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more about #hearst more comments → triplethreat: Really a masterful series of insights here. Maybe I just set my sights too high after that great party post yesterday. Then again, maybe I didn't. Som... more » ihatetwitter: I hear there's an InStyle Wii demo. Quick, catch those bracelets! Ah, magazines!!! more » GlasgowRose: Ha: "Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp..." Appreciate Murdoch's not in the mag biz, but still qualifies as a veiled swipe in ... more » Magister: I only know what's in the post and under the link and yes, my initial instinct was to make a Pathfinder joke. But I don't see why this couldn't compl... more » Gabriel Snyder: You shouldn't let the horrible buzz words make you too bearish on the e-Reader versions of magazines. What magazine people are good at -- making prett... more » sweetpickles: I feel like we're going back to the future with all this stuff. I don't think anyone's going to pay for digital mags unless they sell it in bundled pa... more » LoveHandles: With less staffers, perhaps Current TV will have less of a chance of getting it's staff embroiled in international nuclear affairs? #media more » TheBusinessGuy: With Drew Schutte, Conde has a smart, web-savvy guy running digital--finally. Let's hope that he, like Hearst, has a war chest. Let's also note that... more » Magister: The Ombudsman wrote a Sesame Street piece about a Sesame Street piece. Unfortunately, nobody who was offended will ever hear of it. #media more » iantenna: good riddance i say, save for the lost jobs. the chronicle has been a shitstain of a paper for years, and an oddly conservative one to boot, consideri... more » TabithaIapetus: I notice that sign is not on... So is California closed now? more » RonMwangaguhunga: He missed a perfect opportunity to declare the New York Times cafeteria eating area hot, flat and crowded. more » Foster Kamer: You know what goes good with Fried Chicken? Orangina. Meanwhile, Blue Ribbon > Popeyes > NYT > KFC. And if we wanna get the South in here, Blue Ribbon... more » iplaudius: No one made the obligatory "pearls before swine" comment? My, how times have changed (he says, casting another strand). more » macbeach: Whole story is fishy. They aren't savvy enough at SFGate to know about Google cache? Why not just leave it out there as a teaser and announce that f... more » -
#media
The New iTunes for Magazines (Or an Irrelevant Venture) Is Here!
Today, four prestigious magazine publishers, and News Corp, officially announced their new "digital storefront" for magazines and stuff. Buy it and put it on your E-reader! Are you sick of E-readers yet? You will be! And you'll be using one. More » -
#mediacrack
Hearst Is Amazingly Not Broke
In your woebegone Wednesday media column: Hearst gets money, layoffs at Current TV, Conde Nast gets internet religion, and Sesame Street characters are the swing votes in Fox News' war for righteousness. More » -
#printisdead
Billionaire Vulture's Newspaper Betrayal
It's a breathtaking double-cross, even by San Francisco standards: A newspaper left for dead by a philanthropist billionaire, who, in partnership with a university, public radio and even perhaps the New York Times, has transferred his affections to the Web. More » -
#mediacrack
Hobo New York Times Cafeteria: Almost as Good as Popeye's
In your buttermilk-battered Wednesday media column: the NYT cafeteria gets a sterling review, Jack Shafer is a night-wandering insomniac, Graydon Carter blackballs restaurateurs, and citizen journalism pays off (for somebody), and Hearst rents a fresh bachelor pad. More » -
#newspapers
San Francisco Chronicle Wants You to Pay For Phil Bronstein's Pearls of Wisdom
These are desperate times for newspapers. Experimentation abounds. For the San Francisco Chronicle this means trying to charge for their fancy (but relatively cheap to duplicate) columnists and giving away less-glamorous (but expensive) reporting. More » -
#mediacrack
If Newspapers Die, It Won't Be Because of Donald Trump's Lackeys
In your merry Monday media column: Hearst Magazines is not dying quite so quickly as others (news!), the New York Times wants more of your money, a thing happens at 'Morning Joe,' Sun-Times people invite Bill Rancic to suck it, and more: More » -
#protocelebrities
Lydia Hearst Goes Topless In Classy, European Fashion
Internet fameball competition was already intense before the recession and subprime celebrity crisis. Now it's gone cutthroat. And Lydia Hearst, never shy about exposing flesh, will not be forgotten so, hey, here are her tits.
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#printisdead
Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
Terminal patients often suffer colorful delusions. But none is as cruel as the fantasy Amazon.com has kindled among dying ink-stained wretches, who believe a magical electronic reading device will cure what ails magazines and newspapers. More » -
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#recessionomics
Magazine Readers Keen To Not Starve
Everyone else is cutting circulation, but Food Network Magazine expects to ride the whole "I can't afford restaurants but would like to still eat" meme to 1.1 million copies, triple the current level. More » -
#rumormonger
Esquire Is Getting Nervous
Esquire's ad revenue dropped 22% in the first quarter, which actually put it above average. But we hear that the magazine's staff, and its corporate overlords, are on edge. There was a meeting yesterday [UPDATED]... More » -
#printisdead
Billionaire Wants To Forge Nation's Largest Nonprofit Newspaper
Wow, some nutty investor is actually buying into that harebrained scheme to turn the money-bleeding San Francisco Chronicle into a (purposely) nonprofit paper. More » -
#mediacrack
Generous Offer of Nothing For Newspaper Was Refused!
In your finally Friday media column: a paltry offer for the Seattle P-I, Jake Tapper's a twit, arm fetish redux, Baba Wawa looks towards the end, and newspapers....you know: More » -
#printisdead
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Dies Tomorrow
In a move that surprises no one, Hearst finally announced today that the Seattle P-I will stop printing tomorrow. What took so long? More » -
#sanfranciscochronicle
Who Would Fund America's Largest Nonprofit Newspaper?
San Francisco Chronicle journalists are trying to talk investors into buying the foundering daily newspaper and restructuring it as a nonprofit, writes the SF Appeal. Who are the ink-stained wretches courting? More » -
#printisdead
At Bleeding Newspaper, Management Has Its Way With Union
You know when a labor union is proposing to eliminate paid vacation and cut pay 5 percent, things will not end well for workers. So it is at the San Francisco Chronicle. More » -
#mediacrack
College Papers Stage Sympathy Die-In
In your philosophical Friday media column: arm-twisting at the San Francisco Chronicle, intellectual thuggery at the NAACP, body-slamming of college papers, and death and rebirth of reporters: More » -
#newspapers
Seattle Paper Migrates Self, Pay To Internet
Hearst is preparing to take the Seattle Post-Intelligencer online-only, the largest newspaper to make such a move. Pay and benefits are coming along for the ride. More » -
#rumormonger
San Antonio and Houston Papers to Merge?
We heard a downright bizarre unconfirmed rumor that Hearst's flailing newspaper division is considering merging the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News into one operation. Bizarre, we say, for two reasons: More » -
#ebooks
Esquire Editor Admires the Kindle, or At Least the Hearst Replacement
Esquire editor David Granger loves the Amazon Kindle. Sort of. The e-book reader gives him hope that Internet-shortened attention spans will lengthen enough to spark a renaissance in books and magazines. He's utterly delusional. More » -
#ebooks
Hearst's E-Reader: The Last Stand of a Doomed Industry
Dear media companies: Please stop trying to innovate. You're lousy at it. Hearst's supposed "Kindle killer," an electronic reader for magazines, is just the latest in a series of debacles from the moribund print-media business. More »
