.
"As both an editor and a columnist, Michael has long been at the vanguard of publishing's digital transformation," said Atlantic... [FishBowlNY]
Slate Founder Michael Kinsley To Lead New Digital Launch For Atlantic - Posted September 11, 2009
Atlantic Media Company, which publishes The Atlantic, has brought on Slate founder Michael Kinsley as a media columnist and the editor of an upcoming digital property that will launch early next year.
"As both an editor and a columnist, Michael has long been at the vanguard of publishing’s digital transformation," said Atlantic... [FishBowlNY]
Friedman Gives Back $75K|Double X Takes On Jezebel|10 Reasons Why Bailing Out Newspapers Is A Bad Idea|Mag Publishers' Buyout Deal|Bankrupt Tribune Denied Severance - Posted May 13, 2009
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GalleyCat: New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman has returned a $75,000 speaker's fee.
WebNewser: Slate's new online women's magazine, Double X, published a critique of Gawker's lady blog, Jezebel, on its... [FishBowlNY]
Friedman Gives Back $75K|Double X Takes On Jezebel|10 Reasons Why Bailing Out Newspapers Is A Bad Idea|Mag Publishers' Buyout Deal|Bankrupt Tribune Denied Severance - Posted May 13, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10cArizona State Snubs Obamathedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesEconomic CrisisPolitical Humor
GalleyCat: New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman has returned a $75,000 speaker's fee.
WebNewser: Slate's new online women's magazine, Double X, published a critique of Gawker's lady blog, Jezebel, on its... [FishBowlNY]
The Stimulist Puts Another Nail In Snark's Coffin - Posted May 12, 2009
Today is a big day for launches! Slate's Double X and The New York Times' Times Wire both debuted today, along with Carlos Watson's optimistic take on the news of the day, The Stimulist.
Watson said he launched his site "to chronicle the historic shifts we're seeing everywhere from finance to media,... [FishBowlNY]
The Stimulist Puts Another Nail In Snark's Coffin - Posted May 12, 2009
Today is a big day for launches! Slate's Double X and The New York Times' Times Wire both debuted today, along with Carlos Watson's optimistic take on the news of the day, The Stimulist.
Watson said he launched his site "to chronicle the historic shifts we're seeing everywhere from finance to media,... [FishBowlNY]
Online Women's Mag Double X Launches - Posted May 12, 2009
Way back in November, Slate chairman and editor-in-chief Jacob Weisberg told us about the three ladies that would be helming his newest spin-off venture, online women's magazine Double X.
Today the co-editors, Emily Bazelon, Meghan O'Rourke and Hanna Rosin, managing editor Jessica Grose (previously from Gawker female-centric blog Jezebel) and publisher Peggy... [FishBowlNY]
Gazing Into the Kristol Ball: Thinking Outside the NYT Op-Ed Replacement Box - Posted February 5, 2009
Over at Slate Jack Shafer thinks the perfect person to replace Bill Kristol's space on the New York Times op-ed page is no one! (Shafer says he'd be astonished if Kristol ever spent more than 45 minutes on a column.) Instead Shafer would prefer to see it as some... [FishBowlNY]
Online Dispatches: EW, Forbes.com, Double X - Posted December 12, 2008
Keeping an eyes on some changes occurring online this week:
Will EW go online only? (On a side note we imagine this will be a recurring theme in 2009 media land). Gawker was speculating on rumors that the magazine, whose print circulation has plummeted this year, may move the... [FishBowlNY]
Post Election News Slump Hitting Politico, TheAtlantic.com Thriving - Posted November 21, 2008
There's been plenty of talk the last few weeks about a post-election viewer slump both online and on television. Over at 538.com Nate Silver has taken his pollster powers and applied them to politically-oriented websites to see how these sites are faring now that the election has concluded. The results... [FishBowlNY]
You're Fired!: The Big Money to Publish Layoff Emails - Posted October 30, 2008
The amount of layoffs and foldings that have occurred in the last week have left our heads spinning a bit. Here's the thing, we all knew that print was a dying animal, but it's probably safe to say nobody knew it was going to die so fast! Anyway, the... [FishBowlNY]
NBC and the Olympics: The Dow Jones of Sap? - Posted August 11, 2008
The truth is that after Friday we mostly forgot to watch the Olympics (also known as Michael Phelps goes to Beijing, or alternately, President Bush gives new meaning to the term lame duck). Anyway, for those of you also missing the colorful (delayed) action the folks at Slate who... [FishBowlNY]
NYT: In the Market For a Little Deja Vu? - Posted August 4, 2008
Last week Gawker pointed out that something about the New York Times was sounding awfully familiar, as in, haven't we read this before? We had the exact same experience this Sunday upon opening the Style section and glancing the article about how Manhattan is currently being overrun by foreigners taking... [FishBowlNY]
NYT: In the Market For a Little Deja Vu? - Posted August 4, 2008
Last week Gawker pointed out that something about the New York Times was sounding awfully familiar, as in, haven't we read this before? We had the exact same experience this Sunday upon opening the Style section and glancing the article about how Manhattan is currently being overrun by foreigners taking... [FishBowlNY]



