Annnnd, layoffs at the Columbia Journalism Review cap a remarkably awful layoff-filled week for New York print journalists. Stay safe out there, everyone.
Could the LA Times Be Sold?
In your Murdoch-free Tuesday media roundup: speculation on the LAT's future, Time magazine gets more paywall-y, everyone wants to work for CJR, Jay Rosen pontificates, and a labor journalism spat.
Vice Blows Entire Paycheck on Drugs
In your retro Thursday media column: Vice is having a Halloween party, laid-off journalists get an award, 'Netflix for magazines' is doomed to fail, and the Wall Street Journal is finally as prestigious as USA Today.
Fight The Power Of Times Rap Name Discrimination!
Ring the alarm: the paper of record is treating rappers separately and unequally! In a surprisingly fresh piece of analysis, the Columbia Journalism Review unearths the NYT's sneaky tendency to "birth-name" rappers more than other musicians. (They also coin the term "birth-name," which I like, although for the sake…
Jim Cramer, Untouchable
Financial news network CNBC is in a tiff with the financial magazine Barron's, according to a ponderous but awesome story by the Columbia Journalism Review's Dean Starkman. Barron's decided to investigate CNBC meal ticket Jim Cramer, host of "Mad Money," and the network got pissed. The Barron's story began as a look…
Media Bubble: YOU Are Kind Of Creeping Us Out
Media Bubble: Among The Dead and Dying
• Ailing humorist Art Buchwald stays alive long enough to make his 5 millionth Medicaid joke. [WP]
• No one at Time Warner has ever heard the phrase "throwing good money after bad." [WSJ]
• CJR finds a way to make even gossip boring. This essay will make you long for the sweet embrace of the grave. [CJR]
Softball: A Quadruple-Header, of Sorts
Several games worth talking about this week:
Softball: 'New Yorker' vs. 'CJR'
In tonight's big media softball faceoff, Coach Dellinger's well-oiled New Yorker machine will take on the scrappy watchdogs of Columbia Journalism Review, who we believe will actually be playing rather than just umpiring.
Who owns what
A confession: we can't keep up with the media congomerates, and are always forgetting who owns Us Weekly. Here are a set of links to useful data and charts. Still missing: a database which, when a magazine title or TV network is plugged in to the search box, produces the parent company in the result.
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