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Gmail and Google chat services are both down right now, which means we feel effectively cut off from the world. But weird things are happening...we are getting emails on our Blackberry and Gmail Notifier is working. What are you experiencing? Hopefully it will all come back soon. We don't know how much more we can take.
Update: Looks like gchat is also still functioning on Blackberries. So, there's that.
Twitter's Down: Denial Of Service Attack Strikes Again
We've also heard that Facebook is experiencing problems, too. Has an influx of Twitter users jammed Facebook, or are they facing an attack, too? Without Twitter and Facebook, how are you finding out what friends are thinking today? False Media Rumor Rocks Twitter
Back on January 9, Hearst Corp. announced it was putting the Post-Intelligencer on the block and would shut the paper down if a buyer wasn't found within 60 days. Friday's initial TheMediaIsDying post about the P-I, however, indicated the paper was closing ahead of schedule. FishbowlNY spoke with Post-Intelligencer managing editor David McCumber shortly after the message first appeared on Twitter, and he told us TheMediaIsDying's original report about his paper was false "as so many rumors are on Twitter." So, we pieced together how the inaccurate story made its way on to myriad media watchers' screens. Page Six Magazine EIC Only Staffer To Remain As Weekly Goes Quarterly
However, it's not all heartbreak once the mag moves to its quarterly schedule just after Valentine's Day... Confirmed: Reader's Digest Association to Cut 8 Percent of Workforce
In addition to staff reductions, other initiatives RDA will be implementing as part of the plan to cut cost and stave off further layoffs include the suspension of 401K matching and the introduction of unpaid time off in fiscal '09 and '10. "We hope and expect that most of these moves will be temporary," RDA CEO and president Mary Berner said in the statement. According to a company spokesperson, no magazine closings are being announced as part of this plan. Whether they're on the way as part of some other plan remains to be seen. Full release after the jump. We Hear: Reader's Digest To Lay Off 300
A majority of the cuts will likely affect several of RDA's foreign publications, "but I think there will definitely be some cuts" at RDA's Pleasantville, NY headquarters, the source says. A corporate communications representative at Reader's Digest Association was unavailable for official comment today, but we'll update you with additional information as it comes in. In a November 2008 report on the company's operating performance, Reader's Digest described the first quarter of its 2009 fiscal year as "challenging for the company." Recent news hasn't been all bad, however, and new products aren't on hold, even with layoffs on the way: Consumer Reports In Talks To Buy Consumerist Blog Amid More Gawker Media Cuts
The consumer watchdog blog would be a natural acquisition for Consumer Reports. Two weeks ago, Popken told PC World he was in "preliminary negotiations, but things look good" regarding a purchase, adding that "the prospect is a good name everyone will be happy with." So, which three Gawker Media employees learned last night that they'd been let go? Which Jezebels Went Part-Time; Denton on Gawker Cuts
(L-R: Megan Carpentier, Tracie Egan, and Sadie Stein) In the wake of Gawker Media's latest layoffs, we're hearing more about what went down at the blog network. Sources with inside knowledge of today's cuts report that editors Megan Carpentier, Tracie Egan, and associate editor Sadie Stein are the Jezebel staffers who've been made part-time employees. Jezebel managing editor Anna Holmes would only tell FishbowlNY that three editors had their hours cut, declining to confirm their names. Holmes said there "shouldn't be much less" content on the blog following the staff cuts and status changes. Carpentier posted to Twitter at approximately 11 p.m. Monday night, seemingly in reference to her modified employment status: Another One Bites The Dust: Harvard Mag 02138 'Suspends Publication'
Just three months ago, Manhattan Media launched a high-profile effort to redesign the magazine. What went wrong? 'Major' Layoffs at Time Inc.'s Southern Progress Magazines
Hardin declined to specify how many employees have been affected or which titles lost staff, saying only that "several business and edit positions were affected." Birmingham Weekly, which shares a hometown with Southern Progress' Alabama headquarters, reported yesterday that the Time Inc. division "laid off as many as 30 employees."
Though they corroborate what media reporter Keith Kelly's been hearing about a "new round of layoffs" for Time Inc., cuts at Southern Progress might seem to be at odds with the "top structural initiatives" recently outlined by Time Warner CEO and president Jeff Bewkes in his most recent financial results report when he said the company would be "increasingly focus[ing] on our goal to create and manage high-quality branded content, across multiple platforms around the world, at the highest returns possible for our stockholders." At the same time, signs were there... PreviouslyFirst on FishbowlNY.com: Tomorrow Is the New York Sun's Last Day We'll Come Together Fine...All We Need is Just a Little Patience You Never Call When You're Supposed To! TV Guide Lays Off EIC, ME, Seven Other Edit Staffers Judge Dismisses Most of Dan Rather Lawsuit Against CBS UPDATED: 'Forty to 50' Laid Off at Nielsen Business Media Murdoch Makes Bid for Newsday? BREAKING: Ellie-Nominated Articles, Writers The Breakdown John Sykes Out At MTV Networks Breaking - Sniper In Greenwich Village? WCBS, Fox News: Spitzer To Resign Gov. Spitzer Involved In Prostitution Ring: NY Times Scoop Live Blog: The Roger Clemens Congressional Hearing Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion For Yahoo Jon Stewart Won't Host Oscars Unless Strike Is Settled Has The Metro Found A Buyer? (And Is It The Gray Lady?) Controversial Golfweek Editor Fired The News Corp. Chemical Explosion: An Exercise In Irony CBS Interactive Lays Off 20 Plus Breaking News: Layoffs At CBSNews.com Colbert To Perform Live Show At UCB Theater WGA East and ABC Reach News Writers Agreement Bam! Emeril Leaves Food Network CBS News Writers Vote To Strike GE to Decide NBC Universal's Fate After Beijing Olympics Bolivian President to Appear on The Daily Show Dan Rather Files $70 Million Lawsuit Against CBS Exclusive: Alexis Debat Will ''Fight These Alegations In Court'' Breaking: Karl Rove Resigns From White House It's Official: Whoopi Joining The View Paula Zahn Out @ CNN Less Than 24 Hours After Campbell Brown's Arrival UPDATE: mediabistro.com Sold For $23M Breaking: mediabistro.com Sold For $23M Dow Jones Issues Statement Denying Report Of Sale To Rupe Finally: Murdoch Buys Dow Jones. Or Maybe Not. Breaking: Live Earth Brazil Not Cancelled NYC Power Outage Rocks East Side Laura 'J.T. Leroy' Albert Found Guilty Of Fraud Former E! Correspondent Suffers Heart Attack During Mighty Heart Screening Breaking: ABC News To Axe 35 Staffers In Restructuring Braunstein Trial Update: Former WWD Writer Sentenced To 20 Years To Life Breaking: GMA Shuts Down Offices After Receiving Letter Mentioning Anthrax; NYPD Investigating Finally: Dennis Sells Maxim, Stuff, Blender Breaking: Braunstein Trial Verdict: 'Guilty' Breaking: Lockhart Steele To Leave Gawker For Curbed ABC News Journos Killed In Iraq Rosie Out at The View, Post-Matrix Rant Pulitzer Prize Winning New Yorker Halberstam Killed In Cali Car Wreck VT Killer Mailed Package To NBC UPDATE: Shots Fired In CNN Atlanta Building Nielsen Business Media CEO Krakoff Dies Dennis Publishing Puts Maxim, Blender, Stuff On Block Official: Bonnier Wins Time Inc. Bid, Joins New York Publishing World Time Inc. Layoffs: 'Two Dozen' Developing: Significant Layoffs in Works at VNU Update: Breaking: Yankees Pitcher Feared Dead In UES Plane Crash Plane Crashes Into Building At 71st & York Breaking: Metro US Editor Axed Dwell Editor Resigns After 'Fundamental Change In Magazine's Mission' Breaking: James Brown Son-In-Law, Hip-Hop Entrepreneur, New UN Ambassador Wanted In Rape Case Valerie Plame, Husband File Suit Against Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, 'Scooter' Libby Baseball Writer/Reporter/Hall-of-Famer Peter Gammons Suffers Aneurysm Spin Editor Andy Pemberton Resigns Breaking: CBS Makes Rather Exit Official Breaking: Pemberton Out At Spin Breaking: Time Inc. Names Kelly Managing Editor Stuff's Jellinek Replaces Maxim's Needham Webby Winners: Google, Flickr, MySpace, NPR, Cuban, Friedman |
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