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AOL Looks To Trim One Third Of Staff - Posted 3 days, 7 hours ago
It looks like last week's layoffs were only the tip of ice berg for AOL. As predicted, the company said today that it was looking to trim its workforce by one-third as it prepares to spin off from its parent company, Time Warner, next month. Reports say AOL is looking for up... [FishBowlNY]

Time Editor Tyrangiel To Lead Bloomberg's BusinessWeek - Posted 5 days, 8 hours ago
This morning, Bloomberg LP named Time magazine's deputy managing editor Josh Tyrangiel as the next editor of the recently acquired BusinessWeek. Tyrangiel, who was also the managing editor of Time.com, was instrumental in the recent relaunch of the Web site. He will be replacing Stephen Adler who announced that he was stepping... [FishBowlNY]

100 Expected To Be Let Go From AOL Today - Posted November 10, 2009
AOL is expected to cut 100 jobs today, according to various reports. The move comes one week after AOL's parent company Time Warner announced its third quarter earnings and its magazine division, Time Inc., started cutting jobs of its own. However, as Kara Swisher at All Things Digital reports, today's cuts are... [FishBowlNY]

100 Expected To Be Let Go From AOL Today - Posted November 10, 2009
AOL is expected to cut 100 jobs today, according to various reports. The move comes one week after AOL's parent company Time Warner announced its third quarter earnings and its magazine division, Time Inc., started cutting jobs of its own. However, as Kara Swisher at All Things Digital reports, today's cuts are... [FishBowlNY]

Time Warner Earnings: Growth From Networks Can't Offset Publishing Declines - Posted November 4, 2009
As we wait to hear about layoffs coming out of Time Inc. today, we got a chance to look at the magazine publisher's parent Time Warner's third quarter earnings. The company reported a 5 percent decline in revenues compared to the third quarter of last year -- they dropped to $7.1 billion.... [FishBowlNY]

Mrs. Butterworth|AOL's $4.2B Value|Andrew Ross Sorkin|Keller: Decision On Paid Content For NYT Will Come To "Gut Call" - Posted September 30, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cMoment of Zen - Going Rougewww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRon Paul Interview PRNewser: An interview with Mrs. Butterworth, whose been getting into the social media recently. All Things Digital: Time Warner's sale of AOL has been valued at $4.2 billion -- "marked down... [FishBowlNY]

Mrs. Butterworth|AOL's $4.2B Value|Andrew Ross Sorkin|Keller: Decision On Paid Content For NYT Will Come To "Gut Call" - Posted September 30, 2009
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cMoment of Zen - Going Rougewww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorRon Paul Interview PRNewser: An interview with Mrs. Butterworth, whose been getting into the social media recently. All Things Digital: Time Warner's sale of AOL has been valued at $4.2 billion -- "marked down... [FishBowlNY]

Time Warner May Sell Off Magazines Eventually, Or Not - Posted September 28, 2009
Time Warner is completing its spin-off of AOL later this year, a deal that has led many to speculate that the media company might jettison its Time Inc. magazine division, from which its prestigious media name is derived. Adding to the speculation, last week Gordon Crawford, the managing director of... [FishBowlNY]

Olbermann Names Stelter, O'Reilly & Murdoch The Worst|Andersen Blogs At Time.com|The Cheapest & Most Expensive Mags|Time Warner Gets Ready To Dump AOL|Cronkite Myths: Debunked - Posted August 4, 2009
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy TVNewser: Keith Olbermann targetted Brian Stelter of The New York Times, Bill O'Reilly and News Corp. head Rupert Murdoch on his "World's Worst" segment last night. Time.com Kurt Andersen is blogging over at Time.com this week, where he's writing about Cash... [FishBowlNY]

Sales Team Moves At Bonnier, MSLO - Posted July 29, 2009
There's news of two moves among sales teams at magazine publishers Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and Bonnier Corp. MediaDailyNews reports that MSLO has brought on Janet Balis (left) as executive vice president of media sales and marketing. She will oversee sales across the publishing, broadcast and digital properties and will report to... [FishBowlNY]

Time Warner, MSLO Release Earnings Numbers - Posted July 29, 2009
Two big public media companies, Time Warner Inc. and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia released their second quarter earnings numbers today, with both reporting revenue declines. MSLO said revenues dropped to $57.0 million in the second quarter of of this year, compared to $77.1 million during the same period last year. "Lower revenues... [FishBowlNY]

TV Networks Rely On White Supremacist "Expert"|Daily News Cans Columnist|OK! Losing Major Money|Popular Science Augments Reality On Cover|Should Time Warner Dump Time Inc.? - Posted June 12, 2009
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy TVNewser: As part of their coverage of the Holocaust Museum shooting, television networks and other news organizations have turned to a well-documented white supremacist as an "expert." Gawker: The New York Daily News has laid off Sean Evans, one half... [FishBowlNY]

GalleyCat's Jason Boog On The Menu - Posted June 12, 2009
Jason Boog, from sister blog GalleyCat, joined today's mediabistro.com Morning Media Menu podcast to talk about recent news and current events. Jason and TVNewser's Steve Krakauer discussed new changes to the AP Stylebook and its addition of Twitter, Kindle drama, whether Time Warner should dump Time Inc. and What We Learned... [FishBowlNY]

An Outsourced Newsweekly|ESPN Lays Off 100|Newspaper Editors Secretly Meet|Women's Mags Question Retouching Cover Models|Time Warner Dumps AOL - Posted May 28, 2009
FishbowlLA: Alternative newsweekly New Haven Advocate has outsourced to India. Associated Press: ESPN cut 100 jobs. The Atlantic: Newspaper publishers held a secret meeting today reportedly about how to monetize online content moving forward. New York Times: Women's magazines debate: to retouch or not to retouch? Businessweek: Time Warner broke up with AOL.... [FishBowlNY]

An Outsourced Newsweekly|ESPN Lays Off 100|Newspaper Editors Secretly Meet|Women's Mags Question Retouching Cover Models|Time Warner Dumps AOL - Posted May 28, 2009
FishbowlLA: Alternative newsweekly New Haven Advocate has outsourced to India. Associated Press: ESPN cut 100 jobs. The Atlantic: Newspaper publishers held a secret meeting today reportedly about how to monetize online content moving forward. New York Times: Women's magazines debate: to retouch or not to retouch? Businessweek: Time Warner broke up with AOL.... [FishBowlNY]

How Much Did Your Favorite Fortune 500 Media Company Lose? - Posted April 21, 2009
The story of today is The New York Times Co.'s disastrous first quarter results, but it's not the only media outlet dealing with immense loses. Over at paidContent.org (which cashed in during 2008), Rory Maher put together a list of media companies on the Fortune 500 list that struggled during the... [FishBowlNY]

Media Stocks: The State of the Top 13 - Posted April 3, 2009
The stock of the media world mimicked the improvement on Wall Street in general (hello, Dow 8,000). Time Warner got drilled, but almost every other of the top 13 gained ground. Let's hope it keeps up.... [FishBowlNY]

TMZ Sued Over Simpson Book - Posted June 20, 2007
TMZ got slapped with a lawsuit over the posting of the O.J. Simpson book. An excerpt from If I Did It appeared on the website (lifted straight from Pirate Bay) and the federal bankruptcy trustee filed an emergency motion, seeking to force the site to pull the book, which they did.... [FishBowlLA]