Miles Jennings is CEO of Mediabistro and its parent CognoGroup. He previously founded and led Recruiter.com through its NASDAQ listing, executing more than 10 acquisitions over nearly a decade as CEO and COO.
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Shane Hegde put his personal cell number in the New York Times to make the case. We sat down with him to find out if it holds up.
On March 22, Shane Hegde published a handwritten letter in the New York Times and listed his personal cell number at the bottom. He invited anyone who disagreed with him to call. His position: AI…
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There's no shortage of writing career advice out there. Most of it is written by someone who has thought carefully about what would sound useful, rather than someone who has actually been in the room.…
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In this article: Writing Magazines | Submission Databases | Industry Newsletters | Literary Websites | Premier Literary Magazines | Nonfiction Resources Whether you're submitting your first short story or navigating your tenth year as a…
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LinkedIn drove 18 subscribers to our media careers newsletter. The Substack recommendation network drove 10x that. Three months ago, we brought Mediabistro to Substack. We migrated 100,000+ subscribers, intentionally cut 30,000 of them, and ended up…
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Edward Hertzman founded Sourcing Journal, sold it to Penske Media, got promoted to EVP of all Fairchild Media titles, and left to do it all over again with Athletech News. His framework for launching B2B…
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Plaid, the $8 billion fintech infrastructure company, announced it had acquired This Week in Fintech (TWIF), a newsletter operation with roughly 200,000 subscribers. The deal puts one of fintech's most widely read independent publications under…
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There is no single path into media. That's the first thing you learn when you talk to enough people who've made it. One future TV anchor drove across the country in her mom's car, sleeping…
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In this article: Why Briefs Broke | How to Thrive When the Brief Is Thin | Three Mistakes That Make It Worse | FAQ A global study by the BetterBriefs Project surveyed more than 1,700…
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Simmy Kustanowitz has a résumé that reads like a guided tour of mid-2000s to mid-2020s television. Writer on Total Request Live. Development executive across truTV, TBS, and TNT, where he oversaw shows like At Home…
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If you work in media, journalism, entertainment, publishing, or digital content and feel like the rules keep changing, you are not imagining it. Attention is fragmented. Career paths are no longer linear. Job titles are…
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